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Oh come on, you can't be that cynical? The creator started the project 5 years ago because people around him without technical ability wanted a DNS ad blocker,

by float4 5y ago

Oh come on, you can't be that cynical? The creator started the project 5 years ago because people around him without technical ability wanted a DNS ad blocker, but didn't know how to setup pi-hole. His peak MRR through Patreon was 13$, and he received one or two separate donations of ~10$ every month as well. The servers alone cost him more money than he received. Dutch source: https://tweakers.net/nieuws/191950/openbare-pi-hole-adhole-van-tweaker-freekers-gaat-offline.html https://tweakers.net/nieuws/191950/openbare-pi-hole-adhole-v...

tw04 5y ago
- aulin 5y ago
  where did he say he's not willing to sell or let a steward step in for domain maintainance costs?
- necovek 5y ago
  While they never said they wouldn't hand it over to a steward, it also requires MORE work on their part to vet any strangers to ensure they are not there to abuse the system. Handing it over to another public ad-blocking DNS resolver might be reasonable, but I think it's more honest to disable to service to let users know (in spectacularly failing way, true) that this particular service is going offline (basically, don't transfer the data to a service these customers have not signed up for). Since it's DNS, they could also just resolve everything to their own homepage saying the service is dead, but that would still break a bunch of non-web-browser apps.
orangepurple 5y ago
> Oh come on, you can't be that cynical? Christel Dahlskjaer, the former head of Freenode's staff who transferred her interest in Freenode Limited to Lee, resigned in March. Dahlskjaer, with the help of Richard “RichiH” Hartmann, took over Freenode after project originator Rob Levin (lilo) died in a traffic accident in 2006 and Levin’s brother tried to turn the project into business. She was an employee of PIA at the time of the Freenode Limited transaction. What did Christel Dahlskjaer do next? https://www.indexoncensorship.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/EMK_8241web-1.jpg https://www.indexoncensorship.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04...
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by float4 5y ago

tw04 5y ago

aulin 5y ago
where did he say he's not willing to sell or let a steward step in for domain maintainance costs?
necovek 5y ago
While they never said they wouldn't hand it over to a steward, it also requires MORE work on their part to vet any strangers to ensure they are not there to abuse the system. Handing it over to another public ad-blocking DNS resolver might be reasonable, but I think it's more honest to disable to service to let users know (in spectacularly failing way, true) that this particular service is going offline (basically, don't transfer the data to a service these customers have not signed up for). Since it's DNS, they could also just resolve everything to their own homepage saying the service is dead, but that would still break a bunch of non-web-browser apps.

orangepurple 5y ago

> Oh come on, you can't be that cynical? Christel Dahlskjaer, the former head of Freenode's staff who transferred her interest in Freenode Limited to Lee, resigned in March. Dahlskjaer, with the help of Richard “RichiH” Hartmann, took over Freenode after project originator Rob Levin (lilo) died in a traffic accident in 2006 and Levin’s brother tried to turn the project into business. She was an employee of PIA at the time of the Freenode Limited transaction. What did Christel Dahlskjaer do next? https://www.indexoncensorship.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/EMK_8241web-1.jpg https://www.indexoncensorship.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04...

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