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[–]SuperConductiveRabbi 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

They didn't become greedy in the sense that they were motivated to install spyware. See my comment here: https://saidit.net/s/Internet/comments/jib/free_speech_commenting_extension_dissenter/xrb

They implemented a privacy-invading feature that was hugely requested (and useful), leading to the extension being flagged as being privacy-invading.

The question should be whether or not it's opt-in or opt-out (I think it's the latter), and if it was the former whether Firefox would be wrong to ban it--especially considering they're going to extreme lengths to prevent you from running third party extensions through anything but their walled-garden extension page.

[–]wizzwizz4[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If it was the former, Mozilla wouldn't have banned it (according to their policies).