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The author claims that Adblock asking for donations is hypocritical. It is not. Hypocritical would be if the Adblock+ website had advertisements which were au
by batiudrami 14y ago
The author claims that Adblock asking for donations is hypocritical. It is not. Hypocritical would be if the Adblock+ website had advertisements which were automatically whitelisted [1]. This is just asking for money for a useful tool, which is where the internet is headed.
[1] I seem to recall this actually happening for a plugin, but couldn't find it.
- samuellb 14y agoNoScript used to unblock its own ads from AdBlock+ when installed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoScript#AdBlock_Plus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoScript#AdBlock_Plus
- krichman 14y agoNoScript also whitelists the websites of its author by default. I have a bittersweet relationship with that plugin.
- lmm 14y agoNetscape 7-ish, the first release with a popup blocker, famously whitelisted the netscape site which was also its default homepage. So the first thing you'd see on installing it was a popup ad telling you about the new version of Netscape which now included a popup blocker... yeah
- flyinRyan 14y ago>This is just asking for money for a useful tool, which is where the internet is headed. Wow, I hope not. Ad based revenue is bad enough, but panhandling?