and funnily enough uBO author didn't want any money even though he's making our lives a lot better

matheusmoreira 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

I want to take this opportunity to thank Raymond Hill for his enormous gift to humanity. I've done this many times over the years, and it's always worth the time to do it again.

Thank you, gorhill! And thanks to all the people maintaining it and all the filter lists!

	▲	agumonkey 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		seconded

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immibis 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Most adblocker developers throughout history have routinely taken millions of dollars to weaken their adblockers, though. That's why we're all using uBO instead of uB.

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agumonkey 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Must be hard to resist letting some ads through for life changing money...

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immibis 5 days ago | parent [-]

They say everyone has a price. Wouldn't you for ten million? A hundred million? A billion dollars? It would be extremely irrational not to. You could always donate 70% of it to Ladybird, and still come out ahead.

You could always secretly continue helping the adblocking mission under a different name. Even if you signed a contract not to.

	▲	psychoslave 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It's like, what's someone price to commit a genocide? There are people out there, they will stubbornly refuse to engage in such a practice, no matter what amount of economical wealth is promised. It doesn't need to be rational. Rationality is not self justifying anyway. The will to help to build better societies is only marginally rational, all it takes is people with some empathy. Rationality is just better to tackle the logistic, it doesn't provide the constraints on what is deemed valuable.
	▲	agumonkey 5 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		lots of possible paths indeed

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the_af 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Not the same author.

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soulofmischief 5 days ago | parent [-]

Incorrect, Raymond Hill authored both extensions, both being forks of HTTP Switchboard.

Raymond got overwhelmed with managing an open source project of uBlock's size and let Chris Aljoudi take over. Adblock later purchased it from Chris.

Meanwhile, Raymond had forked uBlock, creating uBO, and continued to improve it on his own terms. After seeing what happened with Adblock, he has no intention of selling either uMatrix or uBO.

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the_af 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

> Incorrect, Raymond Hill authored both extensions, both being forks of HTTP Switchboard.

You're right, let me try to amend my statement: at the point uBlock Origin was forked, Raymond disowned the earlier uBlock, and it had become unrelated to him, hence "not the same author" (even if it was started by him). My point was that Raymond didn't want to become involved in the pay-per-ads-let-through scheme the commenter I was replying to mentioned.

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neltnerb 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I love uMatrix, but all evidence is that they stopped developing it in 2021.

https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix

I don't know the implications of that, it's the only tool I've ever found that lets me feel in control of what programs my browser is executing.

	▲	soulofmischief 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		I think uMatrix is the better extension. I use it in tandem with uBO. But yeah, Raymond didn't have the resources to develop both at once and chose uBO which offered a more digestible, install-and-forget experience palatable to a wider audience. Raymond basically said uMatrix was feature complete. But there could be bugs.