The only mistake Billy made is giving anything to AdBlock Plus, the people who have sided WITH the ads, instead of uBlock Origin, the true MVPs of the ad blocking world. I guess uBlock doesn't accept donations unfortunately, but still, ABP is shady and I would not support them.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 93 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Some of the block list maintainer do accept donations, if I recall.

[–] ironsoap@lemmy.one 62 points 11 months ago

I did a quick search and they don't make it easy. Peter Lowe's ad and tracking server blocklist is the only one I found. EasyList doesn't seem to have a donation link, nor Dan Pollock at someonewhocares.org. Also worth noting that UBO doesn't take donations. You could always subscribe to AdGuard, but that's mixed.

[–] YourPrivatHater@ani.social 158 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Use uBlock not ABP

[–] riddlemeboner@lemdro.id 191 points 11 months ago (1 children)

uBlock Origin*

[+] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org -61 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Same thing

Ublock is jdut shorter

[–] RandomStickman@kbin.run 141 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It very much is not the same thing

[–] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 54 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh, my bad

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's cool, you're sleepy. We get it

[–] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago

Okie :3

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 64 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They aren’t. From a comment on https://www.reddit.com/r/ublock/comments/32mos6/ublock_vs_ublock_origin/ by u/tehdang:

For people who have stumbled into this thread while googling "ublock vs origin". Take a look at this link:

http://tuxdiary.com/2015/06/14/ublock-origin/

"Chris AlJoudi [current owner of uBlock] is under fire on Reddit due to several actions in recent past:

In a Wikipedia edit for uBlock, Chris removed all credits to Raymond [Hill, original author and owner of uBlock Origin] and added his name without any mention of the original author’s contribution.

Chris pledged a donation with overblown details on expenses like $25 per week for web hosting.

The activities of Chris since he took over the project are more business and advertisement oriented than development driven."

So I would recommend that you go with uBlock Origin and not uBlock. I hope this helps!

Edit: Also got this bit of information from here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/32ory7/ublock_is_back_under_a_new_name/

TL;DR:

gorhill [Raymond Hill] got tired of dozens of "my facebook isnt working plz help" issues.

he handed the repository to chrismatic [Chris Aljioudi] while maintaining control of the extension in the Chrome webstore (by forking chrismatic's version back to himself).

chrismatic promptly added donate buttons and a "made with love by Chris" note.

gorhill took exception to this and asked chrismatic to change the name so people didn't confuse uBlock (the original, now called uBlock Origin) and uBlock (chrismatic's version).

Google took down gorhill's extension. Apparently this was because of the naming issue (since technically chrismatic has control of the repo).

gorhill renamed and rebranded his version of ublock to uBlock Origin.

[–] IDew@lemm.ee 21 points 11 months ago

Some people are so greedy smh

I just love how Raymond thinks about donations. "Money is not my motivation." And forwards to the people that contribute the most by provoding filter lists for everyone!

[–] Banzai51@midwest.social 123 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Ad block is NOT piracy. And use Ublock Origin.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 25 points 11 months ago

uBlock Origin is also not piracy, but it is the real way to block

[–] IllNess@infosec.pub 23 points 11 months ago

Technically we are just keeping the waters clean of unusable, useless garbage. The ad corps are invading our waters.

[–] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 91 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I prefer unlock origin but he got the spirit

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 42 points 11 months ago

Yeah, if your going to support something support the open source project that doesnt advertise

[–] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If you buy premium, do it to support the creators you watch, fuck doing it just for no ads.

[+] Mr_Wobble@lemm.ee 34 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

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[–] probableprotogen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 11 months ago

Yeah just cutout the middle man and support creators directly

[–] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I lack the money to buy something from every creator I watch (literally over 100 channels subbed to), and premium genuinely does pay them more than ads. Sure, like half is going to google, but it's definitely the easier way to support the creators that does actually pay them.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nebula might be the answer for you. A low annual fee means every video you watch gives a portion of that fee to the artist.

[–] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 months ago

The majority of the people i subscribe to aren't on Nebula, so that wont help a whole lot.

[–] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Why not?

If i am going to be supporting creators I think YT premium would be the way I would do it.

YouTube Premium is super helpful in distributing money automatically to creators without needing to think about it.

I have many many creators I tune in and out of I am not going to be trying to manage all of their patreons and trying to manage all of that.

Honestly I have to much crap already, 99% of merch is just garbage IMO that i will never use and don't need.

[–] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you buy premium your doing both.

[–] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago

Yes, but if I was only doing it for no ads, I'd rather just use ad block. Instead, I'm doing to to support the creators I watch in the laziest way possible, because I'm letting Google do all the work to spread the money out.

[–] Titou@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago

ADP betrayed us, ublock origin is better

[–] normonator@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago

Abp is complete garbage. Use Ublock origin.

[–] Dreamless4561@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Should support uBlock Origin and AdGuard, the maintainers of EasyList too

[–] unrushed233@lemmings.world 2 points 11 months ago

uBO doesn't accept donations and AdGuard is a commercial entity that was more than enough money.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 4 points 11 months ago

PeerTube go!