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+Definitions (should be deliberately said in a funny voice whilst making finger-quotes):
+* "evil" - trying to make money in a way that some people don't like.
+* "common" - deliberately fuzzy way of describing a product or service used by a large portion of AMO visitors.
+* "spy" - word to describe any communication that is "evil".
 Things that need to be removed from AMO, or more tightly regulated:
 #Extensions that use remote content in an unsafe way.
-#*eg. BetterShopper (evals XMLHttpReqeust reponse to get currency data)
+#*eg. BetterShopper (evals XMLHttpRequest reponse to get currency data)
 #Extensions that include binary components, and do not provide source that can be viewed/compiled by reviewers.
 #Extensions that require additional software to be installed outside of Firefox.
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 #Extensions that are useful only to specific communities.
 #*FriendzForLife ForumNavigator
-#*Again, fuzzy exception, eg. Slashdot extensions.
+#*Again, "common" exception, eg. Slashdot extensions.
 Reasons people upload these types of addons:
 #They're unaware of security issues.
 #They don't want to reveal secrets/break NDAs, see also 5.
-#AMO is great marketing for their main product, or they're unaware of other extension registration methods. [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Adding_Extensions_using_the_Windows_Registry]
+#AMO is great marketing for their main product, or they're unaware of [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Adding_Extensions_using_the_Windows_Registry|other extension registration methods].
 #They're "evil".
 #Dealing with the XPInstall whitelist is a lot of hassle, and AMO gives you an update URL for free.