alt Hacker News> 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?
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Nullabillity • 10/11/2024
Lite doesn't require any permissions.
bad_user • 10/11/2024
Security and possibly performance, which is the selling point of MV3.
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jeffbee • 10/11/2024
The "original" UBO is basically the mother of all supply chain vulnerabilities and whenever the inevitable exploit happens, everyone who thought they were a connoisseur of privacy is going to get completely pwned. UBO Lite works without being a gigantic security vuln.
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I'm doing all my banking in a separate Firefox profile where uBlock Origin Lite is the only installed extension. So there a zero extensions that have permission to access the pages or requests.
Of course I'm still using the normal uBlock Origin in my main browsing profile.