“From the founder of Honey.” Which means that stealing code and affiliate links is just the surface of shady stuff they are up to.
For-profit Pie Adblock (from the founder of Honey) called out for copying uBlock Origin open source code without credit
Submitted 1 year ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/04/pie_adblock_ublock_origin_code/
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FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 year ago
The founder of Honey no longer owns Honey, and hasn’t for some time. It’s owned by PayPal, a much more notoriously shady company that some people still use for some reason.
Bibbiliop@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Now I feel bad. I use paypal because in some cases of purchases it is the only means I can use. What is shady about them?
Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The founder still made it do what it does.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Who in their right mind would use this bootleg piece of shit when uBO exists?
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 year ago
Probably people who see a big banner about uBO no longer being supported in Chrom(e)ium
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Old people who still believe that if you’re paying for a product it must be better, right?
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Isn’t that illegal? What kind of license is uBO under?
sushibowl@feddit.nl 1 year ago
The very first sentence of the article answers these very two questions.
joyjoy@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Closed-source browser extension Pie Adblock was this week accused of copying code and text from rival uBlock Origin in violation of the latter’s software license – the GNU GPL version 3.
Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
GPLv3
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Guy belongs behind bars
muelltonne@feddit.org 1 year ago
Never use a “for-profit adblocker”. Ublock Origin is free, open source and therefore won’t fuck you over. You can guess where this “profit” is coming from when you’re not paying for your “for-profit” adblocker
daddy32@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Most prominently, this includes Adblock Plus, which functions as extortion-ware, extorting payments from ad-dealers to let their ads through.
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We have a problem. People have learned that they shouldn’t use a free VPN. By that logic you shouldn’t use a free ad blocker either. People don’t understand the details enough so they operate on broad ideas.
GekkoState@lemmings.world 1 year ago
There is a difference between “free & open source” and “free because you don’t pay with money”.
The first means it can be peer reviewed by anyone to make sure they aren’t doing anything shady.
ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
I dunno if there’s just a lack of education around what open-source means or what. Like jeez, you can contribute to unlock origin. You can study it and see if there’s anything you disagree with. You can fork it and change it.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 year ago
Can’t save them all.
narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I agree, unless it’s straight up paid software which I usually don’t mind paying for if it’s good and I need it. Although arguably uBlock Origin is so close to perfection that I can’t imagine how a paid ad blocker would hold up.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
What software have you paid for? Over here, proud owner of (off the top of my head) Keyboard Maestro, BetterTouchTool, Shottr, and superwhisper for Mac.
Would be hard to live without these automation/macro, screenshot, and dictation tools!
joyjoy@lemm.ee 1 year ago
For-profit ad blockers make their money from either ad injection or extorting ad companies to whitelist their ads. This is why the original adblock plus fell out of use.