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[-] kautau@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Got it, I looked through the source code earlier. It seems pretty straightforward. Auth and storage through Supabase.

Basically intends to make money the same way Honey does, by affiliate linking you to “alternative” online shops with the same thing you’re looking for.

Though like most tech things, the value is really in the collected browsing data which will probably be acquired

[-] serenissi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

how did you reverse the source? it's some bundled react app it looks. I've little experience with these. can you share brief procedure?

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Sure, the extension is a zip that can be downloaded, and you're correct, it's an injected react app.

Generally, you can just beautify / format JS in your editor to get a better look

If that doesn't work, usually https://lelinhtinh.github.io/de4js/ is helpful

This is also certainly one of the places where AI has better application than most of how it's used today

Most of the actual logic occurs in popup.bundle.js but there's a number of files

But skipping through the boilerplate react and webpack stuff you can find the Supabase specific-code

Without even beautifying one of the smaller files you immediately see

And then in the popup code you see

So it's definitely just showing you affiliate links to fund itself from what it considers "ethical" alternatives. I also saw Posthog in there which they are using for analytics, but it looks like

It's configured to not capture each pageview you go to, so it's not tracking every site you're on, it looks like only if you're browsing amazon or ebay based on the background runner code:

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