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Since all add-ons on addons.mozilla.org are reviewed prior to being published, there is trust that add-ons hosted there are not malicious and therefore safe to install (providing the user has consented, of course). Since they are safe to install, they are safe to sync. | Since all add-ons on addons.mozilla.org are reviewed prior to being published, there is trust that add-ons hosted there are not malicious and therefore safe to install (providing the user has consented, of course). Since they are safe to install, they are safe to sync. | ||
The second reason is ease of implementation. We eventually want to | The second reason is ease of implementation. We eventually want to support syncing of any add-on. However, there are technical challenges in our way: | ||
* Data storage - Add-ons can be quite large, possibly more than you are allowed to store in Sync's servers. The additional storage of add-on data could also use up a lot more space on Sync's servers, causing the cost of operation of this (free) service to go up (the problem is compounded by the fact that data is encrypted on the client, so we can't de-dupe identical add-ons on the server). | * Data storage - Add-ons can be quite large, possibly more than you are allowed to store in Sync's servers. The additional storage of add-on data could also use up a lot more space on Sync's servers, causing the cost of operation of this (free) service to go up (the problem is compounded by the fact that data is encrypted on the client, so we can't de-dupe identical add-ons on the server). | ||