Mozilla removed all Avast extensions for Firefox

If you search for Avast or AVG on the official Mozilla Add-ons website, you may notice that it won't return any results. Avast won't show up either neither SafePrice nor AVG Online Security or SafePrice.

Mozilla seems to have removed these extensions from its Store. So when you try to open one of the Avast or AVG Extensions URLs, an error message is displayed “Oops! We can not find the page ".Mozilla

Extensions are however not included in the black list by Mozilla. Blacklist extensions are removed from users' browsers.

The extensions of Avast and AVG seem to have been removed but not excluded, meaning that the extensions remain installed and enabled in Firefox for the time being.

Mozilla added several dozen Firefox extensions to the blacklist on December 2, which collected user data without their consent, but Avast extensions were not included in that list.

What happened;

Wladimir Palant, developer of AdBlock Plus, he published an analysis of Avast extensions in late October 2018 on his personal website. He discovered that the Avast extension passed data to Avast, which they provided to πληροφορίες από το ιστορικό περιήγησης. Τα δεδομένα που έστελνε η επέκταση δεν ήταν απαραίτητα για την λειτουργία της επέκτασης σύμφωνα με τον Palant.

Η Avast από την άλλη δηλώνει στην σελίδα για την πολιτική απορρήτου ότι χρησιμοποιεί ανώνυμα δεδομένα Clickstream για “άμεσο μάρκετινγκ μεταξύ προϊόντων, για -product και ανα trends from third parties.

Mozilla appears to be in talks with Avast, according to Wladimir Palant. It is possible that Mozilla will add the extensions to its blacklist or ask Avast to make changes to the extensions before resetting them.

Extensions are still available for Chrome so far.

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