Chris Coyier on Nostr: I didn't ask for this plugin. It was literally stolen by Automattic and now is on my ...
I didn't ask for this plugin. It was literally stolen by Automattic and now is on my sites just by virtue of upgrading versions. Ostensibly it was about a security issue which was patched. That same week there was a security patch in Jetpack too. The pettiness just astounds me and I'm still completely turned off by all this.
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