1005
For-profit Pie Adblock (from the founder of Honey) called out for copying uBlock Origin open source code without credit (www.theregister.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
72 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 117 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Who in their right mind would use this bootleg piece of shit when uBO exists?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 6 child comments
    •
  • [–] 68 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    They're offering to pay you to watch ads, same as what Brave does.

    You're going to get people who fall for the "free money" aspect, same as always.

    (Also replacing a site's ads with their ads is exactly the same shit Honey is doing, so it's nice to see that the founder has a single idea and is going to keep going after it.)

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    In the early days of brave it was glorious. Set up max notification on my phone, set to minimise notifications - profit.

    Literally cashed out like $100 this way over the span of about 6 months, before the rugpull, I assume. Ads paying out way less now.

    It was hilarious. For me. The ads were (and I believe still are) primarily advertising other shitcoins hahaha

    Edit: I should note, I used Tasker and did not have to see a single ad.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent