Dial up speed hack

Since the developer had been warned earlier, this was a repeated offense, Mozilla decided that that was the last straw, and blocked the add-on. This is the Web Archive version of the page, for reference. Here's the message that is displayed on the add-on's page. This add-on violates Mozilla's policies as search functionality provided or loaded by the add-on must not collect search terms or intercept searches that are going to a third-party search provider.

The add-on has repeatedly violated these terms despite Mozilla explicitly pointing them out. Now, while Mozilla banning the extension is good, it does pose some difficulties for users who relied on the add-on. Many users have lost access to all the bookmarks they had saved via FVD Speed dial.

And now that the add-on has automatically been removed from the browser, and banned from the store, there is literally no way to install it again. This leaves the user in the lurch, as they have lost their priceless data. Some users are outraged , and are blaming Mozilla for blocking the add-on without warning. They believe that remote disabling of the add-on, is censorship, and that users should have been given the choice whether to use the extension or not.

To make matters worse, Mozilla has locked the discussion with a dry apology. I'm all for security and privacy, and banning the add-on is the right call, but I empathize with the users who lost their data. Have you ever been locked out of accessing your data? Your office work, studies, hobby projects, etc. I experienced a slightly similar issue when OneTab stopped working out of the blue, it was frustrating, but the developer was quick to fix the problem with an update.

Maybe, by displaying a warning that educates the user about the malicious add-on, and prompt users to export their data, and then remind them to remove the extension manually. Well, it's too late for that, I suppose. But maybe this is something that they should look into for the future. If you were relying on the Firefox add-on, and want your data back, the next section may help you. You can use this to import them into another add-on, such as Group Speed Dial.

This, of course, will only work if you had synced your data to the cloud, using Eversync. If you desperately need to recover your data from FVD, this seems like a good idea, actually it maybe the only solution for the problem.

Don't forget to remove the add-on when you're done with it. Speaking of which, most of the add-ons that I recommend in that post are available for Firefox, so you may want to try one of those if you are looking for an alternative. Many thanks, it works perfectly, I have been able to access and migrate some bookmarks that I had saved only inside Fast Dial FVD it was not clever.

Thank you SO much! I had over bookmarks that I lost. Thank you. Shame to Mozilla, that they did not create such speed dial feature or extension. Opera has it native in browser. Once again and it will be last drop, which moves me to Opera. I also lost all my speed dials. Can you please elaborate a bit more on how to get the info about my speed dials back on Apple iMac. What is a 3rd party going to see?

What sites you visited so what. Their other extension — EverSync — is still on the addon site. The developer made some steps to allow you to recover your bookmarks from firefox as posted in the instructions in his youtube video.

Juraj M. Your Firefox is not safe without it!!! You should always keep a local copy of your improtant data. Uses ffmpeg. Ver is still out there to sideload, the last one that would download almost anything and why they got in trouble with Mozilla the first time. Any add on I installed that looks like that would have been removed instantly.

Glitz is suspicious. Browsers are free, use whichever you want. In fact, use whatever software you want in general. Worse that can happen is you explode your computer. Not sure what exactly this means. Search queries made in Firefox search bars, in an add-on search engine, on search engine web sites from the Chrome stor page it looks like it may be a search bar inside the add-on?

Redirecting them to third-party engine with or without warning in the add-on description? What do they mean with intercepting, is it just the redirection or is data sent or misused by other means too? Obviously, there is not good reason why Mozilla Corp would forbid the users to have the last word on the remote ban, we have complained enough about that power abuse for years, this is them recalling that they are nothing but a Google front.

To all those who like me are angry against them, please do not surrender when facing walls of denials and non sincere corporate apologies, censorship and harassment for voicing your legitimate anger. Mozilla Corp is backed by powerful surveillance capitalism adversaries who bribe and plant their shills everywhere, so instead of letting them intimidate and suppress you, learn to recognize them from their stance on Mozilla Corp.

We have known for many years already that Mozilla Corp can no longer be saved. Time to use one of the more ethical forks. And at least you get a chance to be heard above the voices of Google and advertisers. What a bunch of BS. Also the other ones that get deleted completely are the ones that have some malicious code, like happened with Nano Defender. In Chromium, the sideloaded ID of the extenions is done by the path used for the extension so it will not be the same you install from Google.

In android particularly, most of my apps are sideloaded and the standard ones disabled since google stuff is data collection software, all of it, they say so.

