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Paywall on a crowdsourced open-source add-on

Users are asked to pay for a crowdsourced, open-source tool and see the charge as hypocritical.

Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.

15 public reports · first reported 3 July 2023 · last reported 13 August 2026

Idea report · $19 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Firefox users object to paying for a browser add-on built on crowdsourced titles and open-source code.

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 15 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.