Tell HN: Photopea refuses to create or open files if you have an ad blocker

10 points·mdwalters··16 comments

It works with an ad blocker just a few hours before, so I assume it would be a recent update.

https://i.imgur.com/NAxZQKf.png

Which seems perfectly reasonable considering it's a totally free product, which relies on ad revenue to fund running and development costs?

Why not make it free and open source?

Because being free and open source will not fund running and development costs?

If it's FOSS, then development costs are 0.

That's not what FOSS means.

This reply has broken my brain. Are there seriously people who think like this?

People spend 0 development hours on FOSS? Because that's the only way dev costs are zero.

Well because people need money to eat and because lots of effort would go it it

"People need money to eat" is not mutually exclusive with "writing free and open source software."

"lots of effort would go it it" is true regardless of software licensing.

But the effort would not be compensated by this capitalistic world we live in

It requires work to create and maintain it, so it's reasonable for the developer to be compensated for that work.

It would be great if all software were free and open-source, but it makes it hard to incentivize people to create that software if they're not being compensated.

Photopea has a paid version, so people who don't want ads can just use that version.

Yes, perfectly reasonable. I bought a license for it to overcome this problem.

Already fixed https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/20232

That's quick. Is gorhill a robot?

Clickable links: https://i.imgur.com/NAxZQKf.png

You'll need an ad blocker blocker blocker.

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