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Gorhill pulls uBlock Origin Lite from Firefox store

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Re: Gorhill pulls uBlock Origin Lite from Firefox store

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Post by ilrwbwrkhv »

open-paren wrote: post #117

I manage a medium-sized browser extension at work. We also offer(ed) it on Firefox. But I have spent the past year struggling to get back into Mozilla store after a manual review. As far as I can tell, there are maybe two reviewers that are based in Europe (Romania?). The turn around time is long when I am in the US, and it has been rife with this same kind of "simple mistake" that takes 2 weeks to resolve. "You need…

That's not just mozilla. Google's review team all are in India and they cannot write clear English. It's a mess.

Re: Gorhill pulls uBlock Origin Lite from Firefox store

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Post by ravenstine »

SuperNinKenDo wrote: post #45

Fair play. uBO is THE killer extension, and apparently it never occured to Mozilla that if they were going to insist on using some hideous, Google style, machine led review process for extensions, perhaps they should at least make a carve out for one of the single most important extensions that exists. I can totally understand gorhill becoming completely insensed by the whole thing and refusing to play ball when Mozi…

uBlock Origin is likely the primary reason Firefox has any amount of meaningful browser market share today. If Firefox didn't support it then I would be using another browser. Seeing as Mozilla has been struggling to get anything right, they should be kissing gorhill's behind.

Re: Gorhill pulls uBlock Origin Lite from Firefox store

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Post by conor- »

internet2000 wrote: post #126

The sooner people realize Mozilla is not your friend, the better. They’ve been compromised by the Google money. Want an alternative to Chromium? Go support Servo or Ladybird, Firefox can’t be saved.

Blink is to Servo what Chromium is to Firefox.

Supporting Servo on its own doesn't really move the needle a whole lot if it's missing all of the rest of the bits that make a comprehensive browser.

Firefox is already using Servo (at least in the form of Quantum) under the hood and is still the best option available to prevent more of a complete Blink monoculture than already exists with every other major browser being Blink-based or some reskin/fork of Chromium

Re: Gorhill pulls uBlock Origin Lite from Firefox store

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Post by witrak »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #51
carlosjobim wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I'm not sure what he gains from continued intransigence offers after Mozilla admits their mistake and apologizes. What would he gain from submission to Mozilla? Either way he gains $0 for all the work he's done to improve the Internet for millions of people.

He gains Mozilla's distribution model and audience, which allows users of Firefox to download add-ons from their browser's UI and updates automatically, rather than having to manually pull an extension file from a Github page for each new release and install it.

I agree with one exception:

> [...] and audience [...]

If you take into account small market share of Firefox and even smaller percentage of Firefox user needing uBOL then "audience" isn't anything important in this case. Perhaps this whole story will increase popularity of uBOL more...

Re: Gorhill pulls uBlock Origin Lite from Firefox store

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Post by jorams »

witrak wrote: post #159
jorams wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The purpose of their comment is to correct your statement that: > perhaps they should at least make a carve out for one of the single most important extensions that exists. uBOL is not an important extension on Firefox.

>uBOL is not an important extension on Firefox. Perhaps you should read some earlier comments then you wouldn't say such things? Hints: Firefox mobile; range of privileges required.

I did, it does not change what I said. uBO works perfectly fine on Firefox Mobile and doesn't use much battery. People can prefer uBOL, but that doesn't make it important to the ecosystem.

Re: Gorhill pulls uBlock Origin Lite from Firefox store

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Post by trustno2 »

lol768 wrote: post #52

Why does this extension even exist on AMO? The article says it's the "Lite/Manifest v3 version" - why would you ever install the inferior edition meant for legacy browsers, instead of the one that blocks ads properly that's meant for Firefox?

manifest v3 is actually not a bad idea at all. it's more efficient, more private.

Re: Gorhill pulls uBlock Origin Lite from Firefox store

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Post by trustno2 »

poincaredisk wrote: post #8

>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…

Judging from his replies, this is not the first time he had problems with the review system
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