Ever since a commit was made to EasyList, a conflict has begun between UBlock Origin contributers and numerous mod developers that use the Modrinth platform. This is because this commit blocked multiple sponsorship referral banners on mod pages, specifically on the Modrinth website. Modrinth themselves has come out against this change to the EasyList block list and due to UBlock Origin using it by default, this is primarily a conflict between UBlock Origin’s main contributors and active mod developers on Modrinth.
Mod developers complaints primarily are that the implementation was commonly breaking their mod pages, leading to important support links for players to be hidden, and that the change negatively affects them monetarily as independent developers. Some mod developers have begun automatically changing their referral links to prevent them from being blocked every time a commit attempts so. Mod developers’ are concerned their livelihoods could be ruined by this EasyList change.
UBlock Origin has retorted that the sponsorship affiliate links fit the Easy List definition for an advertisement and therefore they will not make an exception. This is likely because implementing any kind of acceptable ads policy is out of the question for them, as a similar policy is what led to the original UBlock from becoming sub-par and less usable, leading to the UBlock Origin fork.
This primarily raises questions about how or why these mod developers are losing money. The presence of concern implies that their sponsors and affiliates are able to track each individual click or view for their referral links, a practice I am sure most would consider intrusive. We can only hope that this puts enough pressure on these companies and groups to remove tracking from their links.
I’m sick and fuckin tired of Minecraft creators constantly schisming the mod base, be it mod loaders, hosting sites, or whatever the hell else. Contentious-assed creator base can’t be happy with shit, it’s always too something and then WHOOPS, now you’re expected to use this new site to get all your mods, speaking of your mods, fuck your two-hundred-item modpack you’ve been curating for five years, popular creator x, y, or z won’t make mods for your loader anymore and you’re now expected to get behind this untried, untested loader with twenty mods tops bullshit
I’m honestly sick of minecrafters some days. We can’t come together for shit.
I think you’re being a bit harsh. Most loader and website splits have been pretty justified, and I’ve never heard of any small, “untried, untested” mod loaders. Also, Sinytra Connector will let you use all mods on Forge/NeoForged when it’s done. I’ve heard it already works well for plenty of mods
I think you’re being a bit harsh.
Maybe, but I’ve also been seeing this shit since Fabric was the new hotness. People putting up banners that rude as shit “don’t fucking ask for forge ports” and shit before the age of Connector mods put a bad taste in my mouth for every spinoff loader away from forge ever since. Also, Quilt, I’m talking about Quilt when I say ‘untried and untested’. (Not sure if there’s a to-forge connector for that, either.) I’ve been looking for a replacement for doctor4t’s Effective ever since they decided they had an axe to sharpen for… Reasons, and no one cult-of-personality modder youtuber is worth giving up a 200-mod pack when their loader pick doesn’t have ANY mods that’d replace what I’d be losing.
quilt primarily split because the other modloaders are made by bigots. this is why doctor4t decided to only use Quilt, because Fabric has weird transphobes on it as far as I remember and the forge team is just full of weirdos. Doctor4t says this explicitly on the Effective mod page. plus quilt is literally compatible with 99% of fabric mods so it’s kind of pointless to get up in arms about it. i’ve used primarily quilt for modding as of recent and have found exactly 1 incompatible mod, which isn’t even really incompatible, seems to just be a side effect of quilt waiting for 1.21 to start updating and patching it
also the forge/fabric split was somewhat justified too. fabric is comically less bloated and boots way faster than any forge setup. lexmanos is generally an asshole (and bigot afaik) hence NeoForge, and that isn’t really shaping up to be much of a split because pretty much everyone seems to just accept NeoForge as the new forge now.
also the reason people say not to ask for forge ports is because they’re doing this stuff in their free time and it takes fucking ages to port something to an entirely new platform