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Most adblocker developers throughout history have routinely taken millions of dollars to weaken their adblockers, though. That's why we're all using uBO instead
by immibis 11mo ago
Most adblocker developers throughout history have routinely taken millions of dollars to weaken their adblockers, though. That's why we're all using uBO instead of uB.
- the_af 11mo agoNot the same author.
- soulofmischief 11mo agoIncorrect, Raymond Hill authored both extensions, both being forks of HTTP Switchboard. Raymond got overwhelmed with managing an open source project of uBlock's size and let Chris Aljoudi take over. Adblock later purchased it from Chris. Meanwhile, Raymond had forked uBlock, creating uBO, and continued to improve it on his own terms. After seeing what happened with Adblock, he has no intention of selling either uMatrix or uBO.
- neltnerb 11mo agoI love uMatrix, but all evidence is that they stopped developing it in 2021. https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix I don't know the implications of that, it's the only tool I've ever found that lets me feel in control of what programs my browser is executing.
- soulofmischief 11mo agoI think uMatrix is the better extension. I use it in tandem with uBO. But yeah, Raymond didn't have the resources to develop both at once and chose uBO which offered a more digestible, install-and-forget experience palatable to a wider audience. Raymond basically said uMatrix was feature complete. But there could be bugs.
- the_af 11mo ago> Incorrect, Raymond Hill authored both extensions, both being forks of HTTP Switchboard. You're right, let me try to amend my statement: at the point uBlock Origin was forked, Raymond disowned the earlier uBlock, and it had become unrelated to him, hence "not the same author" (even if it was started by him). My point was that Raymond didn't want to become involved in the pay-per-ads-let-through scheme the commenter I was replying to mentioned.
- agumonkey 11mo agoMust be hard to resist letting some ads through for life changing money...
- immibis 11mo agoThey say everyone has a price. Wouldn't you for ten million? A hundred million? A billion dollars? It would be extremely irrational not to. You could always donate 70% of it to Ladybird, and still come out ahead. You could always secretly continue helping the adblocking mission under a different name. Even if you signed a contract not to.
- agumonkey 11mo agolots of possible paths indeed
- psychoslave 11mo agoIt's like, what's someone price to commit a genocide? There are people out there, they will stubbornly refuse to engage in such a practice, no matter what amount of economical wealth is promised. It doesn't need to be rational. Rationality is not self justifying anyway. The will to help to build better societies is only marginally rational, all it takes is people with some empathy. Rationality is just better to tackle the logistic, it doesn't provide the constraints on what is deemed valuable.