- RunawayFixer@lemmy.worldEnglish2 days
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.
2 daysIt should had been removed from the store. How different is that of a virus.
- tea@lemmy.todayEnglish2 days
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)
- BetterDev@programming.devEnglish2 hours
Not trying to start a debate or anything but I’m genuinely curious.
Which religions aren’t cults?
- frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish2 days
It doesn’t inject its code into other programs, so it’s not a virus, just general malware.
i don’t think the people who write, nor enforce our laws, know the difference
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?
- 4am@lemmy.zipEnglish2 days
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.
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…
Changing the referral codes looks a lot like injecting code into the browser
- 2 days
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.
- ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish2 days
You’ll never guess what Bill Gates’ daughter has been up to . . .
- bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish2 days
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.
- magnolia_mayhem@lemmy.worldEnglish2 days
“A YouTuber”
It’s been the whole ass internet for years now. They were being propped up by YouTube’s broken ad system.
