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by beardog 2060 days ago
Neat approach! This extension is proprietary (according to license on Firefox Addons site).

I Don't Care About Cookies and UBlock Origin are open source. Given that such an addon requires access to all sites, I have to trust a random french developer/company not to steal my banking credentials.

This is not intended to be hate and I will keep this in mind for the future as this is a good new approach.

I ask that you consider if your soon to be monetized features are compatible with open source.

Best of luck.
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GuillaumeHr 2060 days ago
You are right! To be honest: Ninja Cookie is really young and this is the first time I try to post on hackernews and I didn't plan to get all those comments. Because Ninja Cookie is really young, we are still thinking on our business model. We would like to open our sources so that you will be confident but we need first to find the right business model. No business model = no futur. And we want a futur for our Ninja Cookie. :) Meanwhile, you need to trust us :/
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zamalek 2060 days ago
The reason this comment is probably being so poorly received is that, as users, we have to look no further than the Adblock Plus shitshow. That was a pro-privacy/pro-user addon that was acquired and then silently started tracking users.

We can't trust you in the mean-time because we have hard proof that we should never trust addon publishers, especially where "free" plugins are concerned.

You need to figure out what your monetization is ASAP.

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tpoacher 2060 days ago
Assume I trust you, and tomorrow your CEO changes. Or you're acquired by Google. You're basically asking me to trust Google. And with an addon that apparently:

"needs to: Access browser tabs Access browser activity during navigation Access your data for all websites"

no less.

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samename 2060 days ago
Trust is earned, and unfortunately, hard to come by these days when privacy is concerned.
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okokok___ 2060 days ago
where is the I Don't Care About Cookies source? I can't find it anywhere.
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ffpip 2060 days ago
uBlock Origin > Settings > Filter Lists > 'Fanboy's Annoyances'

If you want to enable the list, toggle the checkbox. If you want to view the list, click the 'eye' logo beside it.

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