Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store

Re:Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store by fwn on Friday November 30, 2018 @06:10AM (#18568243)

I wonder who's more unethical: The guy who comes in, smashes your stuff and leaves or the guy who comes in, smashes your stuff and leaves a check for you at his place.

I bet that's a common battle ground between consequentialists and idealists.

Fun aside, I don't think the comparison holds up very well. I don't think that anyone has a right to execute code on my devices just because I'm browsing a website. In this concept, "hijacking" ads is completely void of any ethical meaning.

Braves platform attempt is still not very good. A good solution for paying content creators would need to be open, decentralized and accepted by the stakeholders involved.

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Re:Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store by rovr138 on Friday November 30, 2018 @07:32AM (#18568600)

If you consider the page code, you requested it and it’s bundled in there. Same with CSS and JS used for features.

In that case, you requested the page and allowed them to.

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Re:Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store by barnabee on Friday November 30, 2018 @07:43AM (#18568654)

Requesting the code doesn't mean I'm obliged to run all of it. If you serve data to my computer I am free to do whatever the hell I want with it, if you don't like that, don't serve me the data.

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Re:Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store by stordoff on Friday November 30, 2018 @01:49PM (#18571469)

I requested _this_ page, then requested the CSS/JS. I then blocked future requests.

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