“Actors who are asking me to add some tracking code are mostly interested in reselling users’ data,” Anashkin said. “Actors who want to purchase it outright will stuff it with malware depending on their level of greed: hijacking affiliate links, tampering with search results, showing popups with shady websites, etc.”
Anashkin’s experience appears to be fairly common. Developers have discussed these solicitations in online forums and several have written blog posts about selling extensions or partnership offers.
It happened to the original uBlock and then the developer made uBlock Origin.
Been spending the past little while reading the documented offers he gets.
I feel sick to my stomach.
1/25/2021
We’d love to have redacted sponsor Hover Zoom+ in a similar manner to how we’re partnering with Dark Reader. See attached for how that partnership has come to life, but we’re honestly super flexible on implementation. We’d essentially love to pay you in exchange for helping us drive users to redacted.
So wtf does this mean? Is Dark Reader hammered as of 2021?
Props to Oleg/hoverzoom for maintaining and updating this list for all to read. It’s my first time seeing any document of this kind really. Quiet chilling
I prefer to feel proud that there are still people who don’t fall for that and have values. And there always will be.
Wowza. That’s terrible. Thank goodness he hasn’t sold out; I love hoverzoom. If only my freaking work’s IT wouldn’t’ve banned extensions 🙃
Now you understand why your IT do that.
Jesus… it is time to seriously re-evaluate and pare back the extensions I use. Ugh.
What a depressing read, thank you!
The trick is to sell it at a high price and immediately fork. Get paid and fuck off.
Then do it again and again and again. Infinite money glitch. Don’t worry about getting sued after a bit you’ll be rich enough to be immune from prosecution.
I get these offers almost daily for my Chrome extension, and have done for years. I couldn’t do it to the users, but they wouldn’t be making the offers if some people weren’t accepting.
The day he sells out, I’m gonna be like, “you were the chosen one, Anashkin”
They need to name and shame the people reaching out. They keep reacting them.
this is how you burn potential for future relationships
In other words, “retirement fund” or wasn’t offered enough.
Why would I want to have future relationships with shameless criminals?
Yes, criminal activity is everywhere, problem is we haven’t yet forbid selling of users data.
And it’s very unlikely to happen, since our governments are very interested in spying us / buying our data.
The alternate universe where Anashkin doesn’t fall for the dark side
Anashkin skhiwhalker
