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22 votes
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Don’t buy stuff from old AI people
20 votes -
FBI Denver warns of online file converter scam
27 votes -
Exposing the Honey influencer scam
67 votes -
Myanmar scam compounds that enslave workers apparently use Starlink for net access. US law enforcement says no company response to request for help.
26 votes -
Honey did nothing wrong
OK, maybe they did something wrong; not actually giving people all potentially available discount codes when you say you will is wrong. But I don't think they did anything wrong by overriding...
OK, maybe they did something wrong; not actually giving people all potentially available discount codes when you say you will is wrong. But I don't think they did anything wrong by overriding affiliate links, and I think it's dangerous to let people convince you otherwise.
Even if replacing affiniate codes has negative consequences, in the form of lost revenue and uncounted sales, for the affiliates, it is happening entirely in the end user's browser, and in that environment the user has the right to do whatever they want. One can get extensions that strip off all affiliate codes. A user might have a case that their informed consent was not obtained by Honey for one feature or another, but if a user wants to install a browser extension that replaces all the affiliate codes in links they click, they have a right to do that and no affiliate marketer can be rightly empowered to stop them.
If we admit some right to control the user's browser's behavior on the part of affiliate marketers, why would that right stop at interference by Honey? Wouldn't any extension interfering with the sanctity of the affiliate marketing referral data then be a legally actionable offense?
24 votes -
Do not buy NZXT | Predatory, evil rental computer scam investigated
62 votes -
Daisy, the AI granny wasting scammers’ time
27 votes -
ADE 651
14 votes -
AI-powered scams and what you can do about them
7 votes -
Rabbit R1 it's a scam
16 votes -
ASUS demonstrates a pattern of scammy, questionably-legal practices to deny customer RMAs
36 votes -
To make sure grandmas like his don't get conned, he scams the scammers
25 votes -
Generative AI - We aren’t ready
27 votes -
Exodus bitcoin wallet: $490K swindle
6 votes -
Deepfake scammer walks off with $25 million in first-of-its-kind AI heist
46 votes -
How a tiny pacific island became a global capital of cybercrime
13 votes -
Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do
73 votes -
AI is ruining the Internet
88 votes -
The dirty little secret that could bring down Big Tech
39 votes -
My channels were hacked, streamed crypto scams, then deleted last night
12 votes -
No, you can’t get a 16TB SSD for a hundred bucks
5 votes -
I built an artificial intelligence that not only calls scammers to waste their time, but can steal their account information to help get them shut down (and it's working)
8 votes -
LinkedIn users are being scammed of millions of dollars by fake connections
7 votes -
Mexican scam loan apps will edit your face onto X-rated photos and send them to your family
8 votes -
Beware the copyleft trolls
9 votes -
The problem with NFTs
31 votes -
The ‘Zelle Fraud’ scam: How it works, how to fight back
7 votes -
Apple, Elon Musk, Kanye West, and other accounts are tweeting a bitcoin scam in giant Twitter hack
49 votes -
Ads Inc. spent over $50M placing ads on Facebook with fake celebrity news and "subscription traps", scamming people out of millions
11 votes -
A bait-and-switch scam ran unchecked on Airbnb. Here’s how it worked.
11 votes -
I accidentally uncovered a nationwide scam on Airbnb
36 votes -
The crowdfunded Dragonfly Futurefön scammed backers for over $725,000, but was only the last step in a decade-long multi-million dollar fraud
13 votes -
Facebook connected her to a tattooed soldier in Iraq. Or so she thought.
5 votes -
Ordinary Americans are using armies of phones to generate extra income for beer, diapers, and bills through ad fraud
8 votes -
There's an underground economy selling links from The New York Times, BBC, CNN, and other big news sites
12 votes -
Prime and punishment: Dirty dealing in the $175 billion Amazon Marketplace
10 votes -
Sneaky subscriptions are plaguing the App Store
16 votes -
Voice phishing scams are getting more clever
19 votes -
Ink cartridges are a scam
18 votes -
The Elon Musk impersonators of the internet - For cryptocurrency scammers, imitation is the sincerest form of fraud
7 votes -
Cheap AliExpress graphics cards - scam?
6 votes