Using a method called "cookie stuffing" AdBlock Inc., developer of AdBlock, and Charlie Lee, developer of uBlock Origin, have been able to earn commission from the online purchases of their...
Using a method called "cookie stuffing" AdBlock Inc., developer of AdBlock, and Charlie Lee, developer of uBlock Origin, have been able to earn commission from the online purchases of their respective users.
What are people's thoughts on this? I have personally been using uBlock for nearly two years now and as a developer myself I feel like I let my guard down and blind-sided. While it wasn't my money being stolen, it is still upsetting to me that I could have been indirectly helping Charlie Lee generate a profit by stealing a portion of the money I've spent online.
I'm removing this because you've misunderstood what's happening and are currently spreading false information. Charlie Lee isn't the developer of uBlock Origin, that's Raymond Hill. What's...
I'm removing this because you've misunderstood what's happening and are currently spreading false information. Charlie Lee isn't the developer of uBlock Origin, that's Raymond Hill. What's happening here is that other fake ad-blocking extensions are using similar names to the real ones. For example, the one by Charlie Lee is called either "Ublock" or "uBlocker" (the article contradicts its own screenshot, I don't know which is correct). If you've been using the real uBlock Origin nothing has happened to you.
Using a method called "cookie stuffing" AdBlock Inc., developer of AdBlock, and Charlie Lee, developer of uBlock Origin, have been able to earn commission from the online purchases of their respective users.
What are people's thoughts on this? I have personally been using uBlock for nearly two years now and as a developer myself I feel like I let my guard down and blind-sided. While it wasn't my money being stolen, it is still upsetting to me that I could have been indirectly helping Charlie Lee generate a profit by stealing a portion of the money I've spent online.
I'm removing this because you've misunderstood what's happening and are currently spreading false information. Charlie Lee isn't the developer of uBlock Origin, that's Raymond Hill. What's happening here is that other fake ad-blocking extensions are using similar names to the real ones. For example, the one by Charlie Lee is called either "Ublock" or "uBlocker" (the article contradicts its own screenshot, I don't know which is correct). If you've been using the real uBlock Origin nothing has happened to you.
It looks like this is the original source, and the techradar post is just blogspam that's even relaying some of the details incorrectly: https://adguard.com/en/blog/fake-ad-blockers-part-2.html