[Not an issue] another place to drop images

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The other place grew a bit too large.

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Many are not aware about how ABP has been propped-up through astroturfing, so keeping this here for reference for when I need to provide the evidence that astroturfing is an acceptable option for ABP's owners:

Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20120504040231/http://chrome-plugins.org/about-us/.

Excerpts (my emphasis):

Our goal is to create a website that provides a better overview about available plugins than the Chrome web-store by writing impartial and concise reviews about every plug-in [...] Instead of just trusting what the developers write themselves about their product, users should consult reviews from an impartial source such as this website first [...] This website is ad-free and a non-profit project. We only feature high-quality plugins for Chrome, paid sumissions are not be accepted.

chrome-plugins.org (ipaddress.com):

We found 2 hostnames for IP Address 95.130.17.36

• www.sedo.org
• www.chrome-plugins.org

[...]

Creation Date
04/26/2011

[...]

Registrant
Till Faida
Eyeo GmbH

[...]

Technical Contact
Wladimir Palant
Eyeo GmbH

Adblock Plus "impartial" review (source):

Excerpt:

After the installation you will be automatically subscribed to EasyList which removes all advertisements from the internet for you

This is not strictly true: Eyeo's "Acceptable Ads" list is enabled by default (since 2011), so not all advertisements are automatically removed after the installation -- no update to the fake review to mention this important change in the extension.

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http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3pu4sb_mega-meows-compilation_animals:

• I let the video play completely;
• scroll to the bottom of the page, then back up;
• left the page idle a bit;
• click-to-play for plugin was enabled (i.e. no plugins were allowed to execute);
• then assembled the screenshot below.

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Crass incompetence or hidden agenda? For sure you will never see this individual substantiate his statements below (because it's BS).


Source: https://twitter.com/0xUID/status/785192316634013697

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ABP launch time vs uBO launch time:

• top = ABP + EasyList + EasyPrivacy minus "Acceptable ads"
• middle = uBO + default settings, no selfie
• bottom = uBO + default settings, with selfie

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I have noticed that even if wiki is mirrored on few computers, images don't have any backup we can access. So I crawled wiki source and saved them locally, just in case. Every time new image is added, I'm saving a copy with correct (final) file name to be easy to restore. And finally it ended up on Mega - https://mega.nz/folder/HNw3DQoa#wv6iugxFJ-PXPpNpPzNhAg

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I don't know how images are stored, so I have assumed that they are probably kept around until maybe they haven't been requested for a very long time.