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PayPal Honey steals affiliate links and lies about finding the best coupons (youtube.com)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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🖕 Fuck PayPal

And fuck Linus Tech Tips for intentionally keeping quiet about this after they found out.

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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

I and many other people naturally assumed that honey was getting their money from consumer data collection. Which is why I didn't use the service myself. The surprise is the fact that the scam isn't just consumer data collection but actually stealing commissions from content creators as well as using consumers as a gateway to stealing money from businesses that they have contracts with.