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uBlock Origin GPL code being stolen by team behind Honey browser extension

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Re: uBlock Origin GPL code being stolen by team behind Honey browser extension

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Post by cjbgkagh »

max_ wrote: post #9

Why can't people just run businesses decently without deception & scams? I'm sure they can be profitable. This deceptive behaviour actually makes the business loose customers in the long term.

The bad pushes out the good until you’re only left with bad.

A system that tolerates bad actors like this will in time only have bad actors. It’s tolerated because it makes a large amount of money for a small number of people.

Re: uBlock Origin GPL code being stolen by team behind Honey browser extension

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Post by entropicdrifter »

sodality2 wrote: post #10
zb3 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh it gets even better: > Pie Adblock: Block Ads, Get Paid Really? Do people not understand how the economy works or something? Education failed so bad :(

From their home page: > Browse ad-free with Pie Adblock and earn cash rewards for the ads you choose to see. Sounds like they replace the ads with their own, paying you (and surely taking their cut). Sounds a lot like Brave Rewards, similar thing...

I was gonna say the same thing. Brave browser all over again

Re: uBlock Origin GPL code being stolen by team behind Honey browser extension

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Post by iou »

slowmovintarget wrote: post #2

If any software ever deserved being sued into non-existence it is the Honey browser extension, and any other scam software they turn out (Pie Adblock in this case). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc4yL3YTwWk

This is the one worth watching, it’s a total scam and PayPal is fine with it apparently.

Re: uBlock Origin GPL code being stolen by team behind Honey browser extension

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Post by s5300 »

iou wrote: post #15
slowmovintarget wrote: post #2

If any software ever deserved being sued into non-existence it is the Honey browser extension, and any other scam software they turn out (Pie Adblock in this case). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc4yL3YTwWk

This is the one worth watching, it’s a total scam and PayPal is fine with it apparently.

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Re: uBlock Origin GPL code being stolen by team behind Honey browser extension

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Post by api »

max_ wrote: post #9

Why can't people just run businesses decently without deception & scams? I'm sure they can be profitable. This deceptive behaviour actually makes the business loose customers in the long term.

Most do, but the scammers and hustlers often win. When you're scamming and hustling you don't have to do the real work, which means you can spend 100% of your time and energy marketing and you win there.

I'm deeply pessimistic about the future of open source. A lot of people are going to give up on it as it becomes clear that it's just free labor for SaaS companies and hustlers. That and I expect far more supply chain attacks in the future. I'm quite surprised there haven't been a lot more like the attempted XZ poisoning... yet. Or maybe there have been and we haven't caught them.

Edit: I forgot free training data for code writing AI. It's that too.

OSS is one of the Internet's last remaining high trust spaces. It'll be dead soon like all the others. The Internet is a dark forest.

Re: uBlock Origin GPL code being stolen by team behind Honey browser extension

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Post by yoyohello13 »

max_ wrote: post #9

Why can't people just run businesses decently without deception & scams? I'm sure they can be profitable. This deceptive behaviour actually makes the business loose customers in the long term.

My general belief is that you can be a millionaire by acting ethically, but you can’t be a billionaire. Lots of people motivated by money want to be billionaires.
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