Hello,
On 01/03/2026 19:03, Страхиња Радић wrote:
Дана 26/03/01 05:30PM, Gimmi написа:
Be aware that uMatrix has been unmantained for about 4 years AFAIK ([1]).
That's ok in this case, because it doesn't use lists (which always need
to be up-to-date). It is "finished" in the suckless sense. It doesn't
need update bloat.>
Quoting https://digdeeper.club/articles/addons.xhtml#umatrix
UPDATE February 2022: a surprising amount of people have bothered me
about uMatrix supposedly being "deprecated". Nothing could be further
from the truth! Just because the developer stopped updating it doesn't
mean anything. During this time, the web didn't change in a way that
would inhibit uMatrix functionality. The grid still covers all the
requests.
While I agree on that for new functions (if the tool is fine as it is,
why touch it?), it is also true that if a security vulnerability is
discovered in unmaintained software it is probable that it will not be
patched. Someone can create a fork of uMatrix, but it will not be
uMatrix: good luck getting the word out!
The idea that a software needs constant updates to stay
useful really needs to die. It is what has got us into this whole
privacy and bloat mess in the first place. My clock or drawer have not
needed updates for decades, why would a program?
Software does not need constant updates to function: on the contrary, if
a piece of software works as intended, why bother changing it and thus
risk to introduce bugs? However, I would be much more relieved if the
uMatrix repository were never been archived, so that more people would
use it and possibly discover bugs or security vulnerabilities.
Neither the clock nor the drawer can receive remote commands because of
unintended flaws in their programming.
If uMatrix wasn't included in a browser or intended to read external
files, the fact that it is unmaintained wouldn't be a problem.
This is just my take on the issue, I am not stating that uMatrix is
vulnerable to something. On the contrary, I used it for many years and I
believe it is better than uBlock.
--
Gimmi
