On: Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web

[k1m]

The Guardian website is horrible when it comes to tracking. They don't tend to mention that in their privacy-focused articles.

Here's a tweet that sums it up:

'The irony is real... @Guardian headline, "The Guardian view on privacy online: a human right", while allowing trackers to spy on their readers.'

https://twitter.com/Ghostery/status/989543132349034499

[TazeTSchnitzel → k1m]

Isn't Ghostery the tracker-blocker that sold its users' data?

[k1m → TazeTSchnitzel]

It is. I don't use them and recommend uBlock Origin to anyone who asks. But they are correct on this.

[nullc → k1m]

The Meta-irony is real... @Ghostery tweet about Guardian "allowing trackers to spy on their readers" while themselves selling their user's data.

[k1m → nullc]

That's why I find uBlock Origin so refreshing. The entire ad-blocking universe is so tainted with business interests it's hard to trust any of them. The uBlock Origin developer is genuinely principled from what I've seen.

[yborg → k1m]

Who should be getting a MacArthur grant or equivalent. I mean, it's literally gorhill or nothing, it's terrifying. Someone could walk up to him with $10M dollars and say 'Here. Stop making your thing and you can have this money." It would be a fraction of the revenue he's blocking and who could turn it down? Wladimir Palant suddenly became a big fan of whitelisting when he realized how much Google would pay for it. Everyone has a price.

[k1m → yborg]

Agree. Although I don't really understand gorhill's refusal to take donations for his work. I hope it's just that he doesn't need it.

[im3w1l → yborg]

If he took those $10m someone would fork it. It's just that no one bothers now that gorhill is running it so well.

[Krasnol → k1m]

- The Guardian website is horrible when it comes to tracking.

- Here's a tweet

The irony is real indeed.

[k1m → Krasnol]

The irony they were highlighting was the Guardian's stated position on privacy, "The Guardian view on privacy online: a human right", and their own complete disregard for that position.

That's quite different from what you appear to be making the irony about.