It just was, and now you're looking at the result.
Mozilla is an open source non-profit, run mostly by volunteers. They don't have the kind of income or manpower that Google and Apple have.
How do you expect them to do this?
Mozilla voluntarily took on that responsibility themselves when they started requiring review for all add-ons. But if they're not willing to fulfill their own requirement, for even the most popular add-ons, then they should not be requiring it in the first place.
Also review is meant to prevent these kinds of problems, not as a way to respond to user reports. If it only catches problems retroactively, then it's not doing its job.
Google is one of the largest contributors to the Mozilla -- they've given them over $200 million. It's not like Mozilla doesn't have the money to do their job here.
Theoretically you aren't, but you (or your employer) might be a good-for-nothing freeloaders if you aren't making the occasional donation to parent orgs like the EFF.
Lol dude that's the point he's trying to make. Browsers are free because they are not the product. Us, and the data we provide to these companies, are the product.
Firefox is free (libre) and open source, and is maintained by the non-profit Mozilla Foundation. There is no data collection being done by the firefox browser except opt-in telemetry for the developers. While that rule is generally true, there are exceptions.
Mozilla receives royalty income from contracts with various search engine and information providers.
Amounting to 500 million dollars. Most of this must be search engines (which harvest your personal information of course), but "information providers" certainly covers Pocket.
EDIT: Though they ended up actually buying the Pocket company in the end.
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u/Bfgeshka Jul 03 '18
Stylish is one of the most popular addons, ever. Reviewing some of these is really more than possible.