Comment by throwaway81523
14 hours ago
Apparently this thing got approved for the chrome store, which confirms that "store" approvals are near worthless for malware filtering.
14 hours ago
Apparently this thing got approved for the chrome store, which confirms that "store" approvals are near worthless for malware filtering.
one point of view is why bother with any of this, google knows exactly what honey is doing, they could remove honey from chrome with the stroke of a pen, and that would be that.
It's not malware. Marketing companies stealing commission from each other isn't malware. Giving the user less than the best possible deal isn't malware. It doesn't even upload your cookies to see if you're a tester - it does that on the client.
If I click on an affiliate link that I want to use and the extension changes that without me knowing, that’s malware for me. The intent of the user may be to use a specific affiliate link.
That's not how malware is defined - Windows ain't malware just because they occasionally make Edge open instead of what you thought were your default browser. The malware definition is way more specific than simply software that doesn't always follow user intent.
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it is textbook definition of malware. what's the argument for sending a users coupon code to a server regardless of sharing setting?