Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni reportedly knew Phia was ‘cookie stuffing’ for months
Regarding the new allegations, a Phia spokesperson told Bloomberg that it rebuffed some of the publication’s claims, but said the company would “learn from this.” When reached by TechCrunch, an unnamed spokesperson for Phia said in a statement: “Any features causing misattributions were immediately removed over a month ago on July 7. We are reviewing every transaction, we are fully committed to and have already begun issuing all transaction reversals to brand partners as a result of any misattribution, and we are hiring a head of compliance to make sure something like this never happens again.” The company added that it would “learn” from this incident. Phia launched last April with the promise to be a more effective Google Flights-like site for shopping — helping users find the best prices across various retailers. A few days after Bloomberg’s investigation in July, Puck also dug around and found that Phia lost almost half its full-time employees since the beginning of the year; that several brands were unaware that they were listed on the app; and that investors got the ick from how aggressively Phia was leaning into affiliate marketing. It has also faced controversy in the past, like about how it was secretly collecting swaths of sensitive data, including tracking user behavior across the web and sending it back to their servers. When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. This doesn’t affect our editorial independence. Dominic-Madori Davis is a senior venture capital and startup reporter at TechCrunch. She is based in New York City. You can contact or verify outreach from Dominic by emailing dominic.davis@techcrunch.com or via encrypted message at +1 646 831-7565 on Signal. October 13 – 15 San Francisco Scale faster. Grow your portfolio. Gain practical expertise. No matter your goal, Disrupt can empower you.Save up to $300 today! Most Popular Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models Ivan Mehta Mark Zuckerberg’s AI manifesto is exactly why people don’t like AI Russell Brandom YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning money Aisha Malik This ‘adversarial’ pattern can prevent surveillance cameras from detecting you Zack Whittaker ChatGPT brings unlimited text chats to free users Ivan Mehta Tesla and SpaceX will invest $16.8B to start building ‘Terafab’ chip factory in Texas Sean O'Kane Ford’s new electric truck, ‘Fathom,’ starts at $28,350 Sean O'Kane
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