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We're lucky to have an organization like the EFF that fights this nonsense. It's a good time to support their work. https://supporters.eff.org/donate https://

We're lucky to have an organization like the EFF that fights this nonsense. It's a good time to support their work. https://supporters.eff.org/donate https://supporters.eff.org/donate

toomuchtodo 12y ago
> It's a good time to support their work. To add to this: The EFF works tirelessly to protect rights online. It's always a good time to support them.
Someone1234 12y ago
Additionally if you're in the US and use Amazon at all you can donate for "free" (via orders to Amazon) by just using: https://smile.Amazon.com https://smile.Amazon.com And selecting the EFF as your charity of choice. Note that only orders made via smile.amazon.com are counted, not orders made on normal amazon.com. How this works: On normal Amazon.com third parties can earn referer fees if you click on an ad to Amazon and purchase something. With smile.amazon.com referer fees don't exist, and the money is instead given to the chosen charities. Note: As far as I know this isn't tax deductible from your perspective since Amazon themselves are the ones doing the "donating." You're just ordering something like you normally would (which might be tax deductible in its own right, but not as a charitable contribution). This has no real downsides to users except remembering to use smile.amazon.com instead of amazon.com(!).
- joshfraser 12y ago
  There's actually a nice Chrome extension that will automatically redirect you to the smile subdomain every time you visit Amazon. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/smile-always/jgpmhnmjbhgkhpbgelalfpplebgfjmbf https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/smile-always/jgpmh...
  - oftenwrong 12y ago
    Similar extension for firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/amazonsmileredirector/?src=search https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/amazonsmilere...

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We're lucky to have an organization like the EFF that fights this nonsense. It's a good time to support their work. https://supporters.eff.org/donate https://

by joshfraser 12y ago

We're lucky to have an organization like the EFF that fights this nonsense. It's a good time to support their work. https://supporters.eff.org/donate https://supporters.eff.org/donate

toomuchtodo 12y ago
> It's a good time to support their work. To add to this: The EFF works tirelessly to protect rights online. It's always a good time to support them.
Someone1234 12y ago
Additionally if you're in the US and use Amazon at all you can donate for "free" (via orders to Amazon) by just using: https://smile.Amazon.com https://smile.Amazon.com And selecting the EFF as your charity of choice. Note that only orders made via smile.amazon.com are counted, not orders made on normal amazon.com. How this works: On normal Amazon.com third parties can earn referer fees if you click on an ad to Amazon and purchase something. With smile.amazon.com referer fees don't exist, and the money is instead given to the chosen charities. Note: As far as I know this isn't tax deductible from your perspective since Amazon themselves are the ones doing the "donating." You're just ordering something like you normally would (which might be tax deductible in its own right, but not as a charitable contribution). This has no real downsides to users except remembering to use smile.amazon.com instead of amazon.com(!).
- joshfraser 12y ago
  There's actually a nice Chrome extension that will automatically redirect you to the smile subdomain every time you visit Amazon. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/smile-always/jgpmhnmjbhgkhpbgelalfpplebgfjmbf https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/smile-always/jgpmh...
  - oftenwrong 12y ago
    Similar extension for firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/amazonsmileredirector/?src=search https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/amazonsmilere...