dantheclamman@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoFor-profit Pie Adblock (from the founder of Honey) called out for copying uBlock Origin open source code without creditwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
arrow-up19arrow-down1external-linkFor-profit Pie Adblock (from the founder of Honey) called out for copying uBlock Origin open source code without creditwww.theregister.comdantheclamman@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square11fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
minus-squaremuelltonne@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 months agoNever use a “for-profit adblocker”. Ublock Origin is free, open source and therefore won’t fuck you over. You can guess where this “profit” is coming from when you’re not paying for your “for-profit” adblocker
minus-squaredaddy32@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months ago Never use a “for-profit adblocker”. Most prominently, this includes Adblock Plus, which functions as extortion-ware, extorting payments from ad-dealers to let their ads through.
Never use a “for-profit adblocker”. Ublock Origin is free, open source and therefore won’t fuck you over. You can guess where this “profit” is coming from when you’re not paying for your “for-profit” adblocker
Most prominently, this includes Adblock Plus, which functions as extortion-ware, extorting payments from ad-dealers to let their ads through.