Mozilla stops distribution of WOT addon
Here is the blog entry of the Journalist Mike Kuketz, explaining in detail how he uncovered the fraud, unfortunately only in German. This includes samples of the questionable GET and POST Requests, as well as a link to a commit to the WOT sources on GitHub, which introduced the necessary changes ...<p><a href="https://www.kuketz-blog.de/wot-addon-wie-ein-browser-addon-seine-nutzer-ausspaeht/" rel="nofollow">https://www.kuketz-blog.de/wot-addon-wie-ein-browser-addon-s...</a><p>The commit referenced in the blog:<p><a href="https://github.com/mywot/firefox-xul/commit/0df107cae8ac18901bd665acace4b369c244a3f9" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mywot/firefox-xul/commit/0df107cae8ac1890...</a>