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by freedomben 1014 days ago
It's a reflexive guilt-by-association instinct that many people have. Some people have used crypto in the past unethically, therefore everyone using crypto is unethical. I usually like to illustrate the problem with this fallacy by using it in a way that nearly everybody can quickly see: "do you have a dog? Hitler had a dog."
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How about "have you ever committed a genocide? Because hitler committed a genocide."

Or at least, messing with the user's URL [0] to inject your affiliate code is a pretty bad, single strike kinda thing for me.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-aff...