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core-js maintainer threatens millions of users due to new post-install ad policy
- 0x0 7y agoWith a threat like this, I think the best action going forward would be to kick the author off of npm, and re-purpose the npm package name to a frozen-in-time version of a clean ad-free fork of the latest release, perhaps with a deprecation warning
- switz 7y agoisaacs responded below and clarified that he doesn’t feel core-js is in violation of npm’s new policy https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/issues/635#issuecomment-526792928 https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/issues/635#issuecomment-... ICYM npm’s new policy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20838078 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20838078