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@haasn

@chrisaljoudi, please consider accepting this pull request and ceasing
your highly unmoral behavior of soliciting donations for the work of
other, hard-working individuals such as @gorhill and @Deathamns.

uBlock is not your project in spirit, only in name, and the fact that
you openly come up with excuses to solicit donations from end users
for a project you had essentially zero influence on is not only an
insult to each and every one of your donors, but also gives free
software developers a bad name in general by providing an
outrageously low example.

In the spirit of maintaining a community which is based on mutual
respect and sharing code, rather than mislabelling stolen code for
profit, I strongly urge you to reconsider your values regarding this
subject and free software in general.

@haasn haasn Remove donation links and add apology
@chrisaljoudi, please consider accepting this pull request and ceasing
your highly unmoral behavior of soliciting donations for the work of
other individuals.

uBlock is not your project in spirit, only in name, and the fact that
you openly come up with excuses to solicit donations from end users
for a project you had essentially zero influence on is not only an
insult to each and every one of your donors, but also gives free
software developers a bad name in general by providing an
outrageously low example.

In the spirit of maintaining a community which is based on mutual
respect and sharing code, rather than mislabelling stolen code for
profit, I strongly urge you to reconsider your values regarding this
subject and free software in general.
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@Gitoffthelawn

I don't know anything about the donation process, but my understanding is that Chris makes the extension available for Safari, which costs money. He also runs ublock.org, which costs money.

Again, I don't know the details, but I think Chris actually donates a significant amount of his own money to this project, as I doubt the donations he receives even match his actual costs.

Chris is not "insulting" anybody, but your post certainly is.

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Commits on Aug 13, 2015
  1. @haasn

    Remove donation links and add apology

    haasn committed
    @chrisaljoudi, please consider accepting this pull request and ceasing
    your highly unmoral behavior of soliciting donations for the work of
    other individuals.
    
    uBlock is not your project in spirit, only in name, and the fact that
    you openly come up with excuses to solicit donations from end users
    for a project you had essentially zero influence on is not only an
    insult to each and every one of your donors, but also gives free
    software developers a bad name in general by providing an
    outrageously low example.
    
    In the spirit of maintaining a community which is based on mutual
    respect and sharing code, rather than mislabelling stolen code for
    profit, I strongly urge you to reconsider your values regarding this
    subject and free software in general.
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<a href="https://travis-ci.org/chrisaljoudi/uBlock">
<img src="https://travis-ci.org/chrisaljoudi/uBlock.svg?branch=master" alt="Build status">
</a>
- <a href="https://www.ublock.org/donate">
- <img src="https://chrismatic.io/oncedonate.svg" alt="Support development">
- </a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
@@ -109,7 +106,9 @@ uBlock is a general-purpose blocker — not an *ad blocker* specifically. uBlock
uBlock blocks ads through its support of the [Adblock Plus filter syntax](https://adblockplus.org/en/filters). uBlock [extends](https://github.com/chrisaljoudi/uBlock/wiki/Filter-syntax-extensions) the syntax and is designed to work with custom rules and filters.
-Free and open-source. For users, by users. If uBlock is useful to you, [donations to support development are much appreciated](https://chrismatic.io/ublock/).
+Free and open-source. For users, by users.
+
+**Note:** There used to be a donation link here, soliciting donations from users. It has been removed due to ethical concerns, and the authors of uBlock express their sincerest apoligies for the unacceptable length of time for which it had been present.
[Feel free to read about uBlock's development philosophy](https://chrismatic.io/ublock/philosophy) and [uBlock's manifesto](MANIFESTO.md).
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