> Perhaps you trust gorhill with that power, but it's pretty understandable why others might not want to give that power to a third party.

I have been using the extension, now called ublock origin, for longer than I have been using the Firefox browser. Mozilla is the third party in this relationship.

In all those years, the extension project's principles were very strict, and the authors never disappointed. Mozilla, meanwhile, is just a constant stream of disappointments.

It's so many things, really. Magic opt-out tracking here and there, ads in new tab windows, nuking almost the entire extension ecosystem on Android for a couple of years just to grind down the user base, etc. It never ends.

You can also communicate with gorhill like a real person. Mozilla press communication is always a psychopathic mess of corporate speak. There is hardly anything in there.

I'm not even sure which project, ublock origin or Firefox, has more users by now.

My loyalties are pretty well sorted at this point.