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Re:Kite is saying farewell, and is open-sourcing all of its ... by ApolIllo on Sunday November 20, 2022 @06:39PM (#33686768)
> developers began noticing something: Kite had quietly injected promotional content and data-tracking functionality into open-source apps the company previously had no affiliation with. The discoveries of those injections, and Kite’s initial refusal to roll them back, led to backlash from programmers who felt the company’s actions undermined the open-source community.

https://qz.com/1043614/this-startup-learned-the-hard-way-tha...

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Re:Kite is saying farewell, and is open-sourcing all of its ... by almog on Sunday November 20, 2022 @06:52PM (#33686881)
I was looking for such comment to understand why the GoodByeAds (which I use with NextDNS) contains a record for kite.com (which means I'll have to add an exception to access kite.com).
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Re:Kite is saying farewell, and is open-sourcing all of its ... by nebulous1 on Monday November 21, 2022 @07:42AM (#33691886)
> functionality into open-source apps the company previously had no affiliation with

To elaborate, they bought the open source projects and put in the content without informing people that they were now in control of the project.

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