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But growth hacking right? In all seriousness, I love how techniques like this are "ok" when the company is considered a "startup", but when it suddenly becomes
by mbesto 9y ago
But growth hacking right?
In all seriousness, I love how techniques like this are "ok" when the company is considered a "startup", but when it suddenly becomes "evil megacorp", it's all of the sudden considered deception.
- tyrust 9y agoI'd be surprised if anyone would think that this is ok for a company of any size.
- StuieK 9y agoGo look at the "discounts" on Wish vs the Amazon prices. Big company now, 100% lying directly to the consumer.
- tyrust 9y agoI'm not familiar with Wish and it appears that I need an account to look at their site. More relevant to my comment, I am not familiar with public sentiment of Wish.
- anon1385 9y agoYou're on a YC website. They are open about looking for founders who do these kinds of things. Keep in mind that YC invested in a startup that was running a service that added malware to software installers and when people called them out on it Paul Graham defended it and said they were doing nothing wrong because there was a tiny "pwn my machine" checkbox in the installer, and if people didn't uncheck that then clearly they wanted a load of malware installed. I've been writing comments about this kind of thing on HN for years. This one was 4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7051099 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7051099
- astura 9y agoStubHub is owned by eBay.