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any media that requires a permission from an external party to play can and will eventually be taken from you. at least qobuz seems to be drm-free (i don’t use the service, so don’t quote me on that) so you should be able to make a copy of what you listen to. at least before they enshittify.

still, i’d personally not feel comfortable entrusting a streaming service with being the gatekeeper of the media i want long-term access to.

it’s not that it’s harder to remove, with no reliable info about which commits are human made and which aren’t, you can’t reuse any of them from this point in time.

for the record, the diff just between 7.2 and 7.3-rc7 is over 1.5 million lines and comes out to a 61 megabyte patch. but linux has been accepting sloppy code for a bit now and the last clean version is 6.16.7.

you’d need a really well funded and motivated group of developers, and even then i worry how doable that is, especially if the goal is to stay linux-compatible.

i mean… blocking lists are universal, but the other features ublock offers are not - i’m making heavy use of ublock’s dynamic filtering panel and per-site switches. one important thing i use ublock for is to whitelist which sites get javascript permissions and to get rid of remote fonts to make pages more readable. those features need manifest v2.

if firefox drops manifest v2 and you’re relying purely on those inbuilt blocking lists then you might as well use the manifest v3 version of ublock without seeing a difference, right?