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Thank you Raymond Hill (programming.dev)
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[-] intrepid@lemmy.ca 324 points 1 year ago

Can you imagine the amount of corruptive influences and persuasions he is resisting?

[-] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 67 points 1 year ago

Insightful point. And it does remind me of the corporate purchase of the Don't care about cookies extension for Firefox (And the Simple Mobile Tools for Android). Luckily it was forked. https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies Open source FTW!
🙂 🐧

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 1 year ago

Simple Mobile Tools was forked into "Fossify *" for anyone interested.

There's a reason uBlock Origin overtook Adblock Plus in popularity.

[-] OriginalUsername7@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

The VLC guy turned down what a quick search is telling me was “several tens of millions” to show ads. I can’t even imagine what getting people to drop ublock would be worth.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't blame him if he took it, but I greatly respect that he didn't.

[-] QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 year ago

Raymond Hill: “Get behind me, Google.”

[-] dojan@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I hadn't even thought about that. Thank you.

What is the decentralised solution?

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