It is. I don't use them and recommend uBlock Origin to anyone who asks. But they are correct on this.

The Meta-irony is real... @Ghostery tweet about Guardian "allowing trackers to spy on their readers" while themselves selling their user's data.

That's why I find uBlock Origin so refreshing. The entire ad-blocking universe is so tainted with business interests it's hard to trust any of them. The uBlock Origin developer is genuinely principled from what I've seen.

Who should be getting a MacArthur grant or equivalent. I mean, it's literally gorhill or nothing, it's terrifying. Someone could walk up to him with $10M dollars and say 'Here. Stop making your thing and you can have this money." It would be a fraction of the revenue he's blocking and who could turn it down? Wladimir Palant suddenly became a big fan of whitelisting when he realized how much Google would pay for it. Everyone has a price.

Agree. Although I don't really understand gorhill's refusal to take donations for his work. I hope it's just that he doesn't need it.

If he took those $10m someone would fork it. It's just that no one bothers now that gorhill is running it so well.