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"I'm curious whether people's outrage at this technology would extend to that implementation by a different company with a much more clearly established business relationship."

The tech is fine. The idea of involving people without their consent is what's wrong.

It makes sense as a way to ensure tracking of referrals, but all parties need to be in agreement on it, and users need to be told that they are going through an intermediary.



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