• @[email protected]
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    -82 months ago

    Your analogy doesn’t work at all.

    If one of the core harms is the removal of income and tracking, ad blockers fall into this category. Ad blockers very explicitly remove these things. The harm is not “Honey stole my income” it’s “Honey removed my tracking and Honey added their tracking.” Read the Legal Eagle case.

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      122 months ago

      I have read the case.

      I don’t enrich myself by using an adblocker. And I certainly don’t enrich myself at other’s expense.

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      122 months ago

      and Honey added their tracking.”

      The key point they were making is that uBO isn’t adding their own affiliate links and stealing revenue they haven’t earned, unlike Paypal.

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        2 months ago

        I wonder if those other “spammy” adblockers do precisely this. Insert affiliate links.

        Doesn’t Brave already swap some ads for their own?