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Re:uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox by vachina on Monday August 21, 2023 @09:20PM (#37217436)
If you don’t trust the OG ublock what makes you think you can trust the Lite ublock?
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Re:uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox by Barrin92 on Monday August 21, 2023 @09:27PM (#37217486)
the fact that it cannot do a lot of untrustworthy things under the new v3 policy, like remote execute code, that is literally the point.
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Re:uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox by postalrat on Monday August 21, 2023 @11:11PM (#37218203)
The point is to neuter extensions to the point where they can't effectively block ads.
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Re:uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox by pritambaral on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @01:10AM (#37218906)
Can uBOL be autoupdated to a v2 extension? That would negate this point.
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Re:uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox by tech234a on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @02:04AM (#37219201)
It would only partially negate the point. Any new permissions would trigger a prompt for the user to accept the additional permissions before installing the update. Also there is some aspect of human review for updates to extensions on the Mozilla Addons site.
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Re:uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox by pgeorgi on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @02:05AM (#37219207)
At that point it would request the global "read and modify all sites" permission, which makes it kinda obvious.
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