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Please. He went from the position of deciding which ads to block for a handful of people to hundreds of thousands literally overnight and decided that was too
by stouset 11y ago
Please.
He went from the position of deciding which ads to block for a handful of people to hundreds of thousands literally overnight and decided that was too much responsibility for himself to handle. Whether or not you agree with his reasoning is immaterial. It made him feel uncomfortable to be in this position, so he made the decision to bow out.
Marco is not the first person, nor will he be the last, to regret the possible consequences of having built a weapon of war. He's simply in the enviable scenario of being able to destroy the schematics.
- spike021 11y agoI thought he was using Ghost's ad lists? I don't think he was making the decisions of which to block at all. He just made the tool that enabled those defined blocks to be made.
- stouset 11y agoThat's a fair point. However, by proxying that list to his users, he's still in the position of choosing which ads to block — even if he's delegating that authority to others (in essence, he's choosing who chooses).
- spike021 11y agoTrue, since he did make some kind of agreement with Ghost (if I recall correctly) basically making a partnership on that end.