NotAnotherLemmyUser
@NotAnotherLemmyUser@lemmy.world
- Comment on Honey has now lost 4 million Chrome users after shady tactics were revealed 1 week ago:
I was just about to edit my post because I just got done with watching the video. I’ll just give you an overview of what he talked about. It was a 13min video.
It does sound like legal action has already been taken against Jono (MegaLag) in some way since he mentioned that he can’t talk about everything, “There are just some things that I can’t share with you right now”, but that could also just be because he’s still tracking down additional information and doesn’t want any companies to try to cover their tracks while he’s following a lead.
He started off the video by recounting his experience from when he first dropped the video, to the next day when he woke up to notifications from a lot of family, friends, and dms from influencers. He ended up working through Christmas with everything going on.
Ryan Hudson, the founder of Honey, dm’d Jono (MegaLag) on Twitter. He only showed a few screenshots of this conversation (not the whole thing) and mentioned that, by the end of it, Ryan Hudson insinuated that he would be suing Jono.
Ryan also made a Reddit post trying to disparage his investigation: web.archive.org/…/im_ryan_hudson_the_cofounder_of…
He mentioned that there are now 60 class action lawsuits (that expand beyond Honey) which includes people suing Capital One, Klarna, Microsoft, PayPal and RetailMeNot (he was only able to look into about 30 of them).
He mentioned that Google has updated their Affiliate Ads Policy in response to everything. He covers this in more detail on Twitter: xcancel.com/…/1899611189107147223
MegaLag reached out to the FTC asking them to clarify whether Affiliate Marketing disclosures is required for browser extensions. They gave him the run around for a few weeks and eventually replied, “Nothing to say on this one. Sorry.”
MegaLag finished the video talking about how he developed a new browser extension which helps detect Cookie Stuffing (whenever a webpage attempts to drop an affiliate cookie when you wouldn’t expect it). He’s using it now for more investigations. It’s not out yet, but he’s looking to eventually make it public for everyone.
- Comment on Honey has now lost 4 million Chrome users after shady tactics were revealed 1 week ago:
Looks like they had already lost 4 million users within 2 weeks of MegaLag’s video.
Are we saying that the numbers haven’t moved since then? Is this article sourcing their information from a few months ago, or maybe just looking at different metrics to come up with that number?
It’s also worth pointing out that MegaLag mentioned that there’s a Part 2 to the original video, but it hasn’t been posted yet even thought it was supposed to come out early January.
I’m assuming PayPal didn’t like what he was doing and sent some lawyers his way:
- Comment on Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic 6 months ago:
What do you mean by “allow you to kill a 3rd party”?
Like if rioters are breaking into your window and start trying to pull you out through it, then you floor it and kill someone else in the crowd who wasn’t actively breaking into your car?
This is something that’s going to vary from state to state, but ultimately it will be a case by case decision where a jury will decide if the use of deadly force was reasonable.
You will be judged based on other’s perception of the events, not based solely whether you yourself thought you were in danger or not.
So, someone trying to “drive slowly” through a group of protesters would probably be found at fault, while a car that was stuck trying to wait patiently suddenly having a Molotov cocktail thrown on it would be judged differently. Even then they will need to consider whether you could have just gotten out of your car and run.