dumb-saint

> I don't give a single hoot about tracking and want quality ads. Do I not exist?

Sure, people have all sorts of weird fetishes.

> and that 10% helps develop the program

Develop in what sense? uBlock origin is at least 10% better than ABP just by not doing that.

The _only_ thing people want from such a program is to block all ads and trackers. That's it. That's the feature list. You decide to compromise the single goal to fund further "development"? How does that make any sense?

Good answer, although I would argue that rings in the sense that the author describes confer money and status. Rings that only give you monopoly money, such as HN points, are not really going to lead you to compromise your integrity. They are not really rings in the author's sense, they are just silly games or pastimes.

VC money, on the other hand, is real money... And you need "introductions" to get it. They almost outright admit that the entire thing is an inner ring.

Would I be correct in thinking that most participation in HN is driven by the desire to enter inner rings as the ones described in this text? (e.g. access to VC money)

> It's absolutely preventable, we just have to make the choice to do that.

Hear, hear!

> but by enlarge

It's "by and large". https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/by%20and%20large