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Moq, an open source mocking library for .NET, is harvesting emails because nobody wants to pay the dev

https://github.com/moq/moq/issues/1372#issuecomment-1670865839

The developer finally grew a spine and realized he didn't want to do it for free. So he added some code to his library (SponsorLink) that runs in your IDE, reads your .gitconfig, checks if your email address is registered as a sponsor, and possibly slows down your build if it's not.

Reddit reactions:

https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/15m2q0o/moq_a_net_mocking_library_now_ships_with_a?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/csharp/comments/15m2lg2/moq_now_ships_with_a_closedsource_obfuscated?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/dotnet/comments/15ljdcc/does_moq_in_its_latest_version_extract_and_send?sort=controversial

I wonder if anyone at Microsoft uses this internally 😂 Hope they get their emails harvested

The Github issue and Reddit threads on this are pretty calm. Maybe there will be more drama in the coming days/weeks, when companies forbid their employees from using this library, and code monkeys have to rewrite all their unit tests. Redditards are trying to reportmaxx SponsorLink but nothing has happened yet.

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