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 43 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] intrepid@lemmy.ca 18 points 6 months ago

Your second point is especially interesting, considering the recent xz backdoor. The bad actors manipulated a poor burnt out maintainer for it. In comparison, I'm impressed with gorhill for his perseverance and mental strength. I would like to know how he avoids burn out with such negative influences.

[–] fossphi@lemm.ee -1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Dang, for real? Do you have some more details on this?

[–] homesnatch@lemm.ee 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I think he's using old school speculative "bet", not the new Gen Z meaning

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Lol, it does read entirely differently in the gen z light... good eye! If you add a comma after "bet", it completely changes the meaning. Fun

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

Yeah that’s funny :D

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago

Bet

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

None, it’s from my imagination.

Big bucks, big stakes.

[–] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What's "Mordor Intelligence" -- is that a real thing, or a parody of the surveillance/'defense' industry companies that are coming up with names nicked from LotR? ('Anduril', 'Palantir')

[–] egonallanon@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

https://www.mordorintelligence.com/ They appear to be a real thing. Though naming yourself after the most evil thing in middle earth is a bit in the nose lol.

[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 66 points 7 months 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 31 points 6 months ago

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

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 60 points 6 months ago

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

[–] OriginalUsername7@lemmy.world 42 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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 6 months ago

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

[–] QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 32 points 7 months ago

Raymond Hill: “Get behind me, Google.”

[–] dojan@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

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

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What is the decentralised solution?

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

There is and isn't one. For the add-on itself, you just need forks and more forks. For the lists it pulls from, those are already decentralized, but you're constantly going to deal with the issue of only the best are used and only the used are maintained and only the maintained are the best.