I guess we now live in the post-"ads in the npm install log" erapic.twitter.com/pSnBnMDNSg
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To be clear: we got to this point because people want money. As long as we live in a capitalist society, there's no point where people stop wanting more money. That means ads will eventually permeate every electron of our universe. It is/was inevitable
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No amount of revamping open source software funding structures would have prevented this from happening eventually, nor can it make this go away now it's begun
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Advertising in your install log is going to be as simple as dropping a banner ad on your website. Install log ads are going to have all the same problems and very familiar solutions
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But having package repositories forbid ads in the same way they forbid any other unauthorized code execution sounds like a no-brainer. If an install script does anything that hasn't been vetted and specifically approved, that's a security issue.
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