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

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[–] const_void@lemmy.ml 117 points 2 weeks ago

I wouldn't expect less from the Epstein class

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 105 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

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...

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 54 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] Geologist@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 72 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Couldn't even do theft in an original way, had to steal that too

[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Who do you think she learned that from?

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

There's one other important lesson capitalists can learn from Steve Jobs: eat a lot of fruit instead of getting chemotherapy.

And ivermectin. Take lots daily for extra health.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 2 weeks ago

Also to the point out, the type of pancreatic cancer he had was a rare slow growing type, and treatable and not the Aggressive regular pancreatic cancer, which tends to be adenocarcioma, Jobs cancer was a pnet cancer which had potential to be cured if EXCISED early on, which is unusual, since the normal kinds kills you fast.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Holy shit, Steve Jobs is her father?

[–] Zagorath@quokk.au 6 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 6 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 53 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] danielfm123@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm new here, I'm coming from reddit and I'm impressed you can say this and not get moderated :)

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 weeks ago

Welcome to Lemmy. The home of We've all run out of patience.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 52 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Anyone who uses Brave browser: they got caught doing this shit

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 29 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 32 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] danielfm123@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm switched to Firefox because of that feature :) Google has its own room, what do you keep isolated

[–] Mulch5516@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

besides keeping work separate, i have separate containers for amazon sites and separate ones for google for the little i use it for. it ships with a facebook one, or maybe thats a similar plugin.

[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

Social media, search engines, email, banking, shopping, news etc. I even have one for my self-hosted stuff.

The only real limitation I've had so far is that it doesn't have enough colours. I think there may be improvements on the way though as Mozilla did a survey about it a while ago which I completed.

You may want to keep some things in the same group such as Reddit and Youtube. Without cookies to keep you signed in on Youtube, embedded videos on Reddit often won't work.

[–] Hund@feddit.nu 12 points 2 weeks ago

The Apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

Apple... Tree. Not far.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 10 points 2 weeks ago

like father, like daughter. steal other peoples product and name it yourself and sue to person so the PR doesnt get to you, also being ruthless.

[–] Kevlar21@piefed.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

They’re monsters! Cookie monsters!

[–] tremble5218@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago

I wouldn't expect nor accept any less. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree of greed.

[–] Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

It just never ends with that family.