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Wow this is BAD this is soooo bad. The company behind Adblock Plus is very evil.

- "Acceptable Ads" aka extortion money enabled ads enabled by default.

- Their CEO made money with scamming sites.

- They used to have a url correction "feature" that added Amazon reflinks to your urls without asking.

- They lied back in the days about that companies can buy themselves onto the acceptable ads list. They claimed it was community decided, that everyone can get on it if the have no annoying ads. Then researchers found out Google payed them 10000€ already and stuff.

- They are connected to various German Media companies that are pushing fake news with their ads on it ...

Fattr on the other Hand was made by this awesome guy form the pirate bay who has a great vision for the web. The two now fit together at all if you ask me.

I switched to a Addon Fork (True Adblock or something) that had the "Acceptable Ads" removed very early on. Then swiched to uBlock origin. So much better in EVERY way. Guy who does it does not even want (last I checked) donations, no BS company that wants to make money, is dishonest ... behind it. Technical faster, much better UI, better list of filters easy checkable on one giant page the way it should be. Can praise it enough. Seriously if you are reading this install uBlock Origin NOW!

I think it sad that so many people are to hostile toward the GPL and the FSF, especially GPLv3 my license of choice.

I love the GPLv3 because it ensures user freedom all the way and I think people who claim that is not "open" because of that totally miss the point. It makes sure the software stays open for the users. But of course the big companies who want to close down their stuff, abuse open source to use in in their proprietary stuff they make just for profit maximization (debatable if this even makes a difference)

I see all the red Flags and I am totally with the articles author on this one. I mean Microsoft is part of the Linux foundation and all this huge companies. They are in there to push their agenda and its obviously not freedom and transparency for the user. I think its sad how many people here in the comment section are really fail to see it or intentionally side with this cooperations because they are somehow involved and actually put themselves over the users freedoms.

I wish Richard Stallman would be the same person as Linus Torvalds. I wish Linux would switch over to GPLv3 and a Linux Foundation would be headed by organizations like the EFF, FSF ... not some corrupt cooperations that are up to corrupting this great thing.

I think people should really learn to read between the lines, the signs are clear this is not good. Why would M$ have any interest in Linux or the desktop? Even the companies who use Linux heavy in their servers have actually years of investment into their software for the users that is often still only windows and macOS so why would they want to maintain/rewrite their stuff for Linux desktops? They care about their server farms not about how free their users are.

When big money is involved chances are that its not used for good but rather to gatekeep, protect and maximize.