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It doesn't matter if that person was good at his job (which btw from whatever his peers say about him, he most definitely was) - everybody deserves a right to at least be told that…

Only if you're a multi-million dollar corp. Not for the small guy, for e.g, https://blog.readthedocs.com/ad-blocker-update/

Most people in the world won't live their lives this way.

Which is why extensions also nowadays only served via a web store which has moderation policies and moderators which look for this kind of stuff.

If you're looking at it that way, then we should apply even more scrutiny over native apps we install on our machine and not single out extensions. Also, not all extensions run on …

No, GP said to only trust these two extensions and no other extensions. While they are entitled to their opinion, IMO that is such ridiculous. There are many many extensions which …

Also, there is nothing wrong in advertising as a concept. Advertising has existed as long as products have existed. The problem is tracking and data collection/exploitation about s…

>And it turns out 50K rules is actually fine! No its not. Plus, if you combine Easylist with a bunch of additional filter lists, then it very easily crosses 50k.

>ABP is compatible with the new API and will not be affected. Thats just false. Every adblocker using webrequest will be affected, including ABP.

>The industry is a fundamental conflict of interest, designed to convince people in most cases to buy things that they may not need Thats a bold assumption. If I have a business th…

> We can use advertising to create a demand for plenty of things that are not useful. Who decides whats useful for not? Pretty much every company making anything thinks they are us…

>Overall, I think the WHATWG structure, of being open to input from all (instead of pay-to-play), Thats not entirely fair. The WHATWG is also pay-to-play in a way - the browser mak…

Okay, so they have added more people there than the last time I looked (which was pretty much all google except for 1 mozilla person). Thanks for pointing towards that link. Still …

>You can comment on GitHub issues there just fine too. Yes, but (and you can disagree with me here) the W3C has much better international participation and say in standards. I know…

>It's not like anybody of us voted for W3C either You have more of a voice in the W3C than any other standards body (you can comment on the github issues, or join as an invited exp…

>On the other hand, the W3C always was kind of a toothless tiger Not really, it was, and still is, a neutral ground for people to discuss and build consensus on what technical stan…

No, the W3C publishes a lot of standards apart from HTML and DOM, and they would still be somehow involved here too. However, it is indeed sad that the HTML spec is now controlled …

Easylist would be a user created blacklist, right? Very ad blocker I know of uses that.

>Advertisements appear by default, but if a given site annoys you enough, you can go into your ad blocker's preferences and add it to your blacklist, and then you'll never see any …

>Companys have turned keeping those settings you want into a chore, constantly updating away the users work, pushing in a war of attrition their preferred settings - and sometimes …

I on the other hand am fine with some ads, as long as they are not annoying or don't track me. I am willing to deal with ads which don't do that in exchange for consuming more cont…

As long as those ads are not annoying. I'm guessing that the ads from google and fb still need to pass the acceptable ads guidelines.

>Microsoft tried that, investing in easier to use GitHub tooling to allow a wide range of people to submit pull requests to update/fix bugs in the W3C HTML standard. "If you build …