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[–] 150 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Losing users isn't enough. Paypal needs to pay damages.

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  • [–] 85 points 2 months ago (10 children)

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

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  • [–] 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)

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  • [–] 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.

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  • [–] 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?

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  • [–] 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.

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  • [–] 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...

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  • [–] 49 points 2 months ago

    The fallout across affiliate networks came fast

    MegaLag's video was posted at the end of 2024. The affiliate networks reacted in 2026. Over a year later. That doesn't seem so fast to me.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 months ago

    Good. It needs to lose all of them with their scummy behavior.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 months ago

    Honey lost 40% of their users and has 4.6 stars on the Chrome webstore, which tells us a lot about the trustworthyness of the star ratings in the various Google stores.

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    This just means Bill will have to shell out a king's ransom to prez and his legal sharks to get the case dropped.

    The firesale pardon price of a million dollars in 2020 I suspect has given way to a sliding scale, and in any case requires a lot moe than a million now.

    That is an interesting article though thanks for sharing I didn't know about this kind of racketeering specifically.

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    What fucking year is it? This happened last year no?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    "A YouTuber"

    It's been the whole ass internet for years now. They were being propped up by YouTube's broken ad system.

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