Comment by bigstrat2003
8 months ago
Nothing is wrong with doing both. But when the reply to "this site does shady shit" is "just run this addon", it comes across with a subtext of "stop whining, you can solve it yourself". Perhaps not intentionally, but that is how it generally comes across.
It was only meant as a pragmatic here-and-now way of dealing with the issue, for the hn crowd. Most people are helpless victims.