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... and it immediately opened a popup with some sleazy ad. Same old, repackaged. So exciting.
This is really not a good way to promote anything. I assume TPB are looking for public sympathy. Pushing mal/ad/bloatware isn't really going to help with that.
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I see an ad if I click on the page.
Get with the times: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/%C2%B5block/cjpalh...
They should try putting the BTC address in a format which you can copy and paste.
I wish the myth that people donate to BTC addresses would hurry up and die. There are few examples of projects that receive significant donations, as far as I know. I'd love to be proven wrong about that, but when I looked at a bunch of donation addresses 6-12 months ago, no website or project got more than spare change from it. There have been some high-profile donations made using BTC, but that's not the same thing…
And as you note, it's not like people are super eager to donate using other methods. (And while some might say that a site like TPB, which attracts "freeloaders", is even less likely to get donations, I'm not convinced -- folks might consider TPB both a service worth paying for as well as a cause worth supporting.)
Of course, the upsides remain. It costs you nothing to post a BTC address on a site, especially if you're already handling BTC. There is no interaction with payment providers and all that jazz. There are no immediate fees. Payments are "anonymous" for both sides, with the usual and serious caveats involved in BTC transactions[0].
[0] E.g. some dude being able to audit your total donation amount from the public ledger. :) Did you write up anything from that research? It's an interesting idea.
... and it immediately opened a popup with some sleazy ad. Same old, repackaged. So exciting.
They should try putting the BTC address in a format which you can copy and paste.
I wish the myth that people donate to BTC addresses would hurry up and die. There are few examples of projects that receive significant donations, as far as I know. I'd love to be proven wrong about that, but when I looked at a bunch of donation addresses 6-12 months ago, no website or project got more than spare change from it. There have been some high-profile donations made using BTC, but that's not the same thing…
Lately it's even easier to justify as the price remains lower, spending a few Euro/Dollar's worth just for the novelty of sending such low amounts without any friction to someone I don't know anything about except I like their work.
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Get with the times: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/%C2%B5block/cjpalh...
I can heartily recommend µBlock as well, it's low on resource usage (much lower than abp) and blocks nearly everything. I do tend to combine it with ghostery/disconnect to be extra sure (not that ghostery is developed by an ads firm, though they say their opt-out options is legit).