This is the first component of Sync which will indirectly communicate with a non-Sync server (addons.mozilla.org). Sync will be talking with it via the AddonRepository JS APIs. Sync assumes those APIs are doing the proper things to secure against MITM attacks, etc.
|Feature operations review=This feature will utilize a new server-side collection, *addons*. The server people might want to add it to the known/common collections set.
When add-ons are synced across devices, the receiving device installs the add-on from addons.mozilla.org, not from Sync. For every add-on to be installed on receiving devices, AMO will see traffic. It will first see a search for this add-on by its ID. If that returns something, the XPI will be downloaded as part of the install process.
When this feature launches and add-ons are synchronized across devices, AMO could see increased activity. We should keep an eye on this for launch day.
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