Attention to the author: Please add the Updated: section to your post with our official answer. We were falsely banned without any notification. We tried to create a topic on the Discussion board and they deleted it. We work on getting it back so you can recover your data. We urge you to use our product on Chrome because it has completely different review process. Tell us about the connections FVD speeddial makes to for instance nimbus.

Why is the user routed through your servers? When i remove the dials like Amazon etc, the connections stop, when i create a new one it starts again? In addition could you read this site and reflect on it? Did I consent for them to do that?

Is it okay for them to do that? This adware potential is not just limited to presenting online ads. Its presence can cause unwanted browser redirects. This is also capable of tracking the users online browsing. FVD Speed Dial can gather and record all crucial information. Be it about your search queries, online purchases, and be it related to your personal and bank or credit card details. Once attacker has all those data, they can simply transmit it to third party. Take note that stolen data is often used not only to build up their marketing campaign, but it can also be used to deeper issues like identity theft.

In , we became aware that the developer of the FVD add-on had begun intercepting search queries that were being sent to a third-party search provider, in clear violation of the Mozilla Add-ons Policies After a repeated violation we again explicitly told them under which circumstances this type of data collection is not acceptable.

Recently we have become aware that the developer has attempted to re-enabled the offending functionality, which remains in violation of AMO policy. In light of these repeated offenses, we have blocked this addon. While we regret the impact that this has had on some of our users, we believe that our commitments to user safety and the importance of user trust in Firefox and its surrounding ecosystem have obligated us to take this action, and we stand by this decision.

It does not really matter if the backdoor misuses mentioned previously opt-out adware, data collection from those having explicitly opted out were from one kind or another kind of experiments that are still disabled or not.

That myth about Mozilla data collection being just things like errors and benign hit rates for technical reasons etc is a very repeated lie and he knows so very much.

Mozilla or even third-parties like Adjust, Adzerk, and ad lib… receive some of the data purely for business purposes like interactions with ads, the default installed browser, referral data included in the personalized installer for marketing, Google advertising ID, content typed in search bar, clicked suggested sites, location….

Sensitive data is also collected like DNS queries to Cloudflare, downloaded files to Google, non search urls typed in the address bar to Google, Mozilla and advertisers… Time spent on browsed pages to Cliqz, in the past. If Mozilla already does all that, there is no reason to expect that in the code backdoor sector they should be nicer.

The problem with the telemetry coverage experiment for example is precisely that it did not respect the telemetry switch. Oh there is that too. If you endured the pain of manually deleting the worst system add-ons from the program folders after every minor browser update, now they will comeback at the next browser startup, and you will probably not even realize it, funny.

Of course those who manually remove instead of disabling do so because they rightfully do not trust a Mozilla disabling switch. But apparently having a problem with anything Mozilla did, some good examples listed here, is now a nazi plot. Which means that, probably to fight nazism, we should expect more malicious features enabled again in the future.

Yeah, as usual, an excellent selection of evidence and facts, especially on-topic. And so serious references. Almost scientific paper. There is no doubt about the adequacy and competence of the writer. Thank you for opening our eyes, mysterious Anonymous! Definitely not Thorenoakenpantsenarkenfox.

I already had Orange Pi Zero as dial-up server set up using this guide , and a four-channel relay board was laying around in junk drawer, so what if you could switch the phone lines to cut off the ATA box and let modems talk directly to each other? Anyway, wires from modems go to middle terminal of relays and wires from ATA box ports go to rightmost terminal of relays. When relays are off, modems are connected to ATA box.

When all relays are turned on, jumper wires will connect modems to each other. Now that I think of it, the jumper wires should be crossed, but apparently it does not matter. Phone cables between modems and ATA box were crossover cables, so I used straight-through cables from this relay mess to ATA box -- I mean, two crossovers in a row would be straight-through then. Anyway, I dunno, works for me, but you might want to swap jumper wires if it doesn't for you.

One pin on OPZ controls all relays at once. Mentioning this because the default is apparently just fine for this. The script keeps an eye on the mgetty log file.

If it sees a line ' send: ATA ', which means the mgetty asks the modem to answer the incoming call, it flicks the relays on. If it sees a line ' mgetty: stable ', which you'll see when mgetty starts after user disconnects the call, PPP quits and mgetty jumps back in , it flicks the relays off.

Wait, but wouldn't the call disconnect because we're messing with the line? At least my modems don't care about it. Maybe the ATA box might be confused, but that's fine. Create an account to leave a comment.

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