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Phia, the shopping startup founded by Bill Gates’ daughter, Phoebe, and her friend Sophia Kianni is under fire for a practice known as “cookie stuffing,” which helped the product receive commissions and credit for sales it did not actually generate, per a Bloomberg investigation.
Microsoft nepobaby recreated Honey, complete with all its slimy privacy and linkjacking practices, just under new brand name
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.