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[–] vintageballs@feddit.org 67 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Probably due to automatic extension reviews by Mozilla.

Sad that it happened, but at least it doesn't impact the actual uBlock, only the lite version for which I honestly see no purpose in Firefox anyways.

[–] Virkkunen@fedia.io 77 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It was a manual review conducted by an actual person that in the end admitted they were wrong

[–] vintageballs@feddit.org 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Agreed. Especially considering uBlock origin is pretty much the main reason to use FF at all. They shouldn't be delegating reviews of it to someone who would fuck up this badly.

Assuming this wasn't a "test the waters" kind of thing to determine just how much they were reliant on ublock.

I've been using the main FF build for a while now but I'm wondering if I should start looking at the various fork options.

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Are you like, those old multi colour swirly rubber balls we used to get out of 20p machines as kids? Those were ill!

[–] vintageballs@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don't understand what you are telling me

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's a reference to your username

[–] vintageballs@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And he just leaves them hanging.

I'm referring to the users asking the questions.

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

To be fair it's been less than a day, one of the great things about internet messaging is how asynchronous it can be, it's great for calming anxieties about needing to come up with a reply immediately like if you're on the phone or something x.x

You're right though, I don't reply to things often enough, partly because I'm very sick with COVID at the moment but also a lot of it is my social anxiety and fear of rejection.

I get so scared of what people might say that I avoid looking at the replies, even when I initially reach out because I want to interact with people and form connections ><

It's one of my big problems that I need to overcome, I'm still working out how to tackle it, but I do know it's a problem, and it's mine to solve.

Alas I can't afford things like therapy, so I just have to stumble around trying to figure my ADHD, possibly autistic (wish I could get seen for a diagnosis...), anxious, dumb ass brain out 😅

I'm sorry in the mean time for being a bit annoying, I don't mean to be on purpose :-)

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not the best guy to ask for sensitive responses, but try to take my blunt and possibly obnoxious response in a positive light.

There are a lot of people saying terrible things on the internet, to the point where only the more aggregious ones stand out. Most things will be ignored or forgotten by most people, whether they were good or bad, but I appreciated this post, and you for putting it out there.

I was trying to make a lewdly suggestive comment about vintage balls leaving them hanging. Apparently it wasn't done very well, but it did have unintended and appreciated consequences.

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Ahh, old hanging balls, gotchya xD

Yeah the medium of text can be tricky to convey meaning sometimes, I'm a pretty sarcastic person (gotta love using humour to cope with every situation, so healthy...) with a very deadpan kinda delivery on a lot of it, so I often find myself wondering if my intent came across well over text. Tricky indeed.

Anyway you're cool, and thanks for taking the time to reply so thoughtfully :-)

Now, I'm going to go back to being drenched in a cold sweat! It seems that's today's COVID symptom roulette wheel choice! 💦☉_☉💦

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Your username vintage balls reminded me of those little rubber balls we used to get at kids, I don't see them any more (maybe they're seen as too much of a choking hazard now?), so they feel kinda "vintage" to me now haha.

Those things could really bounce! I liked the semi translucent ones with the rainbow swirl patterns.

[–] limitedduck@awful.systems 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Where does it say it was a manual review?

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

In the original post on GitHub it's mentioned that it was a manual review

[–] abbenm@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

It was a manual review conducted by an actual person that in the end admitted they were wrong

Good to know! I wasn't sure if it was automated or not. That's rough.

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I honestly see no purpose in

It's to circumvent ManifestV3.

[–] Neon@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Manifest v2 still works on Firefox, so OP was right, it's useless

[–] eRac@lemmings.world 1 points 2 months ago

The dev stated that it mostly exists for more performance-limited applications like mobile.

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I thought that was the shit Chrome was doing to block adblockers and antimalware plugins, if Firefox is doing the same thing what browser do we use now? :-(

I don't care about all the browser wars stuff, I lost interest when it was Netscape Vs IE, I just want a browser that I can configure fully myself and have it be as safe and secure as one can make it, within reason.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Firefox is not eliminating MV2 extensions. You can stick with Firefox.

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 months ago

If we want to do something radically different, there's always gopher and gemini browsers.

[–] abbenm@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

I thought that was the shit Chrome was doing to block adblockers and antimalware plugins, if Firefox is doing the same thing what browser do we use now? :-(

They're doing a modified version of V3 that they changed to restore ad-blocking functionality.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 2 months ago

Theoretically, the browser executes the Mv3 blocking rules, so it could be optimized and more efficient than js ever could.