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I admit the line "Ghostery and I have both decided that it doesn't serve our goals or beliefs well enough" does make me wonder what Ghostery's input in this dec
by chipotle_coyote 11y ago
I admit the line "Ghostery and I have both decided that it doesn't serve our goals or beliefs well enough" does make me wonder what Ghostery's input in this decision was. A previous post indicated a future release of Peace would have brought a similar granularity level for individual tracker/network blocking that the Ghostery desktop extension provides. If that's enough nuanced control for the desktop, why isn't it for mobile?
Having said that, though, I've followed Marco's writing/podcasting long enough to generally take him at his word. He's been pretty forthright about why he makes the choices he does and acknowledging things he considers mistakes. I noticed that several fairly big names in the Mac blogging/podcasting space came across the last couple of days as very hostile to the notion of ad blockers. Imagine having people you respect, work with at times and have considered friends for years attack the essential concept underpinning your new application as an immoral action that will destroy their livelihood. Given that, I don't find the "I stopped feeling good about this" explanation at all hard to swallow.