[philbarr]

Original author doing a pretty bad job of explaining himself [0]. Mainly:

Anyone who does not like it, please uninstall this plugin.

I will not explain it anymore.

I'm not interested in stealing your privacy.

[0] https://github.com/cnfree/Eclipse-Class-Decompiler/issues/30

[contravariant]

The only acceptable explanation would be that they weren't aware and didn't intend for this to happen.

Any other scenario means that they intentionally and secretly included code into their compiled binaries which posed a security and privacy risk.

[nerdponx]

I wonder about the nature of this scam. It almost looks like it's designed to spoof ad clicks, not direct the user to them.

[0xfeba]

Should contact the ad providers, they'd be happy to chargeback with proof of fraud.

[0xfeba]

From an earlier response in the same thread:

> These codes never worked on user machine. They were used for patching plugin bugs.

Uh huh. If it was such a benign use, why wasn't it in the repository, or mentioned in the marketplace page?