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Someone posted yesterday and some discussions were made. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41707418

uBlock Origin Lite (uBOL) was meant to mitigate the Manifest V3 (MV3) that Chrome/Chromium moved on to this year which severely hindered how an ad-blocker works. Apparently some people prefer uBOL over the original uBlock Origin (uBO) as it's less resource-intensive, especially in less powerful devices like Firefox on an Android.

After pulling from the Firefox add-on store (AMO), users can still receive updates from Github page, so no big deal for users I guess? Sideload it is somewhat more complicated so some users will not use it and some others may consider this a hazard and pull away from installing it.

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