Microsoft nepobaby recreated Honey, complete with all its slimy privacy and linkjacking practices, just under new brand name

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    13 hours ago

    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.

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      19 hours ago

      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.

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    21 hours ago

    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…

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      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.

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        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.

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      20 hours ago

      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.

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        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

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      23 hours ago

      That’s what capitalists and their bootlickers do. They only give credit in blame shifting.

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    23 hours ago

    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.

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    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.