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by lpolovets 5318 days ago
This is funny, and leveraging the humor to donate to Charity: Water is brilliant. I donated just for that.
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Didn't personally find it funny (I respect you and others may, however).

Clearly they're not going to buy Yahoo and it just reeks of shameless publicity stunt to me. Donating to Charity:Water just makes the thing viable - otherwise why would anyone want to actually put money in here.

Of course it's a shameless publicity stunt and their only goal is to give water to those in need. Good for them for being creative.
their only goal is to give water to those in need.

No. dotben's point is that they have an auxiliary goal of promoting wepay (their company), which is perhaps far more of a driving factor than their support of Charity:Water.

Ah, yes, of course. Sorry. However, still good for them. Doing something different to get exposure and doing something good. Worth learning from I think.