The entire affiliate "ecosystem" is cancer. I'd love to see Amazon turn it off entirely.
Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers
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Re: Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers
#52Re: Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers
#53Archived link: https://web.archive.org/web/20251230214339/https://vptdigita...
Was the VPT site not working for you, so you had to resort to archive.org? Original link https://vptdigital.com/blog/honey-detecting-testers/ . Anyone having trouble -- contact Ben Edelman (easily found by web search) and I will genuinely value the opportunity to get to the bottom of what is wrong.
I think I saw a 5xx error when I tried to see the original link. I assumed it might have been due to a hug of death.
It seems to be loading fine now.
Re: Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Was the VPT site not working for you, so you had to resort to archive.org? Original link https://vptdigital.com/blog/honey-detecting-testers/ . Anyone having trouble -- contact Ben Edelman (easily found by web search) and I will genuinely value the opportunity to get to the bottom of what is wrong.
I think I saw a 5xx error when I tried to see the original link. I assumed it might have been due to a hug of death. It seems to be loading fine now.
Your diagnosis is correct. VPT has been most focused on building our testing automation, then improving reports and dashboards. We knew this spike of traffic was coming, but we didn't finish sufficient WordPress optimizations. Apologies.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think I saw a 5xx error when I tried to see the original link. I assumed it might have been due to a hug of death. It seems to be loading fine now.
Your diagnosis is correct. VPT has been most focused on building our testing automation, then improving reports and dashboards. We knew this spike of traffic was coming, but we didn't finish sufficient WordPress optimizations. Apologies.
No worries. A hug of death is a good problem to have.
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From my experience, it’s more likely that the engineers who got far enough in the company to be working on this code believed that their willingness to work on nefarious tasks that others might refuse or whistle-blow made them a trusted asset within the company. In industries like this there’s also a mindset of “Who cares, it’s all going to corporations anyway, why not send some of that money to the corporation that…
Do you know of anyone declining to work on a project For ethical in their view ( non military non killing) ? I’ve led a sheltered life and never met one, people have told me they wouldn’t apply for a role with a company for ethical reasons maybe they even believed they would get the job
I know lots of people who had the offer to work in gambling but chose not to take it for moral reasons
Re: Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers
#58No honour among thieves, I guess.
Re: Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers
#59The entire affiliate "ecosystem" is cancer. I'd love to see Amazon turn it off entirely.
As consumer I would love to see lower prices directly. Or at least have available some official store affiliate discount code which would give me same discount which would be win win for everyone.
Re: Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
For context, Ben Edelman the author of the blog post was in the video at https://youtu.be/qCGT_CKGgFE?t=1980 Their personal site is also linked in the video description https://www.benedelman.org/honey-detecting-testers/
Ben here. My real (substantive) write-up is https://vptdigital.com/blog/honey-detecting-testers/ . Happy to discuss / answer questions / etc.
Looks like the server is down, I get a connection reset error