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It's being reported on HackerNews that the Pale Moon Browser is blocking the AdNauseum extension, an ad blocking extension designed to obfuscate browsing data and protect users from tracking by advertising networks.
The main story link is to the Pale Moon Forum which summarises the issue as follows:
After investigating the AdNauseam extension's behavior and the results for web publishers, the extension has been added to the Pale Moon blocklist with a severity level of 2 (meaning you won't be able to enable it unless you increase the blocking level in about:config to 3). For those unfamiliar with this extension: it generates false ad "clicks" to ad servers in an attempt to generate "noise" for the ad networks in a protest against the advertising network system as a whole.
While the premise behind this is similar to poisoning trackers with false fingerprints (which we are proponents of, ourselves), and we normally let users decide for themselves what they want to do with their browser, we are strictly against allowing extensions that cause direct damage (including damage to third parties). There is a subtle but important difference between blocking content and generating fake user interaction.
[...] Because this extension causes direct and indirect economic damage to website owners, it is classified as malware, and as such blocked.
From the forum threads this decision has been slightly controversial with some users.
If you're not familiar with Pale Moon, it is an Open Source web browser, forked from a mature Mozilla code release, and has been covered on SN before.
[Update: Added text re: blocking level; bolded text that was bold in the original posting. --martyb]
(Score: 3, Disagree) by FakeBeldin on Monday August 28 2017, @06:26PM (1 child)
No need to complain here on SN. This is an open source, Mozilla Public License-licensed project.
Two options:
1. Put your money where your mouth is, and fork it.
2. Stop complaining and fork off.
(h/t Coupling, S3E3, Susan [quotes.net])
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 28 2017, @08:45PM
Yes, I agree with you 100%. Discussing about something you don't like on a web forum about the issues completely wrong. Constructive dialog to explore issues is unacceptable. You disagree with me and so should be silent, or go do your own thing somewhere else. I clicked on this link and was shocked, shocked I tell you, to see people would disagree with my viewpoint. I'm glad you told them to put a fork in it. I fully support a browser that has no touch with it's userbase.
No need for you to complain here on SN about people complaining here on SN (see what I did there). If you don't like what people say you have two options: make your own news website or stop complaining.
Fork it or fork off