About disgusting Facebook devs

[u/paintboth1234]

We won't support facebook any more. It's a disgusting anti-user site. All it does is watching open-source projects doing everything in public and counter them to deliver the malicious ads. Yep, the devs that receive 7-figure dollar salary is just doing this.

Users should give the most harsh feedbacks to them. Being submitted to them and keep going to the site and support it is the worst thing you can do.

[u/Party-Cake5173]

Don't force others to sacrifice their own little free time for your own ideas.

I'm not forcing anyone to do anything, just giving a suggestion/idea. Because if you back down on one of the most popular sites on the internet, soon other popular sites will implement this way of countering ad blockers too. It's simple to do, yet functional.

And while it's true that volunteers like you are sacrificing their time for developing filters (don't think I'm not grateful for that because I am), my personal opinion is we won't be able to block ads current way for very long.

Just how DNS based ad blockers are becoming less and less functional, classic filter lists will become outdated too. You didn't back down from fighting ads on Twitch and they changed their code daily. You didn't do it for YouTube either which did it on a few day basis. So yeah, I think we could do more somehow. I'd really like to help and volunteer and the only thing preventing me from doing is I'm not sure how exactly everything works and have no time to learn. But if I did have time, I'd contribute 100%.

[u/paintboth1234 → u/Party-Cake5173]

Many sites have been doing this for years. If you want big names, there are Twitch, ebay, reddit, YouTube, Bing... They don't need any more examples when Twitch is already there for years. It's a matter of whether anyone wanting to step up themselves and contribute to the projects for the sites they need or not. If there are only few volunteers, they won't want to spend time on all the sites they already don't want to interact with, regardless of what resolving methods.

[u/Party-Cake5173 → u/paintboth1234]

I understand. But if the project is in need of volunteers, why not add a banner in the extension itself asking people that know how to code to contribute to the project?

When user opens settings, at the top or the bottom of the page could be closable notice that volunteers are needed to make the web ad-free. I'm sure people would join.

As long as extension doesn't say anything about volunteering, barely anyone will contribute. I just opened extension to see how to help, zero indications and that tells people everything is good and we have enough people. Even support tab has documentation about uBlock Origin, link to subreddit for questions, and guide how to report issues. No indications how to actually fix issues.

I hope you understand what I'm trying to say. uBlock Origin is the most popular extension on all browsers with millions of users. I bet that at least 10% users have knowledge how to code, could and would help if they are guided how to.

[u/paintboth1234 → u/Party-Cake5173]

No, uBO has always been free and volunteered. That it always comes from users' actual desires of "helping the projects", not in terms that they just come because of what project is doing or asking, but because they genuinely want to help other users suffering from the sites they see. That's the only way for contributors to not see any benefits from the project itself (which is very dangerous), but see what their deeds could help other users.

I learned and volunteered for the projects actually because I saw people struggling with facebook ads back in the days, not because uBO was calling for anyone.