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I suspect he will simmer down a bit (I do not at all blame him for what he did, it has to be frustrating to dedicate thousands of hours into something just to have some clueless person pull it). I think it will be back inside of a week, it’s important and can save battery over regular ublock origin on Firefox.

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> it’s important and can save battery over regular ublock origin on Firefox

That sounds like a reason for Mozilla to simmer down and compromise, not gorhill.

They already did? In this specific context, acknowledging the mistake and reinstating the extension is materially all they can do. Maybe it is necessary to reform the extension review process, but getting UBOL back onto AMO would then just be a positive side effect of a much longer-term project.

> can save battery over regular ublock origin

Comparing battery usage for tools with wildly different capabilites does not make sense.

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