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by echelon 445 days ago
The DOJ should fine PayPal for racketeering. This seems like it should be beyond illegal and land people in jail.

This extorts online businesses and steals from content creators. There is no good in this tool whatsoever.

It probably tracks consumers on top of all their other shitty behavior.

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What about it is (or should be) illegal? They're playing by the exact same rules as every affiliate marketer in existence.

I have a dozen or so rhetorical questions I'm not going to bother with, because I doubt there's any progress to be made.

Honey is just capitalism incarnate, baby.