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by mbirth 438 days ago
> I had this idea before Honey

AdBlock Plus also had this idea back in 2012/2013.

Here’s a (German) article about this:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220817235820/https://www.mobil...

Near the end he mentions the typoRules.js, rules.json, urlfixer stuff and Yieldkit. Apparently, whenever you’ve mis-typed a URL to e.g. amazon, it auto-corrected it and added their own affiliate id (which was then valid for 30 days). And the feature only needed very few changes to get applied even to correct links.