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    It’s probably a coincidence that shortly after Mozilla acquires an ad company, they “accidentally” remove an ad blocker.

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      They made an error and quickly corrected. It’s the addon author who threw a fit and removed the addon.

      This just makes me worried to rely on uBO but more because what if the author just removeds off because someone else pissed them off.

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        It would seem that the ubo lite version was made specifically to cater to chrome and manifest v3 if I’m not mistaken…

        In the end the author may have just felt it was too much energy keeping a pared down chrome version on Firefox when the full version is present and working. Especially after this particular drama.

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          Some say the Lite one was good for mobile since it was lighter weight but I didn’t notice a difference tbh.

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                Nothingers! Do we get a secret handshake? A mid range phone, that doesnt feel like a mid range phone. My previous phone was Oneplus 6. Nothing 2a feels like how Oneplus 6 felt right at the beginning, at 30% lower a price. I’m loving the face down light only notifications, and the gesture navigation. Gestures means i can use my one thumb to scroll back and forth easily.

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            Performance wise they should be identical, what matters is how many lists you have enabled, etc. If anything, performance-focused list management will result in more performance with ordinary uBO. Either way, gothill is a legend

            Edit: I’m wrong, apparently Lite can be faster on android after all

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        This just makes me worried to rely on uBO but more because what if the author just removeds off because someone else pissed them off.

        That is very concerning to me, also.

        Large parts of the internet relying on one or two tiny one-man FOSS projects? (UBO and ADguard are often cited as the only two reliable-ish and safe adblockers)

        If he can’t be bothered with that nonsense, how secure is UBO’s future? How secure is the future of adblocking?

        I would bet that advertising companies are rubbing their hands now and planning to ramp up pressure against these poor devs.

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          I don’t think throwing a fit and it being a hissy fit are the same thing.

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            I don’t think throwing a fit and it being a hissy fit are the same thing.

            the things people will debate online

            edit: I beefed it on this one. They were being normal and I misunderstood. Note to self to think before typing in the future.

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              Throwing a fit can mean getting angry. It being a hissy fit would mean the cause was something childish and not serious.

              I’m not trying to debate it, if you look I’m the one who originally wrote the comment so I’m trying to explain what I meant.

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        Lite is barely relevant for Firefox anyway. Gorhill (along with host list maintainers) is one of the saints of modern day open source; if he felt overwhelmed by Mozilla’s actions, and chose to just take Lite down from the extension store, he has every right to. No one should removed on someone who has given so much to the community.

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        As the article says, only when it blew up. But you’re right, the author doesn’t look good either.

        More honestly, I enjoy a good conspiracy theory with my coffee.

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          As the article says, only when it blew up.

          The article also seems to say that he didn’t bother to disprove the mistaken findings and so Mozilla might’ve not even heard anything back until it blew up. The whole thing seems to have happened pretty quickly.

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            Yeah, I know. If I was in a sensible mood this AM, I probably wouldn’t have started this chain. But if you look back to my first comment, I did say it was probably a coincidence.

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        I think they had reasons to act how they acted. They’re probably on a lot of pressure because the whole tech world is fighting ad blocking now.

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          There’s always some reason. I’m just worried that something happens with uBO and same happens there

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            Things always change in the world. Case in point being Lemmy and Federation. Whatever comes after uBO will never be like the same old thing, but we just keep on going forward and fondly remember the nice things we used to have, thanking those that worked tirelessly so we could enjoy those nice things.

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              This is a peaceful but not the best approach. Though we should always respect and thank the developers, we (if possible) shouldn’t just let things be replaced with worse alternatives all the time.

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                God grant me the serenity

                To accept the things I cannot change;

                Courage to change the things I can;

                And wisdom to know the difference.

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          That is the power of open source, but gorhill is a very respected and uncompromising maintainer so can be hard to find someone as good

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      It’s probably a coincidence that shortly after Mozilla acquires an ad company, they “accidentally” remove an ad blocker.

      I mean I’m of two minds here. One, there’s an epidemic of intellectually lazy, kneejerk Mozilla hate and it’s time to turn the tide on that.

      But on the other hand, even as a Mozilla fanboy I can see how this is a really bad look, and really indefensible. I think it’s more of a huge error of judgment, and if there are other huge errors, I can begin to see a problem, but I think they have too much of a positive track record in their history to just go reaching for the tinfoil hats so quickly.