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Their latest changes aren’t great but they can be disabled. In general there are work-arounds for all their quirks. We should not overreact.

Firefox remains the only way I can get full uBlock Origin and uMatrix on the desktop, and I simply refuse to browse the mind-bogglingly frustrating “modern web” without those.

Also, browser diversity is crucial. We should support the main competition as long as possible.

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Firefox phones home to Mozilla all the time due to behavior that’s hard coded with no controls. If you proxy it you’ll see all the traffic. This is just the latest behavior of that type which is visible to users so it’s gotten a lot of attention.

I hope someone who understands Firefox internals and release process is ready to step in with uBlock Origin if/when they finally jump the shark.

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