Chrome battles with it a lot, see eg. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36146278
I find Mozilla's process to be quite reassuring, but would be good to have alternative "addon stores" that also have a review process
It appears the issues were found using simple heuristics (e.g they detected string pagead2.googlesyndication.com in a comment) and these detections weren't then manually reviewed as claimed, which is wasting everybody's time.
For example, during basically any YouTube copyright or moderation controversy, there is always "manual review" of videos that have obviously been caught in automated systems that in case of actual manual review, would be cleared of problems by any reasonable human.
For high-profile extensions, the impact is higher for both false negatives and false positives. So they should receive more attention.
I do not know anything about Mozilla's internal procedures regarding add-on approvals. However, for a high profile extension like uBO/uBO Lite... it should either require multiple reviewers, or maybe just an escalation to a senior reviewer or something. You should never be a single human error away from a high impact mistake.
Maybe they do that already, I dunno. But it seems hard for me to believe that multiple people approved uBO Lite's yoinking.
Extensions are SUCH a crucial part of FF's appeal. And uBO/uBO is arguably the most important of them all.
The fact that a review process exists might be reassuring, but the way they went about it surely isn’t.
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/197#issueco...
They just haven't used that capability responsibly... Yet.
You address the former when it seems like the issue is the later.