Posted by: Giorgio, NoScript. 2009-05-04
I screwed up. Big time.
Not just with Adblock Plus users but with the Mozilla community at large.I did something extremely wrong, which I will regret forever.
I abused the power and wasted the enormous trust capital gained by the NoScript add-on through the years to prevent Adblock Plus from blocking stuff on four internet domains of mine, without asking an explicit preemptive user consent.This is absolutely inexcusable. Something I would never conceive again for the life of me.
Dear Adblock Plus and NoScript Users, Dear Mozilla Community
http://forums.informaction.com/viewtopic.php?p=2777#p2777
Posted by: Wladimir Palant, Adblock Plus. 2009-05-01
Recently I wrote about how not giving extension developers a good way to earn money might lead to very undesirable effects. The recent events give an impression of the kind of effects we should expect here. This is going to be about the popular NoScript extension which happens to make its money from ads. And to make sure that somebody sees these ads it goes pretty far.
Edit: Added links.
Mozilla Blog No Surprises
Surprises can be appropriate in many situations, but they are not welcome when user security, privacy, and control are at stake. Mozilla is committed to guarding these principles, and we feel that a policy should be adopted that explicitly details our stance on these issues in regard to add-on modifications.
We welcome all constructive feedback and comments on this proposal, preferably in the AMO Newsgroup.
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