Pretty sure he just passed the torch off to someone else (without selling it) because he was tired of it, then continued development shortly aftwards as "ublock origin". uBlock itself (not origin) got sold off the Adblocker Plus and allows some ads.
he didn't sell it, he wanted to stop development and gave it to someone else, who turned out not to be trustworthy, so he made uBlock Origin.
uBlock Origin Lite/Minus are a response to googles manifest v3, which will be mandated soon, taking away some of the APIs needed for uBlock Origin to stay as effective as it currently is. So this is basically a neutered version of uBlock Origin, because the original version will cease to be able to exist in its current form on chromium (but not firefox)
Google has ruined their search engine by going from search terms to natural language processing and giving websites a higher rank if they answer these natural questions.
And now when I Google ‘black widow bite morality rage’ I get webpages of local pest control claiming 7-8 people per year. But this website has zero authority on that matter. Hell, I don’t even know who would link to that.
But because they have this question-answer style they are popular.
Now with this there is an insane amount of conflict. Who are you serving? The users of your browser? Or your shareholders.
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[ 10.5 ms ] story [ 190 ms ] threaduBlock Origin Lite/Minus are a response to googles manifest v3, which will be mandated soon, taking away some of the APIs needed for uBlock Origin to stay as effective as it currently is. So this is basically a neutered version of uBlock Origin, because the original version will cease to be able to exist in its current form on chromium (but not firefox)
https://www.reddit.com/r/ublock/comments/32mos6/ublock_vs_ub...
This one is called lite because it is not as good as the old version, entirely thanks to Google removing support for manifest v2 extensions.
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commit/a559f5f2715c58fea4d...
[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/05/18/manifest-v3-in-fi...
Proxy Chrome extensions are not going to be usable in MV3 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32899846 - Sept 2022 (152 comments)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8KWCLhHrblE
(No affiliation, I just like the way he explains things like this)
And now when I Google ‘black widow bite morality rage’ I get webpages of local pest control claiming 7-8 people per year. But this website has zero authority on that matter. Hell, I don’t even know who would link to that.
But because they have this question-answer style they are popular.
Now with this there is an insane amount of conflict. Who are you serving? The users of your browser? Or your shareholders.