alt Hacker NewsIt's worth noting that the maintenance of the "lite" version is at some nonzero risk of burnout for its developers, ironically in part due to Mozilla being unnecessarily hostile: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/197#issueco... discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41707418 - and while there's no plan yet to discontinue the Chrome MV3 compatible version, there are a million ways that this could go wrong.
My only long-term hope for this space is that a nonzero segment of congressional representatives have had ad blockers installed by their aides, realize that their experience online takes a nosedive when MV2 is discontinued, and calls for hearings! Blocking isn't just about not seeing ads, it's about a user's freedom to set up their "user agent" to preserve their privacy online from sites that don't respect their wishes. That's a right that Google is using its market power to erode, and it's not something we should take sitting down.
More on MV3 from a few years ago: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-ma...
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> My only long-term hope for this space ...
Some of the anti-monopoly investigations of Google might achieve this too.
The removal of MV2 is extremely clearly Google abusing their dominant market position to line their pockets at the expense of their users.
When this goes through, there will be another EU anti-monopoly investigation just for this.
I think everywhere that you used “nonzero” you could have also not and it would have still made exactly the same point.
I imagine the focus of the developers will very quickly shift to Lite once Chrome flips the switch and 95% of uBO's user base disappears overnight. It might not be what they want, but such events have their own dynamic.
Looks like FF got unlucky with a subcontractor that is "manually reviewing" extensions on the cheap
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> It's worth noting that the maintenance of the "lite" version is at some nonzero risk of burnout for its developers, ironically in part due to Mozilla being unnecessarily hostile:
Why would you even use the lite version on firefox when the original works?