Raymond Hill, author of the uBlock Origin inappropriate content blocking system, translated uMatrix browser add-on to archive mode, which means stopping development and making the code available in read-only mode.
As the reason for stopping development, Raymond Hill published two days ago mentioned that he can't and won't spend any more of his time developing and maintaining uMatrix. At the same time, he did not rule out that he might return to work on uMatrix in the future and resume development. Those wishing to continue the development of uMatrix are invited to create a fork of the project under a new name.
A month ago Raymond Hill also
, who will never transfer the management of his projects to others, because he would not want his offspring to turn into something that contradicts the original goals and personal principles (for example, adding monetization or inflating functionality). Raymond also
talked about how a real help to the project would be to work on identifying the causes and fixing problems, instead of asking for more new features. In Raymond's experience, people who are able to understand the code and find the cause of the problem are very rare.
Recall that the uMatrix add-on provides features for blocking external resources, similar to a firewall. In its purpose, uMatrix resembles NoScript, but provides more flexible means of selective blocking. Blocking rules are set as a matrix of three axes: the source site opened in the browser, external hosts from which additional content is loaded (for example, ad network servers), and request types (images, Cookies, CSS, JavaScript, iframes, etc.). ). The blocking interface shows for the current site what other hosts are being accessed and what type they are, allowing you to quickly block unnecessary external requests.
Source: opennet.ru