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

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 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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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

The whole "buy now, pay later" deal is a credit loan. They are most likely paying the merchant directly and using your loan as collateral to speculate on the market, until you pay them back for that loan. If that's true, they are making profit on the interest gained from your loan.

I'm not very educated in economics, so I'm struggling to understand this. Is there a way to easily explain this? I'm 38 so... please use big words if you like, but simple domain language. 😅