{"id":6756,"date":"2017-04-10T17:51:04","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T17:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=6756"},"modified":"2017-04-07T17:51:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T17:51:39","slug":"linked-dont-give-your-money-to-that-gofundme-to-buy-republicans-browser-histories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/04\/10\/linked-dont-give-your-money-to-that-gofundme-to-buy-republicans-browser-histories\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Don\u2019t give your money to that GoFundMe to buy Republicans\u2019 browser histories&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/03\/29\/gofundme-buy-browser-history-mcelhaney\/\">via TechCrunch<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Have you seen the viral GoFundMe campaign floating around that vows to buy and publish the web histories of every politician and exec who is helping internet providers sell your data? Yeah, don\u2019t give that dude your money.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I\u2019m all for wacky clever revenge plots, but this one just looks like a straight up scam. Whether self-proclaimed privacy activist Adam McElhaney means well or not (and he may), this campaign just doesn\u2019t make a lot of sense. And yet it\u2019s already made over $110,000!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I found that page, read through it, thought, \u201cHow is this guy going to delivery?\u201d Then I thought, \u201cI wish I had thought of this first, he made a ton of money and GoFundMe doesn\u2019t require him to deliver on anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amazing work to this guy. He\u2019s made over 200 grand now &#8211;\u00a0https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/searchinternethistory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via TechCrunch: Have you seen the viral GoFundMe campaign floating around that vows to buy and publish the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2017-04-10T17:52:27Z","apple_news_api_id":"2718405d-42d0-489b-a950-1296402fd3ae","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2017-04-10T17:52:27Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AJxhAXULQSJupUBKWQC_Trg","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":["https:\/\/news-api.apple.com\/sections\/a6dbab72-c794-3987-8514-c419907b32a3"],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1KY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7134,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/10\/24\/rants-mcmansionhell-going-full-millenial-has-lost-my-readership\/","url_meta":{"origin":6756,"position":0},"title":"Rants: McMansionHell Going Full Millenial has Lost my Readership","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"October 24, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I know nothing about architecture but I found this blog over a year ago and have enjoyed the MS Paint criticisms of modern cookie-cutter homes in HOA communities I\u2019d never live. 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