[HN Gopher] Lies, damned lies, and Impact Hero (refoorest, allco...
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       Lies, damned lies, and Impact Hero (refoorest, allcolibri)
        
       Author : ookware
       Score  : 71 points
       Date   : 2024-12-18 10:12 UTC (12 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (palant.info)
 (TXT) w3m dump (palant.info)
        
       | InsideOutSanta wrote:
       | This just seems plain illegal. It's affiliate fraud. In the past,
       | people have gone to prison for things like cookie stuffing.
        
       | croisillon wrote:
       | nice write up! i like that (apparently?) allcolibri founder
       | joined the author to correct one thing but not deny anything else
        
       | wiether wrote:
       | Glad to see our French Tech hard at work!
        
       | JadeNB wrote:
       | > The technical issues and neglect for users' privacy are merely
       | a sideshow here. These are somewhat to be expected for a small
       | company with limited financing. Even a small company can do
       | better however if the priorities are aligned.
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       | I'm willing to forgive technical issues for a small company, but,
       | if a company doesn't build to respect user privacy when it's
       | small, then it's certainly not going to start doing so once it
       | gets bigger.
        
       | nickdothutton wrote:
       | Cancer on top of cancer.
        
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