309
Honey Lost 7 Million Users After a YouTuber Exposed Its Alleged Affiliate Theft - Gadget Review (www.gadgetreview.com)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
23 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 85 points 2 months ago (10 children)

It should had been removed from the store. How different is that of a virus.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 10 child comments
    •
  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    It isn't dead?? This ruins my day.

    At the end of the day I guess it's about brand respectability (same reason some religions are cults and some aren't, IMHO)

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    It doesn't inject its code into other programs, so it's not a virus, just general malware.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
    •
  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Wouldn't it be more akin to a cryptominer, since it's not doing anything with intent to harm or damage data, but the goal is to gain funds without the user's knowledge?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    A crypto miner uses electricity to test cryptographic solutions in order to find a specific one that “solves” a block of transactions on an blockchain. In order to do this, it runs hashing functions on your computer (usually your GPU).

    It’s stealing your processing power and electricity; so no it’s not the same as a cryptocurrency miner, which is theft and fraud of a different type.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago*

    Yeah, I know the details but for a widely distributed program with unwanted 'feature', it seemed to fit the bill close enough. It's not 1:1 but I don't think there's a name for what honey is, and labeling it as something like a 'Potentially Unwanted Program' is too wide of a category for it, since it does do what it says for the user, just also for its own self-interests as well...

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent