Another Reminder to Delete GitHub and Never Host/Lodge Any Code There
Microsoft plays "software police" (even in Free software; it's raiding the competition)
"Microsoft Shithub took down Bypass Paywalls," Ryan informs us. "They also took down the uBo rules that helped disable paywalls. According to Hacker News, Microsoft Defender was also constantly false-flagging it as malware."
To quote one comment: "The last couple of versions I tried to download gave TROJAN warnings from MS Defender. I had created an issue on the project notifying the developer, and I understood he was changing things to not give a "false positive". Perhaps GitLab didn't think they were false positives?"
Another comment: "Yeah this is not a DMCA thing, there is nothing copyrighted in the code. The core problem is the newspapers wanting their cake and eat it. They want those sweet google hits but they don't want to give their articles to readers without payment. So there's always a way around it if you can manage to fake a google spider. For me the current model is so broken. I end up on lots of different newspaper sites. But no, I'm not going to sign up for a subscription to the washington post or whatever to view 1 or 2 articles per month. That's just ridiculous, I don't even live in America. I subscribe to the local paper because it has content I read every day. If I'd subscribe for every article I get referred to by google or here on HN I would spend hundreds in monthly subscriptions :P It's just not a reasonable ask."
"What do they even want paid for?" Ryan asks. "Even NPR has been polluted full of clickspam that was obviously written on an iPhone complete with autocorrect fails and incorrect punctuation."
We've long warned that GitLab (as in GitLab.com) is a risk and it'll soon be taken over by a larger company by all indications. It's sort of proprietary and it's failing commercially, just like GitHub did. It's not free hosting and it was never free.
Folks should stop outsourcing their code repository/ies if they wish to control their destiny and not get pushed around by corporate lawyers of some hostile party such as Microsoft. █