Though you may be right, I have a feeling that he is facing formidable opposition. That may include anything from social engineering to full on psyops.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Bet he’s had people “happen” to bump into him IRL, and gets pull requests from bad actors that are very subtly trying to take the project in the wrong direction.

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 1 points 2 years ago

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