They behave just like the stack-overflow “elitist”
stereotype 100% established, and it’d be completely understandable for you to want to distance yourself from them asap. It’s already hard enough for any larger body of work to reach any semblance of completion, even without external factors like that acting as motivational vampires eating up your brainspace
and when they do, another will step up to take its place. such is the cycle of enshittification
I don’t understand the downvotes, if I’m wrong or being misled about anything, I’d appreciate if someone chimed in
and just to be clear, I linked directly to the comment I was referring to, that highlighted one of the offers the Hover Zoom+ dev was sent on Jan.25, 2021:
We’d love to have redacted sponsor Hover Zoom+ in a similar manner to how we’re partnering with Dark Reader. See attached for how that partnership has come to life, but we’re honestly super flexible on implementation. We’d essentially love to pay you in exchange for helping us drive users to redacted.
the parent to that comment links to the Hover Zoom+ dev’s public listing of every ad company offer he’s received from 2015 to 2023, found at https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670
Could be coincidence, but I wonder if it has anything to do with the tracking that external ad companies lamprey’d onto it, that I recently saw mentioned over at https://lemmy.ml/comment/2594831
me, who doesn’t care who’s to blame, wishing the issue was fixed by anyone