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Downloads redirect to scam and malware sites

Download attempts send users to malicious, scam or ad-network sites instead of a file.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

4 public reports · first reported 28 October 2021 · last reported 16 May 2025

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Several Firefox users say that pressing download on this add-on sends them somewhere unsafe instead of saving a file.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 4 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.