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
EVERYONE is doing this. Not that I support it, but I’m surprised it still works.
Email clients do it, Reddit does it, tons of apps, even different browsers. I think at one point Microsoft was doing it in Edge (or was that only discount code stuffing?). Affiliate link and cookie rewriting is everywhere.
That’s wrong?
EVERYONE is doing this. Not that I support it, but I’m surprised it still works.
Email clients do it, Reddit does it, tons of apps, even different browsers. I think at one point Microsoft was doing it in Edge (or was that only discount code stuffing?). Affiliate link and cookie rewriting is everywhere.
Do you have proof? Can you link to such posts on reddit?
They shipped this in 2016, literally a decade ago.
If you post a link, they will add their own referral code. They use JavaScript and hijack your link.
https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/4ldk0r/reddit_change_affiliate_links_on_reddit/
No idea why the downvotes here.
I mean, someone up there just unironically called someone else a “class traitor”.
This is not a crowd that’s hanging straight on its hinges.