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Time to write Adblock for code editors.

• Cthulhu_ 9y ago
  Or just fork the project before ads were added. Or not install the plugin.
  • tangue 9y ago
    Sure. But Electron is basically a browser and given our experience with browsers there's a long list of problems coming for Atom users.
  • avaer 9y ago
    Kite is (was?) apparently expanding to more plugins, and also doing it to existing plugins. That's not a battle you can win with manual diligence.
    • StavrosK 9y ago
      It's a battle you can win with forking and shunning any plugins they take over. That will show developers that injecting Kite into your popular project leads to it becoming very unpopular, very quickly.
      • camiller 9y ago
        Is there a reliable way to search github for projects that are managed by Kite? Looks like it is only mentioned in the readme, and it would be simple for kite to simply not put in references to kite.
        • StavrosK 9y ago
          Can't you do a code search for libraries or server names or something like that?
          • camiller 9y ago
            Probably, but it could be an on-going fight as server names or even library names could change over time. I guess in the long run it will become like any other virus/malware scanning.
    • bluepeter 9y ago
      Although, we could create a machine learning plugin that uses a cloud service to detect Kite-infected plugins? ;)