2026-02-25
Two of the worst companies I've had to deal with. Stripe doesn't care if your use case doesn't fit the exact shape of their APIs but will gladly sell you more APIs for the bare minimum (tax, fraud protection). Pushes Link, which confuses customers. PayPal, well, everyone knows why they're the worst. …
Bloomberg
Sources: Stripe, which is privately held, has expressed preliminary interest in a potential PayPal acquisition or buying its assets; PYPL closed up 6.7%
Payment processing firm Stripe Inc. is considering an acquisition of all or parts of PayPal Holdings Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.
2026-02-24
Two of the worst companies I've had to deal with. Stripe doesn't care if your use case doesn't fit the exact shape of their APIs but will gladly sell you more APIs for the bare minimum (tax, fraud protection). Pushes Link, which confuses customers. PayPal, well, everyone knows why they're the worst. …
Bloomberg
Sources: Stripe, which is privately held, has expressed preliminary interest in a potential acquisition of PayPal or its assets; PYPL jumps 6.7%
Payment processing firm Stripe Inc. is considering an acquisition of all or parts of PayPal Holdings Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.
2026-01-27
StatCounter has had multiple gaffes with their data recently (the spike in fake Windows 7 users, and now miscounting iOS 26 users), and I don't recommend trusting it, at least for now. They had months to test if iOS 26 was detected properly, and didn't. The Wikimedia data seems far more trustable. …
Daring Fireball
Wikimedia data: iOS 26 adoption was ~50% in January, below iOS 18's 72% in 2025, as Apple slows auto-updates; Statcounter had 15% after missing Safari changes
2026-01-26
StatCounter has had multiple gaffes with their data recently (the spike in fake Windows 7 users, and now miscounting iOS 26 users), and I don't recommend trusting it, at least for now. They had months to test if iOS 26 was detected properly, and didn't. The Wikimedia data seems far more trustable. …
Daring Fireball
Wikimedia data puts iOS 26 adoption at ~50% in January vs. iOS 18's 72% in 2025 as Apple slows auto-updates; Statcounter showed 15% after missing Safari changes
2026-01-21
Unfortunately this was to be expected. It's by design. The market is limited to certain regions, with no ability for even power users to opt into it. Developers can't test their own app if they aren't in the region. Fees still eat into already tight margins. You can't build a business on this. …
MacRumors
Setapp Mobile, one of the first alt iOS app stores launched in 2024 after the EU's DMA, plans to shut down, blaming “still-evolving and complex business terms”
2026-01-20
Unfortunately this was to be expected. It's by design. The market is limited to certain regions, with no ability for even power users to opt into it. Developers can't test their own app if they aren't in the region. Fees still eat into already tight margins. You can't build a business on this. …
MacRumors
Setapp Mobile, one of the first alt iOS app stores launched in 2024 after the EU's DMA, plans to shut down, blaming “still-evolving and complex business terms”
Ukraine-based developer MacPaw is set to close Setapp Mobile, its alternative app store for iOS devices in the European Union, next month.
2025-10-23
Poor publicly traded corporations having their user-generated content stolen 😢
New York Times
Reddit files a lawsuit against Perplexity and three data scraping companies, accusing them of illegally stealing its data by scraping Google search results
comparing them to “bank robbers” and accusing them of sidestepping its controls to scrape its data and get rich off the AI gravy train. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... Andrew ...
2025-03-26
Exact same story for us. I run a wiki at a loss and don't want to accept donations, but AI bots who know nothing about MediaWiki and just blindly follow every link forced me to upgrade servers, buy Cloudflare Pro, and spend weeks writing firewall rules to block the bad guys and not the good guys.
Ars Technica
Developers say aggressive AI crawlers are overwhelming open-source infrastructure; LibreNews: up to 97% of some projects' traffic comes from AI companies' bots
Software developer Xe Iaso reached a breaking point earlier this year when aggressive AI crawler traffic from Amazon overwhelmed …
2024-12-24
To be honest I thought the affiliate stealing part of Honey was pretty well known. I guess not. The funny tabs that show up while it's “finding the best deal” are a dead giveaway it's stealing the affiliate sale. — A great investigation though, and MegaLag has other great scam busting videos too. …
9to5Mac
In a viral YouTube video, MegaLag claims PayPal's Honey browser extension doesn't show users the best coupons and deals, and steals creators' affiliate revenue
www.fakespot.com [embedded post] Harry McCracken / @harrymccracken.com : It was obvious that Honey was involved in poaching of some sort, but this is a brilliantly-done video. http...