• CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4662·
    5 months ago

    The only mistake Billy made is giving anything to AdBlock Plus, the people who have sided WITH the ads, instead of uBlock Origin, the true MVPs of the ad blocking world. I guess uBlock doesn’t accept donations unfortunately, but still, ABP is shady and I would not support them.

        • hedgehog@ttrpg.networkEnglish
          64·
          5 months ago

          They aren’t. From a comment on https://www.reddit.com/r/ublock/comments/32mos6/ublock_vs_ublock_origin/ by u/tehdang:

          For people who have stumbled into this thread while googling “ublock vs origin”. Take a look at this link:

          http://tuxdiary.com/2015/06/14/ublock-origin/

          "Chris AlJoudi [current owner of uBlock] is under fire on Reddit due to several actions in recent past:

          • In a Wikipedia edit for uBlock, Chris removed all credits to Raymond [Hill, original author and owner of uBlock Origin] and added his name without any mention of the original author’s contribution.
          • Chris pledged a donation with overblown details on expenses like $25 per week for web hosting.
          • The activities of Chris since he took over the project are more business and advertisement oriented than development driven."

          So I would recommend that you go with uBlock Origin and not uBlock. I hope this helps!

          Edit: Also got this bit of information from here:

          https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/32ory7/ublock_is_back_under_a_new_name/

          TL;DR:

          • gorhill [Raymond Hill] got tired of dozens of “my facebook isnt working plz help” issues.
          • he handed the repository to chrismatic [Chris Aljioudi] while maintaining control of the extension in the Chrome webstore (by forking chrismatic’s version back to himself).
          • chrismatic promptly added donate buttons and a “made with love by Chris” note.
          • gorhill took exception to this and asked chrismatic to change the name so people didn’t confuse uBlock (the original, now called uBlock Origin) and uBlock (chrismatic’s version).
          • Google took down gorhill’s extension. Apparently this was because of the naming issue (since technically chrismatic has control of the repo).
          • gorhill renamed and rebranded his version of ublock to uBlock Origin.
          • IDew@lemm.eeEnglish
            21·
            5 months ago

            Some people are so greedy smh

            I just love how Raymond thinks about donations. “Money is not my motivation.” And forwards to the people that contribute the most by provoding filter lists for everyone!

    • IllNess@infosec.pubEnglish
      23·
      5 months ago

      Technically we are just keeping the waters clean of unusable, useless garbage. The ad corps are invading our waters.

    • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
      42·
      5 months ago

      Yeah, if your going to support something support the open source project that doesnt advertise

    • Mr_Wobble@lemm.eeEnglish
      351·
      5 months ago

      If you love a creator buy their merch, sub their patreon, mail them a coupon for a free sandwich, but for fuck’s sake DON’T buy youtube premium to try and support them.

      • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        111·
        5 months ago

        I lack the money to buy something from every creator I watch (literally over 100 channels subbed to), and premium genuinely does pay them more than ads. Sure, like half is going to google, but it’s definitely the easier way to support the creators that does actually pay them.

        • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
          6·
          5 months ago

          Nebula might be the answer for you. A low annual fee means every video you watch gives a portion of that fee to the artist.

      • Catsrules@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        Why not?

        If i am going to be supporting creators I think YT premium would be the way I would do it.

        YouTube Premium is super helpful in distributing money automatically to creators without needing to think about it.

        I have many many creators I tune in and out of I am not going to be trying to manage all of their patreons and trying to manage all of that.

        Honestly I have to much crap already, 99% of merch is just garbage IMO that i will never use and don’t need.

      • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        4·
        5 months ago

        Yes, but if I was only doing it for no ads, I’d rather just use ad block. Instead, I’m doing to to support the creators I watch in the laziest way possible, because I’m letting Google do all the work to spread the money out.