(Cross posted from the add-ons blog ) From time to time, the Add-ons Team makes changes to our policies in order to provide more clarity for developers, improve privacy and security for users, and to adapt to the evolving needs of the ecosystem. Today we’d like to announce another such update, to ma…

Do unlisted Add-ons require a privacy policy? I don’t see a field in the Add-on Developer Hub page to add a specific privacy policy to my unlisted extensions.

I have 3 addons listed on AMO that currently have no privacy policy because they do not collect any data. When I look to add a privacy policy under Manage Authors and License page I see If your add-on transmits any data from the user’s computer, a privacy policy is required that explains what data…

Also, is it correct to state that an add-on “does not collect and share user data” if it uses the Firefox bookmark API or storage API in any way (e.g. to save a URL when the user presses a button)?

@mozkewisch My addon runs on a single (1990s vintage) forum, adding features to it such as identifying new posts. It uses local storage to store ‘context’ from one invocation to the next, e,g. the last displayed post number, and for user preferences. It won’t work at all without this local storage.…

Everyone should calm down :slight_smile:. These policy updates are primarily targeting malicious addons that tracks users or spam addons that are basically an ad for a service with no features. You don’t see this but Firefox addons page is constantly under attack with a huge number of fake/malicio…

You don’t see this but Firefox addons page is constantly under attack with a huge number of fake/malicious addon submissions and these new policy will help fight it. Actually, a lot of people totally do, which is part of why this is so weird looking. It is very, very obvious that this is happenin…

[image] juraj.masiar: in general, if your addon is not used by a huge number of users, it will never be reviewed. I don’t think the number of users is taken into account. And nor should it be - if an add-on is malicious you don’t want to wait till it’s popular. I had to rewrite a section of …

One question: Add-ons must not relax web page security headers, such as the Content Security Policy. Does this include a) addons that are designed to relax security headers, such as CORS Everywhere, and b) addons that require relaxing security headers to be functional, such as an extension addin…

[image] mozkewisch: Add-ons that serve the sole purpose of promoting, installing, loading or launching another website, application or add-on are no longer permitted to be listed on addons.mozilla.org . So all search add-ons are forbidden? What does “installing” a website even mean? And wha…

So don’t stress yourself just yet :slight_smile:. Focus on what’s important and have a nice week! Also your insinuation here is that our extensions are unimportant. Your post was just condescending and discounting our intelligence until then. Adding this sentence rises to the level of being downr…

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mhoye (Mhoye) November 30, 2021, 5:35pm 51

The answers are here: Add-ons Policy Changes 2021 - Q&A

Thanks for your patience.

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