They shouldn't have to foot the bill for this. This is some bad developers releasing a bad fork of a bad browser.
At a minimum, they should have either reduced the requests to something like a monthly download (not great, but far better than requesting a file every startup), or ideally, hosted and updated the file themselves, on their infrastructure. At least that would force them to look at their own hosting bills, instead of crippling a prominent and important contributor to ad-blocking software.
At a minimum, they should have either reduced the requests to something like a monthly download (not great, but far better than requesting a file every startup), or ideally, hosted and updated the file themselves, on their infrastructure. At least that would force them to look at their own hosting bills, instead of crippling a prominent and important contributor to ad-blocking software.