Yeah, I know the details but for a widely distributed program with unwanted ‘feature’, it seemed to fit the bill close enough. It’s not 1:1 but I don’t think there’s a name for what honey is, and labeling it as something like a ‘Potentially Unwanted Program’ is too wide of a category for it, since it does do what it says for the user, just also for its own self-interests as well…
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Yeah, I know the details but for a widely distributed program with unwantes ‘feature’, it seemed to fit the bill close enough. It’s not 1:1 but I don’t think there’s a name for what honey is, and labeling it as something like a ‘Potentially Unwanted Program’ is too wide of a category for it, since it does do what it says for the user, just also for its own self-interests as well…