•  TWeaK   ( @TWeaK@lemm.ee ) 
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    171 year ago

    The red flag is that they quietly added crypto and made it opt-out by default. They have a history of shady things like this over the years, such as using ad referral links. Immediately after they get caught, they go on a marketing campaign and drown out the controversy with an influx of new users.

    They basically act like it would only take a small sack of money to get them to sell all their users down the river.

    • the red flag for me is that they have anything to do with cryptocurrencies at all. Anything else is superfluous details.

      I view anything to do with cryptocurrency as a scam. Which, I have found, is the safest bet to make.

      •  TWeaK   ( @TWeaK@lemm.ee ) 
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        41 year ago

        It’s incredibly volatile as an investment, so yes avoiding it would be safest.

        Cryptomining as a feature in software is most definitely a scam.