On Fri, 28 Aug, 2015 at 09:34:14 GMT, Alexander Ploumistos wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Martin Stransky <stransky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Thanks for the info. Actually is there any reason why Fedora packager would >> need to modify the original extension? > > > That depends on the extension and its particulars. For example, > adblock plus has an extortion-like scheme in place and it allows > certain ads from certain companies that have paid them good money for > their service. This patch blocks those ads as well: > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/mozilla-adblockplus.git/tree/disable-safeads.patch > I didn't care to check if such a modification is permitted by their TOS. There's Adblock Edge[1] which is a fork without such "features". But it seems they have discontinuted in favor of uBlock Origin[2] (which also handles the Request Policy plugin; also pretty much discontinued upstream). Having used all four, uBlock Origin is certainly the best out of all of them. --Ben [1]https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/ [2]https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/ -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
