According to a member of the uBlock Origin team, and a Mozilla employee (different people):
gorhill has voluntarily taken down uBlock Origin Lite from the Mozilla Addons store and did not request Mozilla re-review the extension.
gorhill has announced the extension will only be available to be downloaded from GitHub.
This comes after Mozilla erroneously flagged an update to uBlock Origin Lite as violating their data collection polices. Mozilla *did not* remove the extension, and just blocked new updates.
A Mozilla employee raised the issue internally, but it seems gorhill is unwilling to appeal, originally stating
> I don't have the time or motivation to spend time on this nonsense, so I will let AMO do whatever they want with uBOL.
This is a developing story, and new or corrected information may come out.
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/197#issuecomment-2358842852
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According to @ajayyy, the maintainer of SponsorBlock, typing "uBlock" into the Chrome Web Store search directs users to "uBlock" instead of uBlock Origin.
Actually searching returns both extensions.
This is because Google no longer gives MV2 extensions "featured" status, which elevates them in search predictions.
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/discussions/2977#discussioncomment-9906082
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Chrome Web Store migration plan? · uBlockOrigin uBlock-issues · Discussion #2977
Has @gorhill or anyone else stated the exact plan for the current Chrome Web Store listing of uBlock Origin? Will it be updated to the Manifest V3-compliant Lite version, or will people have to ins...
Be aware: in Chromium browsers, browser extension session storage is leaked into content script processes, and thus can be stolen by websites if they can compromise the content script.
The sky isn't falling, but something to be aware of.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1342046 (from https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/72#issuecomment-1762785846)
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Just another reason to limit your browser extensions: https://vitonsky.net/blog/2023/09/01/malware-in-browser-extensions/
Of course, it's hard to know if a developer will give in and include malware in their extension.
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Browser extensions spy on you, even if its developers don't
I've developed a few browser extensions, and every week I receive numerous emails with "revenue offer". Some experienced developers know that offers like these will inject malware into the browsers of your users, but scammers who make these offers will not tell you about it. They offer "integrations" that don't look so suspicious. Imagine how many developers have accepted these offers. Then look at the number of extensions in your browser and think about how much risk there is that you have an extension with malware.
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