Fake, Copy, Maleware addons

[anon88036461]

Hi
As I sent several emails to managers about fake review, It’s seems some people going to copy addons and just make afew UI changes and release with their names, then using huge fake reviews to go to top of pages.
I reporting them several times but it’s seems Mozilla is very slow or doesn’t remove them.
Lookat this addon fir example:
Huge 5 stars reviews without text, afew texts are 1 star and tell it is fake, copy and also maleware!
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adremover-for-firefox

It’s seems Mozilla should start reviewing addons same as ago.
Anyway I remember their treatments with my addon.
I hope Mozilla change its treatment someday!

Sincerely

[juraj.masiar]

Quite amazing actually - the add-on got 252,474 users after only 7 weeks
I wonder who those are - maybe worth banning those users from statistics also in other add-ons.
For me the number of users is important metric to determine “safety” of an add-on and now I can see how much wrong it can actually be.

I would say add-ons like this could be easily found using a simple query measuring the users base growth, maybe in correlation with number of reviews - add-on with 200k users cannot have 4 reviews!

[anon88036461]

here is another

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adkiller-adblocker