https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/5184#issuecomment-1829172308
Twitch is a dangerous website, the extension probably won’t be back. They could still easily target you at any time and you are just lucky they are sending ads. After some time of using the extension twitch will react and become even more toxic.
Twitch even has a network sniffer in its source code (among other things), its so much worse than just ads, some of these experiments are basically malware/pup that no-one would install on their device willingly, these instances aren’t just left over code from some library they are deliberately crafted experiments that are present in the active code path.
The duck did I just read, some AI is attempting SEO or something?
What an absolute garbage statement devoid of any proof nor tbh technical possibility to implement.
MostlyJustBored’s account 3 weeks old with no history. We should take whatever that guy says with a grain of salt.
Agreed.
Maybe you should update your post to reflect that, because right now it’s kinda clickbaity
Is “new” good enough?
I doubt it’s just SEO… The fact that his first attempt at the comment was deleted by uBlock’s team and that his claim to be the developer of a now pulled Twitch adblock extension makes this interesting
If this was true, we would have much bigger problems than twitch. The dude determined twitch was spying on you based on function names (allegedly)
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That is, they claim to be. While I don’t know much JavaScript, someone below claims it’s not valid JavaScript
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Schizo post?
This is what it feels like to interact with the Linux/opensource/selfhost people sometimes.
“bUt ThEy CaN wAtCh YoU!!1!”
I mean they can watch and monitor your activity on their website, and are probably partnered with many other websites to collate data on your interests and beliefs to feed into a chunky advertising algorithm sooooo…
But you didn’t want to hear that, did you?
We all know that to a degree, but do you really think they’re in collusion with the US government to jail anyone who mentions it?
I also don’t think the dude gave anywhere near enough information to explain why search engines and browsers should be blocking access to Twitch. They made a lot of claims, but no proof.
Yeah. Just to clarify, I didn’t mean to try to validate conspiracy theories like these and wasn’t suggesting that this guy is right, but that it’s wrong to ignore the large amount of data that closed source applications oftentimes do collect on you.
