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

• JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Do you have reason to believe it didn’t?

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