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   elilla&, travesti ativa antifa (elilla@transmom.love)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 18:32:32 JST elilla&, travesti ativa antifa

   heard about the new scandal being about Honey (no relation), but as a SponsorBlock user I had no idea what's a Honey or even heard of it. now that I finally watched the video:
   - it's Paypal
   - it's a Paypal browser app
   - it's heavily marketed by influencers
   - what it does is it promises you coupons or points during online purchases
   - what it actually does is to find any excuse to rewrite cookies (!) and flat out steal the affiliate links commission, right before you click "buy" on any online store
   - including the commission from the influencers advertising Honey
   - Paypal the extremely wealthy company literally wrote an "every purchase was referred by us" browser extension

   this is kinda hilarious in a dystopia way. when you have capital you can just go and grab more money

   • Fã do Vegeta :Ryyca: and Rich Felker repeated this.
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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 18:40:18 JST Rich Felker

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     @elilla Browser extension repositories are not supposed to be places for profit. Policy in them should be that if the extension publisher or their affiliates have any way whatsoever of making money off people using it, aside from voluntary donations, the extension is banned.

     Fã do Vegeta :Ryyca: repeated this.
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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 18:48:13 JST Rich Felker

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     @elilla Yeah I was thinking more of Firefox where a.m.o is theoretically for the user's benefit not a marketplace for scams. But putting pressure on Google to do same would be good too.

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     elilla&, travesti ativa antifa (elilla@transmom.love)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 18:48:14 JST elilla&, travesti ativa antifa

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias Google is more interested in banning adblockers I think

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     Asbestos (asbestos@pnw.zone)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 20:15:00 JST Asbestos

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     • samiamsam

     @elilla

     @samiamsam
     Grab more money while not providing anything of value or contributing in any way. Perfect late stage capitalism.

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     Grey Goo (greygoo@corteximplant.com)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 20:15:11 JST Grey Goo

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     @elilla Check out PIE. From a founder of honey. Now going for creators add revenue...
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTxnM3J0I0k