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If it is satire, bravo.

If sincere, congratulations.

Also set up a support link for anyone else who'd like to help keep it running: https://bribes.fyi/support
I'm a little disappointed that https://bribes.fyi/bribes doesn't redirect to that support page to be honest.

When I saw the name/tag line I thought this would be a travel advice site, but I like this so much more. Great work.

What are the differences between a bribe and a tip, given X cultural milieu?
Public servants should neither ask for nor expect either?
What happens to you in India when you are charged builty of bribery? What are the punishments, if any? (for the person receiving the bribe, not the person bribing, obviously)
Honestly, haven't looked into the legal side in detail. I'm mostly just providing the data (what happened, where), not the legal outcomes. That part's outside what I've built so far.
Good lord, that this is necessary is so depressing.
need one for southeast asian countries and eastern europe
Just curious, but did any specific anti-corruption campaigns from history in other nations inspire the design here at all?
Just wanted to let you know Twitter, GH, and RSS icons fall behind the nav bar at least on mobile.
I'm glad that bribery only exists in India and not in the United State. /s because Poe.
this is just crowd sourced data? Looks vibe coded. And immediately asking for donations for a short Claude job, pretty sus?
Why do you feel the need to submit this 4 times over 1 week?
Once you get outside the first world brides seem to be the norm -- every person I know who does international work has a story about having to bride somebody, especially if you need to get something through customs quickly, or at all. It's funny, you just make a bare effort to make it seem official and they'll get you right through.

One guy would keep cash in a hidden pocket in his suitcase and if customs gave him trouble he'd politely inform them about the pocket they didn't check and everything would get resolved.

Another guy would be bringing in parts for his company and when things got held up he'd talk to the person of the appropriate rank and offer to pay the "expedited" fee to get things through, as these were very important pieces of equipment. There was no expedited fee.

Somebody else would literally just sneak them cash as they shook the custom officer's hand, but they had a working relationship and knew each other on a first name basis.

One person got pissed off and refused to pay a bride and literally just waited until they changed shifts and his stuff was released.

This got flagged, not sure exactly why, but I'm just trying to keep things transparent and keep the site running. Wasn't trying to spam anything, just sharing the updates as they came. Requesting the mod to look into it.
I think some people didn't like the contents of the website. I had no idea corruption and bribery was this common India and I guess some people didn't like to advertise it which honestly doesn't really matter as expectation is quite low already
Thanks for unflagging the post. Replying to everyone now; there are a lot of comments, so it might take a bit to get through them all.
Bribe is a symptom not cause of low trust society.
Fair, the actual disease is the trust deficit; this is just trying to make one symptom of it visible and measurable.