… he made plenty off the product and made additional when he sold. Devs ability to make money has nothing to do with companies coming in and injecting malware to the service.
Any threat actor group with sufficient funds from various campaigns, spyware, etc could use said funds to buy out a dev, owner, etc.
Not to mention state-sponsored threat actors. This is the perfect example of distracting from the fact of what happened.
Good catch! Missed that one
For anyone interested - I’d you are using umatrix to block shit you can punch these lines into a new text file and import as blocklist, then commit it with the tiny arrow that points left toward the permanent list to save it permanently:
* www[.]googie-anaiytics[.]com * block
* kuurza[.]com * block
* cdn[.]polyfill[.]io * block
* polyfill[.]io * block
* bootcss[.]com * block
* bootcdn[.]net * block
* staticfile[.]org * block
* polyfill[.]com * block
* staticfile[.]net * block
* unionadjs[.]com * block
* xhsbpza[.]com * block
* union[.]macoms[.]la * block
* newcrbpc[.]com * block
Remove the square brackets before saving the file - these are here to prevent hyperlinks and misclicks.
Edit: this is not a bulleted list, every line must start with an asterisk, just in case your instance doesn’t update edits made to comments quickly.
Edit2: added new IOCs
Edit3: MOAR IOCS FOR THE HOARDE
This has almost nothing to do with what you’re talking about.
A Chinese company bought the domain and the service in February and are attacking people in highly specific conditions. (Mobile devices at specific times)
This is an attack. Not negligence, not an uh oh oopsie woopsie fucky wucky. Attack.
Intuit uses pollyfill… and a lot of people use that service.
Cloudflare and fastly wouldn’t be setting up mirrors if it weren’t still being used, I can guarantee that.
I too like posting cryptic, non-detailed complaints with minimal to no explanation, logic, or rationale for the express intent to sow confusion and chaos while simultaneously standing for nothing
/s
You should probably see an optometrist
No difference imo
I think most would much rather screw the middleman (Subscription services, publishers, etc) pirate the material, and then send money directly to the creator if they like them.
I don’t like that these businesses can tell you that you’re gonna get something but hide the actual pertinent details like:
People have no problem buying an item as it’s marketed, but when you start fucking with and scamming/tricking consumers is when you really kick the fucking hornets nest.
I’ve also seen others mention that sometimes pirating the material meant more freedom with the content they now own a copy of. With 3rd party self hosted streaming services you can do cool things like watch stuff with your friends, watch stuff when you’re away from home, etc.
There used to be a time prior to throw away consumerism where you bought something and it was yours. You buy a painting? It’s yours to resell. Buy a record? Play it with some friends or sell that too.
A long time ago these greedy piggy middleman stepped in and started inflating with bullshit tactics like reducing your degrees of freedom with your newly owned product.
They want you to believe in this new world where you don’t get physical anything, everything’s restricted, milked until bleeding, leaving everyone wondering why everything “sucks” all of a sudden.
Cough cough, tv, movies, games rn unless made my smaller studios
I’ve got an interesting book for you!
How Music Got Free (nonfic piece about 90s-early 2000s piracy)
Nice! Thanks for sharing!
Seems like a cool website, added to my list thanks!
Can you speak more to this? Why is this a good and sustainable solution we should consider?
Yeah let me just go to the super informative and trust worthy windows copilot .news website
Definitely a good source for my news consumption lmao
I’m not even going to spend the time reading an article from fucking pc games n .com.
I don’t give a fuck about how many accounts logged in, especially considering how many bot/alt accounts are around. I don’t need to read work from some “journalist” who thinks they can push the weight of fact around with the support of 3rd hand hearsay.
Hard pass + downvoted
Wow their response says it all “by tattling on us you’re making everyone else really really angry”
Fucking high school shit. These people make my skin crawl. Hope the hackers never stop trying to disrupt activation blizzard
Ofc it was .ml
Not at all what I meant. The premise was that this wouldn’t happen if they were being paid fairly. Supply chain attacks happen with or without fair pay.
Look at what happened with the XZ backdoor. Whether or not they’re getting paid just means a different door is opened.
The root of the problem is that we blindly trust anyone based on name-brand and popularity. That has never in the existence of technology been a reliable nor an effective means of authentication.
If it’s not outright buying out companies it will be vulnerabilities/lack of appropriate management, if it’s not vulns it’ll be insider threat.
These are problems we’ve known about for at least a decade+ and we’ve done fuck all to address the root of the problem.
Never trust, always verify. Simple as that.