🏆 Recommended (trophy) badges obscuring 💲 (dollar) badges? – Some features may require payment

[grahamperrin]

Example A

https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/xposer/

• not recommended monitored by Mozilla
• 💲

– I see the hint re: payment so rarely I forgot that existed, but when it's visible, it is both eye-catching and effective:

Example B

https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/video-downloadhelper/

• 🏆
• no hint re: payment

… about

… commercial …

Example C

https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/lastpass-password-manager/

• 🏆
• no hint re: payment
• Free

… about

… premium …

Example D

https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/roboform/

• 🏆
• no hint re: payment

… about

• no hint re: payment
• availability of non-free products or services that increase the functionality of the extension become visible only after clicking away from AMO, to the home page or the support page

(click away from AMO)

 

[willdurand]

@grahamperrin that's because the requires_payment flag is set to false, I guess. Here is an example:

$ curl -s https://addons.mozilla.org/api/v4/addons/addon/video-downloadhelper/ | jq '.requires_payment'
false

Xposer returns true, hence the presence of the badge:

$ curl -s https://addons.mozilla.org/api/v4/addons/addon/xposer/ | jq '.requires_payment'
true

It's up to the developers to define this property in DevHub:

[grahamperrin]

Interesting, thanks.

Found, through trawling https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/search/?page_size=100&recommended=true&sort=created&type=extension, just one of ninety-six Mozilla-recommended extensions that bears the dollar badge:

• https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/1password-x-password-manager/

(full page)


Please, might we have a brief chat in #addons or #addon-reviewers? Riot app running now. (I'd like to draw attention to something else, but not from GitHub.)

[grahamperrin]

Closing, re: William's https://github.com/mozilla/addons/issues/13647 since I found an example of AMO working as expected 👍

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Re: one or more of the developers who either overlook or misinterpret this:

Requires Payment?

This add-on doesn't require any additional payments, paid services or software, or additional hardware.

– I'll follow up in IRC.

[grahamperrin]

Note to self, another: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/languagetool/

… We offer a Premium version which is linked from several places in the add-on. This add-on also works without payment and registration, though. …