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dantheclamman@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago

For-profit Pie Adblock (from the founder of Honey) called out for copying uBlock Origin open source code without credit

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For-profit Pie Adblock (from the founder of Honey) called out for copying uBlock Origin open source code without credit

www.theregister.com

dantheclamman@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago
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Pie Adblock called out for copying uBlock Origin code
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And, magically, a repo appears on GitHub with attribution
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    The founder of Honey no longer owns Honey, and hasn’t for some time. It’s owned by PayPal, a much more notoriously shady company that some people still use for some reason.

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      Now I feel bad. I use paypal because in some cases of purchases it is the only means I can use. What is shady about them?

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        Look up the PayPal mafia. Tldr: their founders are overthrowing the world’s oldest democracy at the moment.

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          Fun fact: the founders threw out musk, before it became PayPal, he actually wanted it to be called X, he was hoarding that domain since then.

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          they’re up to something in Greece?

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            https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_in_Greece

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          What’s the worlds oldest democracy?

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        It’s the only means you can use because it’s the only one the seller provides. Not your fault.

        What is shady? You name it.

        I mean first and foremost they’re a public-traded company that you’ll see on every storefront on the web, which together basically guarantees unethical business practices.

        They automatically enrolled users into PayPal credit without their knowledge or consent. They advertised $10 free credit for new members, then just…didn’t give it. They charge late fees and interest when their shitty servers fail to process payments. They will almost always take the buyer’s side in any dispute, regardless of provided evidence, they automatically opt users into data sharing, etc.

        https://www.yahoo.com/news/paypal-pay-25-million-fines-deceptive-shady-business-001516273.html https://www.dailydot.com/debug/stop-paypal-data-sharing/

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      The founder still made it do what it does.

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        The founder made it steal commissions for a company that they weren’t even affiliated with?

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          Do you believe that the affiliate scam only started when PayPal acquired Honey?

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            Do you have reason to believe it didn’t?

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