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

FauxPseudo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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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  • Bibbiliop@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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      • takeda@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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.

      yahoo.com/…/paypal-pay-25-million-fines-deceptive… www.dailydot.com/debug/stop-paypal-data-sharing/

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  • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The founder still made it do what it does.

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    • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Depends when all of that functionality was added in. Honey started as a legit coupon scraping extension back in 2012, and was sold to PayPal in 2020. Somewhere in the last 12 years, someone got greedy.

      Reminds me of the story of AdBlock - helpful extension gets a huge market share, people get greedy, it gets sold to a for-profit, and starts doing shady deals with the people it’s supposed to be working against.

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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      • extremeboredom@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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