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Comment by bsoqk

12 days ago

This is what HN has devolved into: someone taking adware and removing the ads is a "bad guy".

Well, shouldn’t that be up to the original developer? He made a product and let people use it for free. But no-one is forced to use it. And there are other image editors without any ads. Some are proprietary, and some are FOSS, e.g. GIMP.

  • I don't know. Shouldn't it be up to Microsoft whether my copy of Windows reports back all of my personal data? Shouldn't it be up to Dell whether my computer can only boot Microsoft operating systems?