Lead dev of up-and-coming browser blocks anti-ad/tracking extension in violation of the philosophy of Palemoon, nerd rage ensues.
35 2017-08-27 by snallygaster
The browser: Palemoon
Its slogan: Your browser, Your way.
Will this kill the browser's momentum? Stay tuned!
31 comments
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1 Miguk_Saram 2017-08-27
That's pretty bold to criticize Snally's sentence structure. Are we going to see a showdown between the two most powerful r/drama posters?
1 snallygaster 2017-08-27
Where did that quote come from?
1 BasicallyADoctor 2017-08-27
OMG!!!! I suggested this the other night to some dudes on the discord! It's from my post a while back, didn't get much attention but someone suggested it and I can't believe it but it actually is a meme now! A ha!
1 Notthehalf 2017-08-27
You can kys now, you life is complete and you will live on in a meme forever.
1 Fucking_Christ 2017-08-27
"""malware"""
1 glmox 2017-08-27
well this is a cool new adblocker to add to my collection
1 snallygaster 2017-08-27
From what I've heard Chrome blocked it a few months ago, so you're shit outta luck unless you're using a meme browser. Seems like a great extension, though.
1 glmox 2017-08-27
yeah chrome did but firefox didnt so it's still usable even if youre not a hopeless nerd
1 SineadObama 2017-08-27
yeah, but if you're a hopeless nerd you can still use it on chrome, it just takes more steps
1 Ed_ButteredToast 2017-08-27
ELI5 Adnauseam?
1 SineadObama 2017-08-27
Ad networks that provide ad buyers with sophisticated tracking data about you are able to charge more. (E.g. you'd probably pay more to know the median age of who clicks your ads) They have to charge more because they spend more money on people who make that sophisticated tracking data possible (analysts, devs, etc).
AdNauseam pollutes their data with fake clicks, it makes it less valuable. Those ad networks which do the most tracking stand to lose the most money; that is, unless they're able to perfectly filter out all adnauseaum clicks.
1 Ed_ButteredToast 2017-08-27
Wow! That's petty good. Thanks!
1 flipkt 2017-08-27
Except it's not. It's a meme addon pushed by the rebellious teens of the internet. Vigilantes who go out of their way to "reduce profits for ad tracking companies" by reducing their own security, while they could just care about their own security and use umatrix like everyone else. Not a good idea to install it.
1 Ed_ButteredToast 2017-08-27
Well damn! Btw i wasn't going to install it anyway. uBlock Origin is enough for me.
1 flipkt 2017-08-27
ublock is good. Just enable all third party filters and enjoy the internet.
1 ATissu 2017-08-27
How does adnauseaum reduce security?
1 75962410687 2017-08-27
Go home google
1 Theiuhrrichs 2017-08-27
how does false ad clicking compromise security, dipshit?
1 botchlings 2017-08-27
Thanks. Just installed.
1 MisterHundred 2017-08-27
i think you got that the other way around. chrome is the meme browser at this point.
1 Fucking_Christ 2017-08-27
You can still use it on chrome actually, you just have to manually install it.
1 eightysixed86 2017-08-27
That extension sounds like garbage. I don't want something clicking things behind my back, that's a recipe for getting exploited.
1 flipkt 2017-08-27
It IS garbage. You simply do not install addons that click on random links without your permission. It's security101 FFS.
1 RenegadeJoeson 2017-08-27
oh. you are alive. so there.
1 snallygaster 2017-08-27
I was dead?
1 RenegadeJoeson 2017-08-27
For a while
1 wootfatigue 2017-08-27
Yeah. I started searching for you. More so than usual. I was worried.
1 makes_people_cringe 2017-08-27
botnet targets the goynet once again
1 Pepperglue 2017-08-27
Dis gon b gud
1 michgot 2017-08-27
This isn't 1990s furry drama, what's going on?
1 flipkt 2017-08-27
This had barely any momentum to begin with.
1 LemonScore 2017-08-27
Pale Moon is old as hell, the only place it's coming is in ur nan's pussy, m8