Is all this some sort of reverse psychology to motivate me into implementing persistent rules?

You could just ask for it.

I'm just your average keyboard pounding monkey with some spare time and an upgraded Firefox version that abandoned one of his favorable extensions.

I wrote Lizard mainly for myself because it's fun and challenging (my first WebExtension) and not because of any of the web ideology ideas mentioned (which I rater support and agree with). I was looking for a quick, minimal, thin and simple page manipulation tool. Just for myself at the beginning, and then I thought it would be nice to share.

I'm sorry but for now I have no plan implementing the missing feature that caused this “Take Back the Web” rant. Not from fear of retribution from publishers (?) but from MY notion that persistent rules are not part of Lizard's scope.

And as you stated, there are many tools out there that can do the job you're looking for.

Best regards, and thank you for the review.