{"id":8660,"date":"2019-05-02T08:50:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T15:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/?p=8660"},"modified":"2019-07-12T21:48:26","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T04:48:26","slug":"add-on-policy-and-process-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2019\/05\/02\/add-on-policy-and-process-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Add-on Policy and Process Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our ongoing work to <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/futurereleases\/2019\/02\/19\/keeping-add-ons-safe-for-our-users\/\">make add-ons safer for Firefox users<\/a>, we are updating our Add-on Policy to help us respond faster to reports of malicious extensions. The following is a summary of the changes, which will go into effect on June 10, 2019.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We will no longer accept extensions that contain obfuscated code. We will continue to allow minified, concatenated, or otherwise machine-generated code as long as the source code is included. If your extension is using obfuscated code, it is essential to submit a new version by June 10th that removes it to avoid having it rejected or blocked.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We will also be clarifying our blocking process. Add-on or extension blocking (sometimes referred to as \u201cblocklisting\u201d), is a method for disabling extensions or other third-party software that has already been installed by Firefox users.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We will be blocking extensions more proactively if they are found to be in violation of our policies. We will be casting a wider net, and will err on the side of user security when determining whether or not to block.<\/li>\n<li>We will continue to block extensions for intentionally violating our policies, critical security vulnerabilities, and will also act on extensions compromising user privacy or circumventing user consent or control.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can preview <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en-US\/docs\/Mozilla\/Add-ons\/AMO\/Policy\/Reviews-2019-05\">the policy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en-US\/docs\/Mozilla\/Add-ons\/AMO\/Blocking_Process\">blocking process<\/a> documents and ensure your extensions abide by them to avoid any disruption. If you have questions about these updated policies or would like to provide feedback, please post to this <a href=\"https:\/\/discourse.mozilla.org\/t\/blog-post-add-on-policy-and-process-updates\/38925\">forum thread<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>May 4, 2019 9:09 AM PST update: A certificate expired yesterday and has caused add-ons to stop working or fail to install. This is unrelated to the policy changes. We will be providing updates about the certificate issue in other posts on this blog. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>9:55 am PST: Because a lot of comments on this post are related to the certificate issue, we are temporarily turning off comments for this post.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our ongoing work to make add-ons safer for Firefox users, we are updating our Add-on Policy to help us respond faster to reports of malicious extensions. 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