Re:Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons
by m52go on Sunday December 02, 2018 @12:43PM
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You could make moral arguments for and against the companies seeking these protections and even Mozilla itself.
Ultimately businesses will always ruthlessly try to make more money, and software will ruthlessly seek a more efficient user experience.
Often these objective clash. Spotify is the obvious example that seemed to offer a solution in the music space. But we have yet to discover such a solution in online publishing.
Re:Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons
by alexandernst on Sunday December 02, 2018 @12:58PM
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Bypassing paywalls is a "more efficient user experience"? Wow... that's a whole new level...
Re:Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons
by thatfunkymunki on Sunday December 02, 2018 @04:09PM
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It pretty easily meets the definition of efficiency- it allows users to do more, in less time, and utilizing less resources.
Re:Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons
by alexandernst on Monday December 03, 2018 @06:01AM
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How about paying? That will let you do more, in less time, and won't require an extra browser plugin, which means that it will use even less resources than using a plugin to bypass the paywall.
That said, you're free to try to get around easy "protections", Mozilla is free to take down your methods for doing that.