Chris Palmer on Nostr: Woke up to uBlock Origin Lite being turned off by Chrome, because uBOL increased the ...
Woke up to uBlock Origin Lite being turned off by Chrome, because uBOL increased the permissions it requests. (Chrome does this for all extensions that increase their declared permissions, and that is good.)
The point of uBOL is that it needs bare-minimum, safe permissions only; but now, it was asking for full control over all web pages. You should borderline never grant that level of permission to a browser extension.
But! You can fix it. Here's how
Published at
2025-04-17 05:33:51Event JSON
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