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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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