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What happened is Mozilla got a complaint and pulled multiple pay-wall bypassers.

Source:

https://github.com/nextgens/anti-paywall/issues/109

"It appears that your Add-on violates the Firefox Add-on Distribution Agreement and the Conditions of Use. Both prohibit Add-ons that violate the law. Your Add-on appears to be designed and promoted to allow users to circumvent paywalls, which is illegal.

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We are responding to a specific complaint that named multiple paywall bypassing add-ons. It did not target only your add-on."



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