7mo ago

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7mo ago

Mozilla removes uBlock Origin Lite from Addon store. Developer stops developing Lite for Firefox; "it's worrisome what could happen to uBO in the future."

Mozilla recently removed every version of uBlock Origin Lite from their add-on store except for the oldest version.

Mozilla says a manual review flagged these issues:

Consent, specifically Nonexistent: For add-ons that collect or transmit user data, the user must be informed...
Your add-on contains minified, concatenated or otherwise machine-generated code. You need to provide the original sources...

uBlock Origin's developer gorhill refutes this with linked evidence.

Contrary to what these emails suggest, the source code files highlighted in the email:
Have nothing to do with data collection, there is no such thing anywhere in uBOL
There is no minified code in uBOL, and certainly none in the supposed faulty files

Even for people who did not prefer this add-on, the removal could have a chilling effect on uBlock Origin itself.

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Crashdoom (he/him) @pawb.social

7mo ago

Limit

tenforward.social

After reviewing a report regarding the personal account of the admin of tenforward.social, and discussing with other fediverse admins, we're deciding to suspend the admin and limit tenforward.social until this blows over. I'll explain why on both, starting with the admin themselves.

Suspending [email protected]

Rule 1: Threats of Violence

packetcat made several posts[1][2] that were perceived as a threat of violence, metered by it being "theoretical". This is not acceptable behavior for any user, especially an instance administrator, irrespective of the intended target of their annoyance.

This comes across as extremely volatile and dangerous, and on any other platform (except the cesspool that is X / Twatter) would be immediately removed.

Rule 6: No Spam

packetcat appears to have been going on a run of posts using several hashtags excessively in ways we, and other instances, have previously actioned as abuse / spam.

In the first case, the #fediblock hasht