Gorhill pulls uBlock Origin Lite from Firefox store

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Post by croes » Tue, Oct 01, 2024, 12:18 PM UTC

Gorhill pulls uBlock Origin Lite from Firefox store
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Post by petabit » Tue, Oct 01, 2024, 12:53 PM UTC

Apparently, as the article says, the lite version is the recommended one by the author to be used

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Post by jqpabc123 » Tue, Oct 01, 2024, 12:54 PM UTC

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Post by ziml77 » Tue, Oct 01, 2024, 12:56 PM UTC

petabit wrote: post #2

Apparently, as the article says, the lite version is the recommended one by the author to be used

Recommended for Chrome. I'm not sure why anyone would want this for Firefox.

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Post by Freak_NL » Tue, Oct 01, 2024, 12:58 PM UTC

I really hope Raymond Hill won't do the same for uBlock Origin (the manifest v2 version). I'm not too comfortable recommending others to install a self-hosted extension.

It's a shame Mozilla and Raymond Hill can't/won't solve this together. I get that the review he got simply should not have happened for an extension like this (see the Github thread¹) and that he is simply done with bothering, but I worry about how that will affect uBlock Origin's long-term stability as a project. The whole situation sounds decidedly unhealthy.

1: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/197#issueco...

Re: Gorhill pulls uBlock Origin Lite from Firefox store

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Post by actinium226 » Tue, Oct 01, 2024, 1:02 PM UTC

But... ublock is like the main reason I use FF

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Post by VoxPelli » Tue, Oct 01, 2024, 1:02 PM UTC

Because no one ever have taken over and compromised high profile extensions?

Chrome battles with it a lot, see eg. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36146278

I find Mozilla's process to be quite reassuring, but would be good to have alternative "addon stores" that also have a review process

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Post by poincaredisk » Tue, Oct 01, 2024, 1:02 PM UTC

>The last message from the developer in a now-closed GitHub issue shows an email from Mozilla admitting its fault and apologizing for the mistake. However, Raymond still pulled the extension from the Mozilla Add-ons Store, which means you can no longer find it on addons.mozilla.org.

This seems pretty harsh. Mozilla made a mistake, Mozilla apologized, Mozilla fixed the mistake (maybe even improved their processes), and the author still pulls their choose and criticizes Mozilla. On my opinion either author took this a bit up personally, or cares about improving the review process and wants to make a strong point (with some hurt done for their project visibility).

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Post by latexr » Tue, Oct 01, 2024, 1:02 PM UTC

For anyone confused by the real title:

> uBlock Origin Lite maker ends Firefox store support, slams Mozilla for hostile reviews

“Review” here means the Mozilla review to allow the extension in the store, not user reviews of the extension.

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Post by VoxPelli » Tue, Oct 01, 2024, 1:03 PM UTC

jqpabc123 wrote: post #3

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How is that at all relevant here? Google doesn't have this same review process for Chrome?