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My thoughts when reading that (in order): - With as many pivots as Flattr had, it should be called Flattr 5.0 (after reading the headline) - Hmm, actually loo
by hobofan 9y ago
My thoughts when reading that (in order):
- With as many pivots as Flattr had, it should be called Flattr 5.0 (after reading the headline)
- Hmm, actually looks really interesting now, and they seem to have tought about the major pitfalls (after reading the blog post)
- Nope, not gonna touch that! (after finding out that flatter was acquired by the makers of Adblock Plus)
(Oh boy have I made many dismissive comments today...)
- tome 9y ago> - Nope, not gonna touch that! (after finding out that flatter was acquired by the makers of Adblock Plus) What's wrong with Adblock Plus? I use it. I thought it was supposed to be good. Is there something I've missed?
- codewithcheese 9y agoThey charge advertisers to unblock ads. So actually you will see ads as long as Adblock Plus is making money. They are generally seen as untrustworthy compared to something totally free like uBlock Origin.
- blfr 9y agoSo actually you will see ads as long as Adblock Plus is making money. It's literally one checkbox to disable the whitelisted ("non-intrusive") ads.
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- vog 9y agoAs long as that setting is opt-out and not opt-in, they deserve all the criticism they get for this shady business model.
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- CaveTech 9y agoA lot of people have issue with the fact they allow certain ads through if the publisher pays them enough. They claim that these ads are not aggressive or distracting, but the optics are pretty bad. A for profit ad-blocking company that makes money from ads.
- leephillips 9y agoI think this is the main reason basically everyone has switched to uBlock Origin. Which, by the way, works quite well.
- dexterdog 9y agoAnd ghostery
- TorKlingberg 9y agoGhostery keeps trying to steal my attention with annoying popups.
- majewsky 9y agoGhostery also has some tracking built-in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery#Criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery#Criticism
- karrotwaltz 9y agoI tried to switch to the open source Disconnect when I heard Ghostery was acquired by an ad company, but it wasn't on Ghostery's level. The redirect / social button blocker with the "allow once" option is really pleasant.
- eps 9y agoDoesn't Ghostery too make money from selling their hoarded user data to the very same advertisers and marketers? EDIT: Yep, it does - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery#Business_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery#Business_model
- 9y ago
- growt 9y agoI don't get that either. Eyeo is a german company, so the rather strict german privacy laws now apply to flatter. I think thats a good thing.
- bpicolo 9y agohttps://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads They're wishy washy with language, but the long and short is that they charge companies to whitelist their ads.
- growt 9y agoAs I commented above, I think they're providing a service with fighting law-suits for ad-blocking. I use ublock origin myself, but I don't think my parents will ever install it or even read about it. And a company with an interest to make money might reach them and spread the usage of ad-blockers in general.