Microsoft nepobaby recreated Honey, complete with all its slimy privacy and linkjacking practices, just under new brand name
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- 12 days
Once the issue was flagged to Phia, a spokesperson told Bloomberg that all necessary changes had been made to fix the issue.
This wasn’t an “issue”, nor have they “fixed” anything. Phia’s code was specifically and deliberately designed to steal commissions. Now that they’ve been caught they’ll will generously take out their malicious code and stop their thievery.
Slow clap…
- Agent641@lemmy.worldEnglish12 days
Once the policeman pointed out the issue of John taking things from other people’s houses without paying for them, John made nessecary changes to fix the issue.
Of course, he wasn’t arrested for theft, nor were the previously taken items returned, because it was only a technical issue which was quickly resolved.
- 12 days
Can you imagine what would happen to an individual who engineered something like this? They’d be arrested and marched off in handcuffs.
Corporations are legal persons except when it comes to criminal activity. For that they’re pretty much untouchable.
- Geologist@lemmy.zipEnglish12 days
they’ll will generously take out their malicious code and stop their thievery.
I think you’re being too generous, they likely changed a flag to disable this temporarily, so they can hide from the current news cycle and attention, while also watching what happens with the Honey lawsuits, before turning this back on.
12 daysCouldn’t even do theft in an original way, had to steal that too
- 11 days
There’s one other important lesson capitalists can learn from Steve Jobs: eat a lot of fruit instead of getting chemotherapy.
- Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish10 days
Also to the point out, the type of pancreatic cancer he had was a rare slow growing type, and treatable and not the Aggressive regular pancreatic cancer, which tends to be adenocarcioma, Jobs cancer was a pnet cancer which had potential to be cured if EXCISED early on, which is unusual, since the normal kinds kills you fast.
- Zagorath@quokk.auEnglish11 days
Get real, would ya? You and I are both like guys who had this rich neighbor - Xerox - who left the door open all the time. And you go sneakin’ in to steal a TV set. Only when you get there, you realize that I got there first. I got the loot, Steve! And you’re yellin’? “That’s not fair. I wanted to try to steal it first.” You’re too late.
— Bill Gates in the docudrama Pirates of Silicon Valley
- 12 days
That’s what capitalists and their bootlickers do. They only give credit in blame shifting.
She gets the guillotine too.
What the fuck is with rich people? It’s like the richer they get, the more they want to lie, cheat, and steal to get more.
- danielfm123@lemmy.zipEnglish10 days
I’m new here, I’m coming from reddit and I’m impressed you can say this and not get moderated :)
- idiomaddict@lemmy.worldEnglish12 days
How many billionaires you know who got arrested for holding up a 7/11? Checkmate atheists
the rich and poor alike are not allowed to sleep under bridges, steal bread, etc. …
- 12 days
Lmao how’s that boot taste?
Wage theft is consistently the single largest form of theft in the US, coming in at around $50 BILLION every year
- zbyte64@awful.systemsEnglish12 days
How many poor people flew on the Lolita express?
Turns out the only poor people on that plane were the victims.
I think you mean rich people get caught less and/or face consequences less than poor people.
Oh look! A class traitor! How does that boot taste? Or are you just deepthroating it?
I don’t know about that, just in this example here, there would be hundreds of thefts per day from the website. A poor person could barely manage a fraction of that
If that were true then the rich would be poor and the poor would be rich…
- Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
Rich people bribe legislators to make what they do no longer illegal. They lie constantly, but have their heads so far up their asses, they believe their own lies.
- pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish12 days
There are also plenty of other good reasons to not support the company behind Brave. Unfortunately, however, I don’t think that’s going to change the mind of anyone who uses it.
Seeing as people get away with this shit all the time, this is what Multi-Account Containers on Firefox are for.
You can containerise each website or list of websites to a different tab group that can’t share cookies with each other.
- danielfm123@lemmy.zipEnglish10 days
I’m switched to Firefox because of that feature :) Google has its own room, what do you keep isolated
Social media, search engines, email, banking, shopping, news etc. I even have one for my self-hosted stuff.
The only real limitation I’ve had so far is that it doesn’t have enough colours. I think there may be improvements on the way though as Mozilla did a survey about it a while ago which I completed.
You may want to keep some things in the same group such as Reddit and Youtube. Without cookies to keep you signed in on Youtube, embedded videos on Reddit often won’t work.
- Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish10 days
like father, like daughter. steal other peoples product and name it yourself and sue to person so the PR doesnt get to you, also being ruthless.
- tremble5218@programming.devEnglish12 days
I wouldn’t expect nor accept any less. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree of greed.
- [object Object]@lemmy.caEnglish12 days
That’s wrong?
EVERYONE is doing this. Not that I support it, but I’m surprised it still works.
Email clients do it, Reddit does it, tons of apps, even different browsers. I think at one point Microsoft was doing it in Edge (or was that only discount code stuffing?). Affiliate link and cookie rewriting is everywhere.
ETA:
Phia would override the referral codes from other affiliates and instead inject its own, allowing it to take credit for and potentially receive a commission on a purchase it didn’t earn.
Just to be clear, if you post a link on Reddit, Reddit rewrites the it to add their own affiliate links. Microsoft does this. Chat apps do it. It’s not a secret.
I should add “that’s wrong” is tongue in cheek. Obviously it’s wrong. My point is the rubicon has been crossed so many times it’s fucking ridiculous.
- [object Object]@lemmy.caEnglish11 days
They shipped this in 2016, literally a decade ago.
If you post a link, they will add their own referral code. They use JavaScript and hijack your link.
https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/4ldk0r/reddit_change_affiliate_links_on_reddit/
No idea why the downvotes here.
No idea why the downvotes here.
I mean, someone up there just unironically called someone else a “class traitor”.
This is not a crowd that’s hanging straight on its hinges.
