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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago

For-profit Pie Adblock (from the founder of Honey) called out for copying uBlock Origin open source code without credit

www.theregister.com

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For-profit Pie Adblock (from the founder of Honey) called out for copying uBlock Origin open source code without credit

www.theregister.com

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago

cross-posted to:
technology@beehaw.org

Pie Adblock called out for copying uBlock Origin code

www.theregister.com

And, magically, a repo appears on GitHub with attribution

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More than that, they’re also hijacking affiliate links.

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