Re:Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons
by cipherzero on Monday December 03, 2018 @04:32PM
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How do you think this add on was working? do you think it was brute forcing the password of all the sites you were thinking of?
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Re:Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons
by __d on Monday December 03, 2018 @10:43PM
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I'm less concerned with the implementation than I am with the principle.
In principle, I have reservations about exposing content to search engines but then requiring payment to read it. Especially if it's non-trivial to filter out the sources that require payment.
But a plugin which works around an attempt to restrict visibility of content to those who've paid for it ... I thnk the intent here is wrong.
I think it's ok to have information that's only accessible to a restricted set of viewers.
It's not that it's not possible. It's not that the implementations aren't dumb. It's that the principle of "if I want it, and I can do it, then it's ok" doesn't really hold up, IMO.