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Comment by CalRobert | Hacker News Reader

At this point it’s hard to have much sympathy when Firefox is literally right there, for free.

> Gorhill reports on GitHub that an automated code review by Mozilla flagged problems with uBlock Origin Lite. As a result, he has pulled the add-on from Mozilla's extensions site. The extension's former page now just says "Oops! We can't find that page". You can still install it direct from GitHub, though.

I genuinely think one of the biggest problems in digital society is people being addicted to reading headlines without doing the boring work of reading the article.

I think GP meant that there's a big difference between Mozilla flagging the less-powerful uBlock as a mistake and Google intentionally deprecating the entire mechanism that the more-powerful uBlock depends on, and that you can continue to use the original and more powerful version of uBlock on Firefox for the foreseeable future. Thus, Firefox should be the clear choice for people who want to block ads.

That view is entirely consistent with reading the article, as in-fact the article points this out.

Mozilla is still the better company producing the better browser, in general, but as The Register says, it is now an ad company too.

And the uBO Lite flagging caused more developers to confirm the difficulty of the review process and the minimal value of publishing to the Firefox store. Phrases like "useless time sink expensive", "a real nightmare to work with" and "we just decided to give up" (from three different devs) stand out to me.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41710183

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