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What's the relation between the Gitlab repository and the Github one? https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

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The Gitlab one is actually maintained. They haven't been using GitHub for a while now. (Plenty of updates to the extension have occurred within the past 6 months, the date of the last commit on GitHub)

The "clean" version is a fork made by someone else, non-clean version has/had Google Analytics in it, and the fork is more actively maintained

The github repository isn't under active development. The gitlab repository exists because a contributor was frustrated with the slow updates, forked it, fixed many bugs and removed google analytics, and actively maintained it.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240114042043/https://gitlab.co...

The gitlab one is "clean". But i don't remember the exact details regarding what it means. Just not to use the "dirty" one.

The clean one is not “clean” in that it still does all kinds of tracking

What do you mean with this?

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/blob/c6...

If you look at the source code in any of the mirrors people have linked, you'll find that the "clean" one that was taken down today does not have Google Analytics.

That’s not the issue. It’s that it tracks in other ways.

Okay, for some reason they took down that one but the original (but not maintained) fork is gone. Fascinating...

They have a point, I guess. It pings home in bpc_count_daily_users.js.

https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/content/sha1_git...

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