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Maintainer here. My extension is pretty much unmonetizable so any offer I receive would require some degree of a moral sacrifice. The least intrusive offer I've
by extesy 3y ago
Maintainer here. My extension is pretty much unmonetizable so any offer I receive would require some degree of a moral sacrifice. The least intrusive offer I've seen so far is to put a reciprocal link to somebody else's extension inside of mine, kind of like DarkReader is doing on their website. Even though it won't compromise any of my users data, the reason I'm not doing this is because it indirectly endorses that other extension and I don't control what they do with their users data.
- justsid 3y agoI really appreciate the transparency from you. I don't use Chrome anymore, but back in the day I absolutely loved Hover Zoom+ and my wife is still loving it to this day. It's a great extension and having read your comment and the linked Github issue, I feel even better about it. Thanks for your hard work.
- extesy 3y agoThank you for the kind words. I actually publish hoverzoom+ to Firefox and Edge as well (links are in the repo's readme) so you can use it there too.
- justsid 3y agoWow! This just made my day, thanks so much. I don’t know why I never bothered to check if there was a Firefox version. Thank you!
- imoreno 3y agoYou're doing a very admirable thing, and this helps dispel the little voiced but commonly held perception that "everybody sells out" when they get big.
- btown 3y agouBlock Origin is also an incredible success story here!
- chii 3y agoand you are essentially trusting the moral integrity of the current maintainer. why can't there be a method for making sure that such trust cannot be abused? Is this a tractable problem at all?
- PNewling 3y agoYou'd still have to rely on the trust of the original maintainer, but they could set up something like a warrant canary[0], but for if they sold it or if they added tracking items. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary
- chii 3y agowarrant canary assumes the maintainer is under coercion. But if the maintainer is untrustworthy, their warrant canary also won't be trustworthy, since it's trivial for the "sale" and the new maintainers to continue the existing warrant canary as though nothing has happened.
- eipi10_hn 3y agoI don't think there's a solution for it after all. At the end of the day, you need to trust someone / something, unless you are the one who writes the whole code. Which browser are you using?
- donkeydoug 3y agoHi, I used to love hoverzoom... was there a malware scare a while back or am I thinking of a similarly named plugin ? At the time I switched to imagus & adjusted to it. Either way, thanks for turning away the monetization attempts :)
- pynappo 3y agothat was hover zoom (the original) not hover zoom+ (the fork by GP)
- donkeydoug 3y agoah okay, thanks :)
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