Comment by tangue 8 years ago Time to write Adblock for code editors. 8 comments tangue Reply Cthulhu_ 8 years ago Or just fork the project before ads were added. Or not install the plugin. tangue 8 years ago Sure. But Electron is basically a browser and given our experience with browsers there's a long list of problems coming for Atom users. avaer 8 years ago Kite is (was?) apparently expanding to more plugins, and also doing it to existing plugins.That's not a battle you can win with manual diligence. StavrosK 8 years ago It's a battle you can win with forking and shunning any plugins they take over. That will show developers that injecting Kite into your popular project leads to it becoming very unpopular, very quickly. 3 replies → bluepeter 8 years ago Although, we could create a machine learning plugin that uses a cloud service to detect Kite-infected plugins? ;)
Cthulhu_ 8 years ago Or just fork the project before ads were added. Or not install the plugin. tangue 8 years ago Sure. But Electron is basically a browser and given our experience with browsers there's a long list of problems coming for Atom users. avaer 8 years ago Kite is (was?) apparently expanding to more plugins, and also doing it to existing plugins.That's not a battle you can win with manual diligence. StavrosK 8 years ago It's a battle you can win with forking and shunning any plugins they take over. That will show developers that injecting Kite into your popular project leads to it becoming very unpopular, very quickly. 3 replies → bluepeter 8 years ago Although, we could create a machine learning plugin that uses a cloud service to detect Kite-infected plugins? ;)
tangue 8 years ago Sure. But Electron is basically a browser and given our experience with browsers there's a long list of problems coming for Atom users.
avaer 8 years ago Kite is (was?) apparently expanding to more plugins, and also doing it to existing plugins.That's not a battle you can win with manual diligence. StavrosK 8 years ago It's a battle you can win with forking and shunning any plugins they take over. That will show developers that injecting Kite into your popular project leads to it becoming very unpopular, very quickly. 3 replies → bluepeter 8 years ago Although, we could create a machine learning plugin that uses a cloud service to detect Kite-infected plugins? ;)
StavrosK 8 years ago It's a battle you can win with forking and shunning any plugins they take over. That will show developers that injecting Kite into your popular project leads to it becoming very unpopular, very quickly. 3 replies →
bluepeter 8 years ago Although, we could create a machine learning plugin that uses a cloud service to detect Kite-infected plugins? ;)
Or just fork the project before ads were added. Or not install the plugin.
Sure. But Electron is basically a browser and given our experience with browsers there's a long list of problems coming for Atom users.
Kite is (was?) apparently expanding to more plugins, and also doing it to existing plugins.
That's not a battle you can win with manual diligence.
It's a battle you can win with forking and shunning any plugins they take over. That will show developers that injecting Kite into your popular project leads to it becoming very unpopular, very quickly.
3 replies →
Although, we could create a machine learning plugin that uses a cloud service to detect Kite-infected plugins? ;)