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Re:uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox by generic92034 on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @03:32AM (#37219720)
The counter move is announcing some "security fixes" (of course without any further detail) in each and every update. Now you do not know if you are increasing security by applying the update or if you are decreasing it...
Re:uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox by sanitycheck on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @04:53AM (#37220181)
"Security fixes" just means the developer wanted to list what actually changed (which would be "added more telemetry, fixed analytics client ID persistence, made sidebar blue match logo" or something) but the PM insists on using the same generic message each time. Safe to ignore those updates!
Re:uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox by arsome on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @08:11AM (#37221534)
I don't get out of bed for anything without a CVE so I can confirm I actually have a threat from the vulnerability, often times they're things where you'd need to use an obscure feature or local privilege escalations on single user systems, etc.
Re:uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox by generic92034 on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @02:33PM (#37226806)
If they never publish any details of security issues (and certainly no CVE score), can you safely assume that you would never receive a genuinely important security fix? How would it feel later on, when your system was compromised and support is pointing to the update with the security fixes?

Yes, maybe that is some weird kind of fear of missing out (on security), but I have a hard time ignoring security fixes, even without details.