• kenblu24@lemmy.world
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    Transcription:

    Four-quadrant meme

    Upper Left: Chrome Browser Logo; PayPal Honey logo; VeePN Logo.
    Upper Right: Laughing Men In Suits (And Then I Said meme)


    Bottom Left: Fennec F-Droid app icon; Privacy Badger logo; UBlock Origin logo; Decentraleyes logo.
    Bottom Right: “Afraid to loose money stock photo”: Stock photo of middle-aged white male on couch holding three US hundred dollar bills with a mildly frightened facial expression.

    edit: also thanks to the peeps who identified the logos so I didn’t have to reverse image search every single one of them

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    Thanks for reminding me to remove Honey. I’ve had it for a while and never used it. Went to use it a bit ago and it made my cart more expensive lmao

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      Honey hasnt found me a coupon in probably over a year. Idk how it didn’t click to me until now that its just more spyware. Theres no way the big corps are just okay with people paying less for evwrything unless they get something else out of it

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    Isn’t privacy badger kind of redundant with ublock origin? Chameleon might be a good alternative as I’m always worried my extensions will give me a unique fingerprint.

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    It should tell us something that corporations will gleefully scrape up as much of our data as possible (even if we don’t use their services) but trying to get info out of a corporation (even stuff you have a direct legal entitlement too) is like getting blood from a stone.

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    That would be cool if there was an open source federated alternative to Honey for coupon codes

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      Searches their database for a coupon code whenever it detects you’re on a store checkout page, then blasts all the coupon codes into the little box rapid fire. Sometimes it works, usually it doesn’t. PayPal then collects your browsing data through the plugin and sells it off.