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324 points

Can you imagine the amount of corruptive influences and persuasions he is resisting?

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239 points

Pretty sure he has them blocked

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Though you may be right, I have a feeling that he is facing formidable opposition. That may include anything from social engineering to full on psyops.

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Bet he’s had people “happen” to bump into him IRL, and gets pull requests from bad actors that are very subtly trying to take the project in the wrong direction.

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32 points

Raymond Hill: “Get behind me, Google.”

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I hadn’t even thought about that. Thank you.

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66 points

Insightful point. And it does remind me of the corporate purchase of the Don’t care about cookies extension for Firefox (And the Simple Mobile Tools for Android). Luckily it was forked. https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies Open source FTW!
🙂 🐧

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31 points

Simple Mobile Tools was forked into “Fossify *” for anyone interested.

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43 points

The VLC guy turned down what a quick search is telling me was “several tens of millions” to show ads. I can’t even imagine what getting people to drop ublock would be worth.

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29 points

I wouldn’t blame him if he took it, but I greatly respect that he didn’t.

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60 points

There’s a reason uBlock Origin overtook Adblock Plus in popularity.

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2 points

What is the decentralised solution?

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There is and isn’t one. For the add-on itself, you just need forks and more forks. For the lists it pulls from, those are already decentralized, but you’re constantly going to deal with the issue of only the best are used and only the used are maintained and only the maintained are the best.

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