Remove "Ant Video Downloader"

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fervi
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Iscritto: 12/31/2014
Ark74

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Iscritto: 07/15/2009

how come?

Latest version is still under a free license:
https://mozzarella.joeyallard.com/extension.php?id=282751

prospero
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Iscritto: 05/20/2022

These seem to be at least two different ants here: "Ant Download Manager" by Joey Allard vs. "Ant Video Downloader" by a company named "ant.com". The latter comes with the explicit prohibition of modifying the software, although the former only works on "Windows platforms".

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloader-player
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/antffw

Ant stories always give me goose bumps anyway.

Ark74

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Iscritto: 07/15/2009

Thank you I was starting to doubt when I read MPL 2.0

So, yeah seems like we were pointing to different things using the same name, ant.com seems problematic.

andyprough
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Iscritto: 02/12/2015

They both seem to require antDM, a proprietary Windows software title, to be installed in order to work.

eric23
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Iscritto: 06/30/2017

At Mozilla's site it says "Source code released under All Rights Reserved." I can't find the source code either.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloader-player/versions/?page=1

Also this article states that it at least once tracked users' browsing habits. https://www.computerworld.com/article/2469893/defending-against-firefox-extensions-that-may-spy-on-you.html

andyprough
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Iscritto: 02/12/2015

Ant Video Downloader has an EULA now that doesn't look very freedom respecting: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloader-player/eula/?utm_content=search&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=addons.mozilla.org

Also, the Mozilla Add-ons page says this only works with Windows software: "Companion application is temporary Windows only, version for other systems is under development." - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloader-player/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search

jxself
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Iscritto: 09/13/2010

This would probably best be reported by clicking on the "Issues" link on the side of the website.