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Re:Backyourstack: discover and sponsor your open-source depe... by oliwarner on Monday August 20, 2018 @09:21AM (#17799654)
It's still not no-exposure, and it's still getting a developer in the mindset that just sending out files on a whim is okay.

I'm not wholly against this sort of stuff, I'm sure we've used similar links in the past for CI and coverage, but it seems to be the end of the slope, where we're handing out access to our stuff for something so frivolous. This is the same sort of mechanism that got everybody and their dog's copies of Windows XP infected with trojans in the early 2000s. "Sure, I'll install that toolbar, just let me see Britney naked".

This could be a local, auditable script that fetched a static list of projects seeking funding.

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Re:Backyourstack: discover and sponsor your open-source depe... by thatjsguy on Monday August 20, 2018 @09:33AM (#17799722)
To be fair, I don’t think this is intentionally bad privacy-wise. I think that, uh, a lot of the JavaScript set doesn’t actually know how to write code that doesn’t involve uploading shit to websites. When all you have is a hammer...
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