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Apparently, as the article says, the lite version is the recommended one by the author to be used
It doesn't apply to firefox.
>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), an…
And I guess some people would claim that since its an open source addon no one can feel entitled to anything else
>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), an…
And now there's the "manifest v3" change, and making people jump through hoops to be on AMO.
This is very sad, almost as much as the internal governance over there.
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
It appears the issues were found using simple heuristics (e.g they detected string pagead2.googlesyndication.com in a comment) and these detections weren't then manually reviewed as claimed, which is wasting everybody's time.
But... ublock is like the main reason I use FF
The delisted extension, Ublock Origin lite, is a v3 manifest plugin. Apparently it was created to address chrome blocking the v2 extension, but you can continue to use the v2 extension on Firefox
But... ublock is like the main reason I use FF
The developer has pulled the 'lite' version, which is developed mainly for Chrome because Google killed some APIs the full version was using.
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 t…