IvanK_net

90% of my income is from ads. If I could not make money with my website, I would shut it down and would go get hired by some company.

And what exactly is "your personal information", that has been sent to so many websites?

Nobody cares what your opinion about the ad is. If you do not like the "cost" of the item (watching a minute of an ad, to see a 10 second video), just go somewhere else to find an alternative. Or buy it once and never again.

What you are saying is, basically, if someone is selling bread for $100, and they dont let you taste in advance, you are allowed to steal that bread, because $100 is not a right price for the bread.

Could you be more specific? What "3rd parties" are tracking what "behaviour" of yours, and why exactly is it worth so much? And what do you mean by "you" in "tracking you"? Do they know your name?

I own a website www.Photopea.com, visited by 3 million people a month.

Once in a while, I enable adblock detector, and do not allow usrers with adblocks use the service. I wish everyone was doing that.

When you see someone willing to give you a car (or anything else), but they want money in exchange (i.e. sell it to you), you understand, that it is wrong to take the car without giving them money (i.e. stealing).

But when you see someone willing to give you an article, a poem, a song, a funny video, but they want you to watch the ad in exchange, lots of people think it is fine to break their conditions.

It is extremely easy to detect ad blockers on the web. I wish website creators stopped tolerating ad blockers. People would finally learn to watch ads, or pay for stuff, and the creators would be able to create much better content.

We have one type of electric sockets (at least within each country). But there certainly can exist better kinds of sockets than those used in your our my country. But I am glad that we all have same sockets in our houses, even though they are not perfect.

If the better one is expensive (e.g. the creator asks for license fees), we should choose the cheaper one. Just like the VHS has beaten the Betamax.

This is not about what connector is better. It is about everyone using the same connector. I believe if Apple allowed others to use their connector for free, they could "beat" USBs and become the only existing standard.

I think by a "charger", the EU means everything needed to charge a device, i.e. including the cables. Which means, that the charging ports should be identical on all devices sold in the EU.

This facility will remove 4,000 tons of CO2 a year.

An average person produces 5 tons of CO2 a year. So it will be removing the CO2 produced by 800 people.

I think it would be cheaper to pay people not to fly for holidays, etc.

At the end, they have a photo example of various formats.

Here is the GIF version of their final image (249 kB) https://i.imgur.com/8yt7NS0.gif

I think every programmer should know, that logical AND is many times faster than Modulus (which is at least as hard as a division), and use & instead of % right in his code for powers of two (and not expect it to be done by a compiler).

You can compile only the decompressor of the official ZSTD library to wasm, it is ony 28 kB: https://github.com/facebook/zstd/files/6602821/zstd.zip

Fun Fact: a person https://github.com/101arrowz recently created a ZSTD decompressor in Javascript (without any dependencies), which is only 7.1 kB (3.6 kB zipped) - here it is: https://unpkg.com/fzstd@0.0.2/umd/index.js (and it is quite fast, too).

What is GA? I do not have any sales.

A standard web browser is a browser, which runs a website according to web standards. If an extension e.g. replaces every image in a webpage with the image of Bill Gates, it is not a standard browser in my opinion, and users should not report it to me as a bug in my website.

An update: almost nobody pays for Photopea, and all my reports are from users who use it for free. I fixed over 3000 issues so far, some took minutes, others took weeks: https://github.com/photopea/photopea/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%...

A "popular" issue is, that people use an extension, which renames files saved by Photopea to .TXT. It is reported several times a week and every time, I tell people to disable an extension. They often argue, that it can not be caused by an extension, or even lie, that they disabled it and it did not help.

https://github.com/photopea/photopea/issues/3246 https://github.com/photopea/photopea/issues/3227 https://github.com/photopea/photopea/issues/3194 https://github.com/photopea/photopea/issues/3187 https://github.com/photopea/photopea/issues/3116 https://github.com/photopea/photopea/issues/3110 https://github.com/photopea/photopea/issues/3049 and so on.

I am an author of a photo editor https://www.Photopea.com .

Whenever someone reports a bug to me, I ask them if they use any site-modifying extensions. If they do, I ignore them completely, even if they wrote a long, detailed report.

Web authors make websites for standard web browsers. I do not consider a browser with site-modifying extensions to be a standard web browser, and it is not my job to test my website with all 1,000,000 extensions that exist on earth.

It all started six years ago, when my website contained <div id="ad" ... and somebody reported, that their adblock removes that element, but it is not the ad. What kind of a mental process should a brain perform to conclude, that it is a bug in a website, and not in their extension, which is supposed to remove ads.

All ad providers today do not allow showing ads in iframes. You can find our privacy policy by going to https://www.Photopea.com , clicking "Account" at the top, and then, clicking "Terms of Service".

BTW. I added Color to Alpha into Photopea: Filter - More - Color to Alpha. Works 100% same as in Gimp :)

Hi, I am the creator of Photopea :) Photopea exists since 2013.

1. Nobody can buy Photopea, if I refuse to sell it.

2. I am not aware of using a work of someone else, or a unique idea of someone else. I would not be able to live in a world, where I am constantly scared, that someone more powerful can put me in jail, just because they have more money for lawyers. I hope our world is not like that, and if it is, I am ready to fight to change it.

It would take me some effort to make and maintain a separate version. Users would report bugs which have been fixed months ago, because they did not update it, etc.

I think the importance of "offline apps" is overrated today. Personally, I spend less than 10 hours a year on a device without internet, and I think this number is decreasing each year, for everyone.

People use Google Maps and Wikipedia without having them on their hard drives. On the other hand, it is nice, that you can simply close a website and there is no track of that service in your computer.

Your browser is probably too old, or you use some "exotic" browser extensions

Thanks a lot! Photopea can do many things other editors can not do, e.g. opening a PDF in a PSD way (with editable text layers, vector shapes, clipping masks, bitmaps as smart objects etc.).

You can also use it to convert Gimp, Sketch, Figma, SVG and other formats to layered PSDs.

I gave a talk about it two years ago :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZmaeC_Ma5A

Hi guys, I am Ivan, the creator of Photopea :)

I made almost $1 million in the last 12 months, 90% from ads. The rest is from Premium (users paying to hide ads) and licensing a self-hosted version of Photopea.

When you start your own project, you never know, if it will ever make $250k a year. But if you get hired, you can be quite sure, that you will never make more than $250k a year.

Follow Photopea to see my progress :) http://facebook.com/photopea , http://twitter.com/photopeacom

I think the importance of users feedback and validation is often overrated.

If Steve Jobs asked people, if they want a phone with no keyboard and just a touchscreen, most of them would say no back then.

We are talking about two different things.

Should the author of some text have a right to ask money from people, for allowing them to read it? I think they should have such right and it is wrong to break it.

Should the users of Hacker News promote expensive software, websites ... when there are cheaper or free alternatives? The users of Hacker News should be educated. Unless Bloomberg has several HN accounts and upvoted this link itself.

I think it is wrong to steal the work of others (circumventing the conditions under which the author is willing to offer you their work).

If the law is bad, breaking it is not a solution. Changing the law is a solution.

Interesting. There are dozens of websites writing about this event, but users of Hacker News upvote the link, where you can not read an article without paying for it.