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YouTuber LegalEagle sues PayPal over 'sleeping leech' Honey extension | TechCrunch

a year ago by fne8w2ah to c/technology

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A new lawsuit alleges that the PayPal-owned browser extension Honey is cheating creators out of money. Honey, which PayPal acquired for $4 billion in
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cmgvd3lw 72 points a year ago

Saved you a click

Among other accusations, MegaLag said that if a YouTuber or other creator promotes a product through an affiliate link, if the viewer has installed Honey, the extension will surreptitiously substitute its own link when the viewer makes a purchase — even if Honey didn’t provide any discounts. That means Honey, not the creator, receives the affiliate revenue for the transaction.

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KoboldCoterie 55 points a year ago

If they'd just been a little less greedy, and only inserted their affiliate link for purchases where none was originally present, and actually provided the service they advertised rather than 'partnering' with merchants to provide worse coupons, they'd probably never have gotten caught and if they had, nobody would have cared. Could have skimmed a significant but lesser amount forever. But no, they had to go full on villain, and here we are.

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VeganCheesecake 7 points a year ago

Having a pressure point against the shops by letting them control what kind of coupons would be shown was probably a big reason they weren't just kicked out of at least some of those affiliate programmes.

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kyle 8 points a year ago

Saved me a watch too, thanks!

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jballs 6 points a year ago

Also worth noting that they don't actually find you the best coupons available. They partner with retailers to get an approved list of coupon codes that they will allow. So claims of always finding you the best price are just false.

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Ulrich 2 points a year ago

You left out the part about Honey charging sellers to hide coupons.

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