I’m just a regular user. I’m not affiliated with the creator of the extension.

It came to my attention while updating my plugins, that one of my favorite plugins, Block Cloudflare MITM Attack!, is being reviewed bombed by trolls and shills.

I don’t have evidence, but this seems coordinated.

Every day various “users” give 1 star to the extension.

Now if that was just a bad extension or a bug or something, I’d be fine.

But all they do is give a star that says nothing or says something vague in multiple languages.

I tried contacting Mozilla but they did nothing about it. When it’s obviously “downvoted” just because it works as intended.

All this extension does is to block Clouflare MITM, as the name says, and pretty reliably.

Now, if you think Cloudflare is a good company that deals honestly with private data, that’s up for debate.

But Cloudflare is a MITM. This is how Cloudflare works and using it gives them (and your website users) sensitive private data.

Cloudflare Privacy Policy shows they are in the business of selling personal data, some websites protected with Cloudflare can’t be accessed without giving full java-script access and cookies, is hostile to Tor users and also Crimeflare

For those who don’t know, this extension is an old fork extension of the same name

If you guys can help me spread on r/privacy subreddit that would be nice, too.

I really hope this gets traction, also would be nice to see more users blocking Cloudflare and (hopefully) Imunify.

  • @AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
    3•2 years ago

    I love how their entire argument is that they don’t trust the author of this extension. Meanwhile, it’s open source and the codebase is small. Also, Firefox tells you the permissions it uses, which in reality means the extension specifically requests those permissions and has access to nothing it doesn’t list, so unless you also don’t trust Firefox, what’s the problem?

    • @rockford@lemmy.mlOP
      2•2 years ago

      Exactly. There is no way this is just users honestly reporting their experience. They have an ideological or financial interest in downvoting such small and harmless add-on.

      Probably trolled mostly by the same user(s).