gildas-lormeau
Missing from addon store + Strange unofficial re-uploads
I noticed that a while back this addon randomly disappeared from the Firefox addon store (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/lazyloadify/) and while looking around I found a bunch of really suspicious and odd addons on the Firefox addon store that just one for one copy this repo without changing anything.
list of addons I found stealing/copying this repo (there's probably more but these where just the ones I found):
- https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/custom-lazyload/
- https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/efficient-video-loader/
- https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/fastload-images/
- https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/iframe-lazyloader/
- https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/image-lazyloader/
- https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/infinite-scroll-optimizer/
- https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/lazyload-analytics/
- https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/lazyload-pro/
- https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/mediaload-optimizer/
- https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/medialoader-customizer/
- https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/quickload-media/
- https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/scroll-optimize/
- https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/smartlazyload/
- https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/smartload/
- https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/speedloader-plus/
- https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/swiftload/
- https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/video-lazyloader/
- https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/lazyload-plus/ (This one isn't up anymore but a bunch of the other addons here reference this one and I managed to find a search engine cache of the description for this one which confirms it was up at some point)
Only 2 of these even link back to this repo (the oldest ones) while the rest don't.
I was wondering as to why this addon (the original real one linked in this repo) went down and also if you or anyone else has any clue/idea as to why all these weird re-uploads exist.
Thank you very much for the info! I was not aware of the existence of all these clones... I do not recommend to use them.
Actually, I removed the extension from the store because I was not maintaining it and I was afraid it could break pages, because it's a bit hacky. In fact, it's more or less a “proof of concept”. Maybe I should work on it again?
yes please. was very useful and appreciative of your work and any further updates would be awesome
Actually, I removed the extension from the store because I was not maintaining it
Ah good to know. I still have it installed and Firefox just displayed a big warning without much info:
This extension is restricted for violating Mozilla’s policies and has been disabled. You can enable it, but this may be risky.
LazyLoadify is restricted for violating Mozilla policies Why did this happen? This extension, theme, or plugin violates Mozilla's add-on policies.
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