HumbleBundle cripples charity donations

An anonymous reader writes: Some weeks ago in a shady moves HumbleBundle silently removed the ability for customers to define the breakdown of their payment to charity — a key aspect of HumbleBundle since it's inception. Since that time they refused to explain to customers why their sliders weren't appearing, and investigation by some users who reenabled the sliders client side showed they were also being ignored server side even if reenabled, such that for a $14 donation only a pathetic $0.72 was going to two charities to be split in half between them.

HumbleBundle has now finally admitted what everyone feared — that they're formally reducing significantly the amount of the purchase value that can go to charity, from a default value of 5% to a maximum of 15% — given it was previously possible to contribute as much as 100% to charity, this is a significant reduction in the amount that HumbleBundle will allow to go to charity going forward, changing it from a humble effort to do good, to a cynical for-profit cash grab off the backs of the reputation of the charities whose names they use.