Neowin reports that the popular ad blocking add-on uBlock Origin Lite has been removed from Firefox’s official add-on marketplace due to a recent conflict that’s been brewing.
uBlock Origin Lite’s developer Raymond Hill has been butting heads with Mozilla since early September, when Mozilla inexplicably flagged every version of uBlock Origin Lite for violating Firefox policies.
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The uBlock Origin Lite add-on was also accused of collecting user data and running afoul of privacy concerns, which is one of the big reasons why people switch over to the Firefox browser in the first place. Hill responded: “It takes only a few seconds for anyone who has even basic understanding of JavaScript to see the raised issues make no sense.”
Mozilla later admitted in an email that they had made a mistake regarding the extension, but Hill has ultimately decided to cease development of the uBlock Origin Lite add-on for Firefox.
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