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No one's claiming that it's malicious or illegal. It's just that a recommendation engine that recommends an old, unmaintained, copy-cat extension which wasn't exactly great back when it was new and maintained is not very trustworthy -- it's either very bad, or vulnerable to rigging.

It's like a movie recommendation engine that preeminently features Howard the Duck or something. It's not malicious or illegal but its recommendations are probably useless.



Theres no recommendation engine, its all manual. I plan on submitting my silly little 9 line extension (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/t-co-sanitize...) to the recommendation request email at some point.


Completely off-topic but yeah, Howard the Duck is so bad that it is good.


Howard the Duck was A+


I mean, I didn't hate it, but my taste when it comes to movies is so bad that serious cinemas would ban me if they knew what kind of movies I watch.




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