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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you really call it a conspiracy when they have a new privacy, user trust or otherwise shady issue every month?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They really don't, not that I've seen anyway. Just stuff like this article that's 10% them doing something perfectly reasonable and 90% people going "they just feel shady!"

If you can show me actually shady stuff they've done, I'm happy to change my mind.

Usually when I ask this, it's something like "they do ads!" to which the obvious reply is "yeah they tell you that upfront".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They quite literally inserted affiliate codes in the URL of products while you browsed.