Phia, shopping service founded by Bill Gates's daughter, accused of 'cookie stuffing,' taking affiliate credit on purchases it didn't earn
Microsoft nepobaby recreated Honey, complete with all its slimy privacy and linkjacking practices, just under new brand name
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/10/phia-accused-of-cookie-stuffing-taking-affiliate-credit-on-purchases-it-didnt-earn/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
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I wouldn't expect less from the Epstein class
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.
like father, like daughter. steal other peoples product and name it yourself and sue to person so the PR doesnt get to you, also being ruthless.
Couldn't even do theft in an original way, had to steal that too
Who do you think she learned that from?
— Bill Gates in the docudrama Pirates of Silicon Valley
Steve Jobs.
There's one other important lesson capitalists can learn from Steve Jobs: eat a lot of fruit instead of getting chemotherapy.
Also to the point out, the type of pancreatic cancer he had was a rare slow growing type, and treatable and not the Aggressive regular pancreatic cancer, which tends to be adenocarcioma, Jobs cancer was a pnet cancer which had potential to be cured if EXCISED early on, which is unusual, since the normal kinds kills you fast.
And ivermectin. Take lots daily for extra health.
her father.
Holy shit, Steve Jobs is her father?
That's what capitalists and their bootlickers do. They only give credit in blame shifting.
Anyone who uses Brave browser: they got caught doing this shit
There are also plenty of other good reasons to not support the company behind Brave. Unfortunately, however, I don't think that's going to change the mind of anyone who uses it.
Seeing as people get away with this shit all the time, this is what Multi-Account Containers on Firefox are for.
You can containerise each website or list of websites to a different tab group that can't share cookies with each other.
I'm switched to Firefox because of that feature :) Google has its own room, what do you keep isolated
Social media, search engines, email, banking, shopping, news etc. I even have one for my self-hosted stuff.
The only real limitation I've had so far is that it doesn't have enough colours. I think there may be improvements on the way though as Mozilla did a survey about it a while ago which I completed.
You may want to keep some things in the same group such as Reddit and Youtube. Without cookies to keep you signed in on Youtube, embedded videos on Reddit often won't work.
besides keeping work separate, i have separate containers for amazon sites and separate ones for google for the little i use it for. it ships with a facebook one, or maybe thats a similar plugin.
The Apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
She gets the guillotine too.
What the fuck is with rich people? It's like the richer they get, the more they want to lie, cheat, and steal to get more.
I'm new here, I'm coming from reddit and I'm impressed you can say this and not get moderated :)
Welcome to Lemmy. The home of We've all run out of patience.
Rich people lie, steal and cheat less than poor people.
Citations Needed
He pulled it fresh out of his arse.
How many billionaires you know who got arrested for holding up a 7/11? Checkmate atheists
the rich and poor alike are not allowed to sleep under bridges, steal bread, etc. ...
Lmao how's that boot taste?
Wage theft is consistently the single largest form of theft in the US, coming in at around $50 BILLION every year
How many poor people flew on the Lolita express?
Turns out the only poor people on that plane were the victims.
I think you mean rich people get caught less and/or face consequences less than poor people.
Oh look! A class traitor! How does that boot taste? Or are you just deepthroating it?
I don't know about that, just in this example here, there would be hundreds of thefts per day from the website. A poor person could barely manage a fraction of that
Liar
If that were true then the rich would be poor and the poor would be rich...
Rich people bribe legislators to make what they do no longer illegal. They lie constantly, but have their heads so far up their asses, they believe their own lies.
Apple... Tree. Not far.
They’re monsters! Cookie monsters!
I wouldn't expect nor accept any less. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree of greed.
My class consciousness when the oligarch is a hottie
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.
ETA:
Just to be clear, if you post a link on Reddit, Reddit rewrites the it to add their own affiliate links. Microsoft does this. Chat apps do it. It’s not a secret.
I should add “that’s wrong” is tongue in cheek. Obviously it’s wrong. My point is the rubicon has been crossed so many times it’s fucking ridiculous.
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.