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Well, that seems to be more the result of a personal grudge by gorhill than anything else. He didn't like that ublock.org was soliciting donations. uBlock isn't
by _qulr 6y ago
Well, that seems to be more the result of a personal grudge by gorhill than anything else. He didn't like that ublock.org was soliciting donations. uBlock isn't literally malware or much different from many other ad blockers out there.
To be clear though, gorhill didn't "sell out". He got tired of answering support requests, so he turned the repository over to someone else. To be sure, his trust in that other person was misplaced. But in response, gorhill didn't sit idly by, he forked uBlock into uBlock Origin. All of this was done for free, with no compensation for work.
- gorhill 6y agoIt's not a personal grudge, and I am not the one who added that filter in the first place[1], though I did not oppose the filter because I have come across numerous instances of people thinking that ublock.org was related to uBO[2]. * * * [1] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/commit/82067d1ef33702fd1abd12fd31a0336bac28c41d https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/commit/82067d1ef3370... [2] https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1035155281729216514 https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1035155281729216514
- _qulr 6y agoThanks for the clarification, and sorry about the misunderstanding! My overall point is that policing the Chrome Web Store, which is Google's responsibility, is a separate issue and not necessarily relevant to Manifest v3. If there were a malware extension in the Chrome Web Store today with 800K users, then Google ought to remove it today and doesn't need to wait for Manifest v3 for that. In fact, Google seems to indicate that v2 will continue to be supported for at least a year, so extensions using that API will continue to be in the Chrome Web Store for quite some time. The whole issue of transfer of ownership of extensions is a red herring as far as Manifest v3 is concerned.