擴充套件Pie Adblock侵權uBlock Origin,PayPal Honey團隊再掀爭議
支付動態 · 2025-01-03

Pie Adblock遭控盜用uBlock Origin程式碼,違反GPL授權,其團隊與PayPal旗下爭議的Honey擴充套件相同,引發開源社群對其誠信及商業道德的嚴重質疑

新興的廣告攔截擴充套件Pie Adblock遭指控竊取知名開源廣告攔截器uBlock Origin的程式碼與過濾清單,嚴重違反GPL授權協議,在Reddit和Hacker News論壇引發網友高度關注。

新興廣告攔截擴充套件Pie Adblock遭控侵權知名開源廣告攔截器uBlock Origin,嚴重違反GPLv3授權協議。此事件在Reddit和Hacker News等論壇引發熱烈討論,不僅是程式碼與過濾清單的盜用,更涉及背後開發團隊與爭議不斷的PayPal Honey購物比價擴充套件間的關聯。

uBlock Origin是一款高效能且廣受使用者歡迎的廣告攔截工具,其過濾清單與程式碼皆為開源社群長期貢獻的成果,並採用GPLv3授權。而Pie Adblock則被發現在其擴充套件程式碼中,包含了uBlock Origin的Quick Fixes過濾清單,甚至有部分程式碼片段被直接複製貼上,例如在contentExecuteYouTubeScriptlets.js檔案中,就出現了uBlock Origin的Trusted Replace XHR Response Scriptlet。

由於Pie Adblock並未以GPL或相容授權開源其程式碼,已明顯違反了GPL授權要求衍生作品必須同樣以GPL授權開源的規定。

值得注意的是,Pie Adblock背後的開發團隊與先前因聯盟行銷(Affiliate Marketing)手法,而備受批評的Honey購物比價擴充套件為同一批人馬。Honey在2019年被PayPal收購,成為PayPal旗下產品。

Honey擴充套件本身爭議不斷,簡單來說,其遭控透過兩種主要手法欺騙使用者和內容創作者,其一是宣稱能幫使用者找到最好的優惠,實際上卻常找不到或提供比其他地方找到的還差的優惠,甚至被懷疑與廠商勾結,故意忽略更划算的折扣。另外,Honey會劫持其他人的推薦連結,例如當使用者透過某個YouTuber的推薦連結購買商品時,Honey會在結帳時暗中更換連結,竊取原本屬於該YouTuber的佣金。

儘管Pie Adblock團隊已移除官網上與Honey的關聯資訊試圖切割關係,但此舉反而讓社群對其誠信打上問號。GPL是開源領域的重要授權,其核心精神在於保障軟體的自由使用、修改、散布與衍生,並透過Copyleft機制保護此自由的延續,而Pie Adblock事件則是對此精神的一大挑戰。

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