Mozilla's massive lapse in judgement causes clash with uBlock Origin developer - gHacks Tech News
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Mozilla has removed uBlock Origin Lite from Firefox's addon store after a review found issues with the extension.
  • kbal@fedia.io
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    2 months ago

    The discourse about Mozilla is ridiculous, here and most everywhere. You’ve got people taking every perceived opportunity to attack them for things they do, things they didn’t do, and things it’s imagined they might’ve done. And then another crowd of equally determined people doggedly defending them for every idiotic blunder they make, such as this one.

    Meanwhile Mozilla itself has nothing substantial to say. This is not the first time a prominent extension has mysteriously gone missing from amo with Mozilla telling us nothing about its role in the incident. @mozilla@mozilla.social needs to be in the discussion giving us a real explanation of what happened, why they got it wrong, and what they’re doing to improve things.

    • setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      Correct, this two-sided discourse is due to a massive lack of communication on Mozilla’s part, leaving room for speculation.

      • abbenm@lemmy.ml
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        2 months ago

        The best I can think of is that the explainer language used to justify the extension’s removal was just boilerplate language that got copy+pasted here because someone clicked the wrong button. But even that makes a mockery of the review process.

        I think “oops clicked wrong button” would be slightly more defensible, but not by much. If they truly rejected the extension for content in it that it does not have, it’s hard to see how a human could make that mistake even accidentally. But maybe there’s something I’m missing.

  • vintageballs@feddit.orgDeutsch
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    2 months ago

    Probably due to automatic extension reviews by Mozilla.

    Sad that it happened, but at least it doesn’t impact the actual uBlock, only the lite version for which I honestly see no purpose in Firefox anyways.

    • Virkkunen@fedia.io
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      2 months ago

      It was a manual review conducted by an actual person that in the end admitted they were wrong

        • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          Agreed. Especially considering uBlock origin is pretty much the main reason to use FF at all. They shouldn’t be delegating reviews of it to someone who would fuck up this badly.

          Assuming this wasn’t a “test the waters” kind of thing to determine just how much they were reliant on ublock.

          I’ve been using the main FF build for a while now but I’m wondering if I should start looking at the various fork options.

  • Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Mozilla isn’t google. They took it back and encouraged the guy to reach out in the future if any issues arise.

    BFD, it’s not like they banned his account, just one gimped extension that doesn’t do the whole ad blocking experience and even then only because he didn’t do anything to try and reverse it. Then after it’s restored he throws his tantrum and removes it.

    With all the extensions out there false positive detections of malicious apps are going to happen. Nobody has unlimited resources to hire boatloads of devs to review every single line of code of every extension for every update done. That’s an insane expectation.

      • Semperverus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        There is fairly substantial rumor that there may be a smear campaign against firefox lately because they are still supporting manifest v2, which our owning class does not care for.

        Mozilla has made their fair share of stupid decisions lately, but they are still leagues ahead of Google, Amazon, and the other FAANG-type companies in ethics and trustworthiness. Definitely something to keep a pulse on, but nothing to throw the baby out with the bathwater over. And if it really bothers you, use LibreWolf/Fennec.