Blackbird's Patent Troll Suit Against Cloudflare Gets Patent Invalidated

Re:Blackbird's Patent Troll Suit Against Cloudflare Gets Pat... by programbreeding on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @11:50AM (#16368556)

I had the same issue until I discovered there were plugins for Chrome[1] and Firefox[2] that will automatically redirect you to smile.amazon.com anytime you are on amazon.com. I have seen issues with the Firefox one when you aren't actually logged in to Amazon at the time, but the Chrome one works great.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/smile-always/jgpmh...

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/amazon-smile/

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Re:Blackbird's Patent Troll Suit Against Cloudflare Gets Pat... by dpark on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @12:21PM (#16368817)

Thank you for pointing this out. I wasn't aware of that extension. I've only generated $14.12 in the multiple years I've used smile (inconsistently). It'll be interesting to see how much that changes in the next year.

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Re:Blackbird's Patent Troll Suit Against Cloudflare Gets Pat... by y03a on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @11:53AM (#16368589)

Plugins make my skin crawl, especially one from Amazon :) uBO is the only add-on I make an exception for.

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Re:Blackbird's Patent Troll Suit Against Cloudflare Gets Pat... by stordoff on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @01:41PM (#16369570)

FWIW, neither linked plugin is from Amazon.

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Re:Blackbird's Patent Troll Suit Against Cloudflare Gets Pat... by y03a on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @09:27PM (#16372926)

I guess saying "especially from Amazon" was pointless because, now that you've pointed that out, I definitely don't feel any better about them :)

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