alt Hacker NewsOof. I get gorhill is pissed about the whole thing, but, this feels like cutting off your nose to spite your face. It's going to be much trickier for people to get uBO Lite onto their Firefox for Android installations now, or even if they can, they might just not bother.
And, while I suppose gorhill could make the case that he's protesting this egregious process on behalf of the little guy, the fact is, he's not the little guy as far as Firefox add-ons go. uBO was one of the first (if not the first) 3rd-party addon to be offered as part of Firefox for Android after Mozilla's reorg started rolling out. He clearly has Mozilla's attention. I'm not sure what he gains from continued intransigence offers after Mozilla admits their mistake and apologizes.
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He gains by not having to interact with them for UBOL.
When you waste people's time sometimes an apology is not enough for them to want to continue to work with you ...
> 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.
> It's going to be much trickier for people to get uBO Lite onto their Firefox for Android installations now, or even if they can, they might just not bother.
Why would they bother? Firefox - Android or desktop - runs full/regular uBo just fine.