[mossTechnician]

> they have a good review process for popular browser extensions... [Google] have conflict of interest when it comes to hosting stuff like Ublock.

It's serendipitous you mentioned that extension, because Mozilla recently came under fire after its treatment of that developer[1], and people started talking about how tedious it is to publish extensions. Mozilla is now also an ad company, so it has the same conflict of interest as Google.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41707418

[Throw38494]

I see that conflict as a sign this process actually works. That extension had a few thousands of downloads, and should not get automatic pass, just because it is from famous developer.

Ublick Origin is different from "Ublock Origin Lite"