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I can see your local web servers

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megous ◴[] No.20028564[source]
Other approach is to create a useful extension like:

  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/yt-adblock/reviews/
disguise that you're inserting an iframe linking to your web server into every single page user opens, by naming variables and your tracking domain incorrectly and by waiting for an hour after installation (this may also help avoid automatic tests mozilla is doing) and then just sit back and wait and log all the referers and ip addresses. It's a bit stealthier too, but needs users to visit their local web servers. But you'll also get the full URL.

Nobody will report you or care about the report and users are banned from fixing the extension code locally even if they're able to review it themselves. Bad reviews with some actual text fade away quickly, so if someone warns your other users, it will be pushed out to page 2 after a while by other useful one word or just empty reviews and it will work out.

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modzu ◴[] No.20029998[source]
what is meant by, "users are banned from fixing the extension code locally"? i download and modify other people's extensions all the time.
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1. Mathnerd314 ◴[] No.20030370[source]
Probably the signing requirement for release builds of Firefox.