Popular ad blocker uBlock Origin Lite pulled from Firefox store | PCWorld
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“The uBlock Origin Lite add-on was also accused of collecting user data and running afoul of privacy concerns, which is one of the big reasons why people switch over to the Firefox browser in the first place. Hill [the developer] responded: “It takes only a few seconds for anyone who has even basic understanding of JavaScript to see the raised issues make no sense.””

  • @[email protected]English
    92•2 months ago

    Why would anyone even want to use uBlock Origin Lite on Firefox? It’s a stripped down version designed to work with the limitations of manifest V3 in chrome.

      • @airglowEnglish
        56•2 months ago

        Any details on that? The full uBlock Origin works well on mobile and I don’t see how a lite version with reduced blocking effectiveness could be more useful.

        • MadisEnglish
          36•2 months ago

          uBOL is entirely declarative, meaning there is no need for a permanent uBOL process for the filtering to occur, and CSS/JS injection-based content filtering is performed reliably by the browser itself rather than by the extension. This means that uBOL itself does not consume CPU/memory resources while content blocking is ongoing – uBOL’s service worker process is required only when you interact with the popup panel or the option pages.

          uBOL does not require broad “read/modify data” permission at install time, hence its limited capabilities out of the box compared to uBlock Origin or other content blockers requiring broad “read/modify data” permissions at install time.

          Emphasis mine. No background processes, including a website-reading permission does indeed sound more optimized for mobile, where people may have limited resources.

    • @atrielienzOPEnglish
      4•2 months ago

      My guess is that it’s used predominantly by people who own budget smart phones. Having lite versions of apps be available to people who don’t use thousand dollar flagships I think is kind of important. However, I intended the post to be informational.

      • @TakumideshEnglish
        3•2 months ago

        Is the lite version more performant?

        • @atrielienzOPEnglish
          2•2 months ago

          On lower end smart phones? It probably just slows the phone down less specifically because of how few processes it uses in the background. But I don’t know. I’m not a lite UBO user. It definitely doesn’t have the same number of features as the regular variant of UBO though.

  • AvieshekEnglish
    -66•2 months ago

    The Fuck? Might as well use Chromium but am sticking to Safari + AdGuard combo then.

    • exuEnglish
      55•2 months ago

      You can still use the real uBlock Origin instead of the mediocre version Google allows

      • AvieshekEnglish
        -51•2 months ago

        So, I was suppose the original version would continue to say and somehow ‘only’ the Lite version had a privacy issue?