Show HN: Standdown, open-source affiliate stand-down for browser extensions

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Hi HN. I m Ramin, I work at Dupe.com.If you followed the Honey scandal (or this week s Phia one), you know the core issue. When you land on a store through a creator s affiliate link, a lot of shopping extensions quietly overwrite that link with their own and take the commission the creator earned. The honest behavior is to stand down and leave the existing attribution alone.The problem is that stand-down is invisible. You can t tell from the outside whether an extension does it right, and trust us clearly isn t working.So we built standdown and open-sourced it (MIT, zero deps, TypeScript). Two things we tried to do differently:1. The decision fails toward standing down. If anything is ambiguous, malformed, or errors out, it suppresses. You can t accidentally hijack a sale. 2. It grades itself F to A+, and the grade is reproduced by CI, so it s not a self-claim. We run it on our own extension and publish our grade.The whole decision runs on-device. No server sees the user s browsing, by construction.It s genuinely early and still alpha, so I d love feedback, especially from anyone who s built in this space or hit the same problem. What did we get wrong?github.com/dupe-com/standdown

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