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Perhaps as a "I'm not committing contributory copyright infringement" statement.

Altering a page for a user to remove ads, for example, is pretty much providing a [unlicensed] derivative work. Providing the tools to perform copyright infringement - with the encouragement of a demonstrated technique - could be considered to be contributing to a tortuous infringement, jurisdiction dependent [along with a pile of other dependencies] of course.




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