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I have to wonder how PayPal are feeling about their $4 billion acquisition of Honey now, which requests permission to read/write on all websites and exists solely as a browser extension. They're on multiple browsers, but I doubt either Mozilla or Apple will be particularly interested to protect what's presumably now a massive PayPal data mining operation.
Maybe someday everyone will realize that google isn't a company that provides services to users, it's a data theft company. They don't really care about bugs or frustrations because they aren't in the business of providing things to you. You are not their customer. The vast majority of people have forgotten that they aren't an email, webapp, cloud storage, or online translation provider. They are an advertising compa…
> I'm sure you will get a real human employee if you are interested in buying ads from them. That’s a fact. Speaking from personal experience, Google Ads/Admob seem to be the only services where human support exists.
Word of this got to our guy who handled ad buying. He called our ad rep with them, and asked pointedly "why the fuck am I spending $X thousand dollars a month to buy ads from you to get new customers, and then you are blocking those new customers from getting their receipts and support replies???".
The ad rep put our guy on hold for a minute, then came back and said he had their head of IT on conference. He asked the head of IT that question. The head of IT put us all on hold for a couple minutes, then came back with a couple engineers who worked on their email system on the line, and told them to whitelist us so that nothing of ours could be blocked as spam, and promised it would be done in something like half an hour.
It was, and we never had a problem there again.
Maybe they're still angry with him about leftpad. Yes, it really is the same guy: https://kodfabrik.com/journal/i-ve-just-liberated-my-modules . And, joking aside it would be wise to bear in mind that we're reading only one side of the story here. As with leftpad, there's another side to this. With leftpad he told Kik, "fuck you" ( https://medium.com/@mproberts/a-discussion-about-the-breakin... ), and then wrought gl…
In the links you've shared, I thought the author (Azer) was on the right to behave the way he did. I don't see it as a reason to discount his current experience because of that either.
You can't just trademark 3 letters in a way so that nobody else can use them. In fact there's hundreds of trademarks that are the letters "kik" in various logos[1].
What they trademarked is a bunch of specific logos containing those letters. Doesn't prevent other people from also using those 3 letters in some other way.
In fact when he wrote "kik", my first thought was the he was talking about the German textile discount store - which is the first result for me when I google those letters.
Old and busted: Google unexpectedly cancelling their products. New hotness: Google unexpectedly cancelling other peoples' products.
It is disgusting that no one from media asks Sundar Pichai touch questions like: 1. Non human (AI) usage for termination google accounts. 2. No repeal process At least some employee from Google here in hn must do things and understand mentality of other people. It increasingly looks like - well... we employees live in bubble but if you are unlucky then you are screwed. Do not ask us? What kind of programmers wrote su…
I maintain a paid Chrome extension ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/shortkeys-custom-k... ) and I've had a very similar experience with the frustrating repeat automated shutdown emails, except that so far my extension hasn't been actually shut down. I'm just waiting for the day that it happens at this point. I'm surprised it has not happened before now, since my extension requires a lot of permissions to d…
Sorry, not trying to be obtuse, just curious from a side-income perspective.
I have to wonder how PayPal are feeling about their $4 billion acquisition of Honey now, which requests permission to read/write on all websites and exists solely as a browser extension. They're on multiple browsers, but I doubt either Mozilla or Apple will be particularly interested to protect what's presumably now a massive PayPal data mining operation.
Amazon suspiciously says browser extension Honey is a security risk, now that PayPal owns it
https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/9/21059083/amazon-honey-brow...