How do you know this was actually copied from your code? Is there a link that I've missed to a source for the Chrome version?
But the source is not a 1:1 copy, they functionally copied it. Although the source is very similar and derivative.
May I ask what your motivations are for open sourcing it at all?
Also I don't want to seem like I'm defending their actions, and I don't think any other commenters here are - copying your idea, directly or not, and then responding the way they did, is very toxic. But, unfortunately, this is the 'risk' one has to accept when open sourcing stuff.
I wouldn't have minded at all if they had given me a shoutout, which is all the license requires.
Ah well. It's a compliment in a way ;) Anyway I hope this doesn't discourage you from writing more free software in the future
They had the option to message me privately - they did not take that option
"I obviously probably had your idea in the back of my mind" Is what this extensions creator said when I told them it hurt my feelings they didn't even mention that they based it off of my free open source project & extension I had shared days earlier (that they commented on).
Document their timeline, versus the timeline you made and continue to make your updates.
Is there a feature you could add? Like muting the sped up ads? If you can demonstrate an "echo" of features, that'll go a long ways to proving your position.
But can you do anything about it? Not really, unless you hire a lawyer in their jurisdiction.
I had this problem back in Y2K when someone was stealing my work and not attributing it to me. They even stole the history portion, and simply cut/replaced with their name, using the exact same wording. But all I could do was annoy the hell out of them until they stopped. I actually found the customer they were dealing it off to, and informed them, using the wayback machine to prove that everything in their docs was actually my material. That finally put an end to their shenanigans.
That was just a cheeky response they gave me after I reached out on Sunday (8 days after my post).
> Document their timeline, versus the timeline you made and continue to make your updates.
They first posted theirs 4 days after my Show HN which went viral on r/webdev. I assumed they had just come to it on their own and I didn't realize they had seen & commented on my work until Sunday (8 days after the Show HN).
I mention this in the referenced post https://github.com/rkk3/ad-accelerator/blob/main/lessons_pos...
>Is there a feature you could add? Like muting the sped up ads?
Muting the ads was in the original. But in terms of another feature another member of the community contributed a PR that adds support for Hulu.
You can outcompete with power features (which is the Linux vs Windows tactic), and watch for them to suddenly get something similar in the back of their minds again.
It's unfortunate, but literally without a fully fledged legal department, your options are at street level only.
But speaking of legal action. I think of the terms: slander, libel, defamation, misleading and false accusations, and harassment.