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Re:Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other block... by jzl on Friday September 20, 2019 @04:10PM (#21030725)
Exactly. The whole point of this HN post is that people are annoyed and upset about Safari doing this. Ultimately this and Chrome's potential upcoming changes have driven me back to using Firefox almost exclusively.
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Re:Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other block... by tssva on Friday September 20, 2019 @10:24PM (#21033107)
Mozilla's statement regarding Manifest V3 hints that Mozilla is likely to follow the same path at a later date. They face the same security and privacy issues surrounding plugins that have driven Apple and Google to make the changes they have.
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Re:Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other block... by p4t44 on Saturday September 21, 2019 @04:35AM (#21034192)
> We have no immediate plans to remove blocking webRequest and are working with add-on developers to gain a better understanding of how they use the APIs in question to help determine how to best support them.

I don't take from that they will apply it in the future, just they don't want to rule anything out.

source: https://www.ghacks.net/2019/09/03/mozilla-wont-follow-google...

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