[practicalpants]

> So why did Superfish not just present itself like a browser plugin

They did this for years, actually. They paid add-on developers to bundle their shopping app with the developer's app. I remember this going on ~2010/2011 at least.

People were not happy about it to say the least.

[chinathrow]

And VCs gave them money for this shit. What a fucked up investor world this is.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/superfish

[TeMPOraL]

Here they are:

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/superfish/investors

I'd love to see people put money where their mouth is and refuse to be funded by those investors... but I'm pretty sure it's not going to happen.