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uBlock Origin is also an incredible success story here!
Yet the very same author turned over the OG uBlock to a shady character, having to launch a competitor to take back the momentum. To this day there is still confusion among normies.
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You'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
warrant 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.
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> Why would money be the only value, that is a really sad view on life. Good thing nobody said that. > The developer gets joy and gratitude, Your average free software doesn't get very much joy and gratitude back from users either. > they can live a happy life. Why bring money into it. Money does not make happy. If the implication was too subtle, the idea is that when you spend a lot of time making something valuable…
The post I replied to clearly equals value with money.
Money is an important type of value, especially the context of labor.
And, let me phrase this very precisely: there isn't an obvious non-monetary value they're getting back that comes close to the effort they put in.
You mentioned joy and gratitude but again I'm not sure how much of that they get back in this situation, plus there is the flip side of lots of complaints.
I don't know what the solution to this is, but I know a few trusted/legitimate companies that sell their user data for around £20/year even after having monetized their users with actual money I will never do this because violating privacy goes against the core of my beliefs, but there is a conflict I can't seem to work out. On the one hand, I KNOW that the vast majority of users prefer to sell their privacy than pay…
From all the data I have, people will definitely pay for extension functionality, though lots of people will write negative reviews unfortunately.
I also use ExtensionPay myself in my own extensions and have found this to be true. I try to get the people who pay and have a good experience to write reviews since they’re so underrepresented in written reviews.
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Is it even possible to not spend money on advertised things?
Mostly by not spending money frivolously.
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At some point a reality check should be possible. Do you find yourself spending money on advertised-things?
That's the metric I usually use. It's absolutely inconclusive, but it works for peace of mind at least. Have I seen any ads for something I bought? Usually the answer is "no". I'm still at the mercy of sort order on sites like Amazon and eBay, but that's much less scary because if I really care, I can sort by lowest price first.
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This would be immediately obvious in a cursory analysis of performance. On-device transcription is not only computationally infeasible, it would also require model capabilities far beyond what is currently SOTA. Google had (and has afaik) significant challenges implementing multiple wake-word detection for precisely this reason. Transcribing a couple of words accurately on-device without a major performance penalty (…
I would have to take your word for it but my phone is able to transcribe speech with no problem and no internet connection. Of course running it 24/7 in the background would ruin my battery, you would have to be smarter than that.
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This seems so weird to me. You're clearly providing value to the world, and according to my moral view, should be entitled to capturing some of that value without resorting to something shady. I'm the founder of Streak where we directly monetize our extension (as do others like Grammarly). Have you tried directly asking your users for $ given the effort you put in?
I can't speak for parent, but some (including myself) see writing free software as an act of charity, done just to make the world a little bit better. In this view, trying to make money from it corrupts the noble mission.
Agreed, making money from charity doesn’t make sense.
Business revolves around secrecy and restrictions.
Whereas open-source revolves around transparency and freedoms…
And if you run a website you get constant emails like this: Hey There, I wanted to reach out and see if accepts guest post contributions or link insertion in existing posts? If so, I'd love to hear more about your guidelines and any specific topics of interest. Thank you for your time, and I'm looking forward to your response. Best Regards, These ones are definitely spammed out en-masse, my site doesn't even have a b…
We run an educational blog for our saas product and we get some legit emails from readers but also a lot of the spam and some of it is scary good. They feed in so much context that it does appear to be a real person and it ends up wasting a lot of time and honestly it's quite hurtful. We spend a lot of time sharing our stuff and these fake connections are a major turnoff. Recently we encountered a wave of "awards sho…
I believe most legitimate visitors send an email shortly after visiting a page with the address while spam emails often have a much longer lead time with new addresses (it takes time to get scraped, put in a database, and then get used).
However this does mean that extended communication on that address and saved addresses will not work well.