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
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:
this is either a venture capital thing to collect and sell data, or an NSA thing to collect and use data later, probably both
The point is to figure out who is anti-US, what their browsing patterns are, etc
apparently this is the backstory
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6IexiPrPPIY
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
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?
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: