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  • ajayyytoPrivacyAny privacy-friendly shopping extensions?
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    1 year ago

    How do you think Honey gets the “discount codes”? The way these platforms become successful is becoming advertising arms for the shops themselves. They can then get exclusive codes in exchange for a cut, and tell the advertiser that they can target better customers due to their tracking.

    All the incentives are bad





  • It will be similar to how the SponsorBlock “chapters” feature was handled, except also having a system for some people to get free access as well (most likely after waiting some time, or going through some queue of people wanting free access)

    Chapters on SponsorBlock are now free, but on release, were behind a paywall on the extension only. It’s simply a boolean that changes client side that enabled the functionality, so adds no privacy implications that an authenticated API would. The API is still free for others to implement with, such as on alternative clients, and in theory you could build the extension with the check commented out of course.

    It’ll most likely be priced the same as chapters was (5$) with past donators automatically getting free access. But I might choose a lower price too depending on how it goes.

    So it’ll just be a client side flag on the extension itself.