The founder still made it do what it does.
The founder of Honey no longer owns Honey, and hasn’t for some time. It’s owned by PayPal, a much more notoriously shady company that some people still use for some reason.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 3 days ago
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Depends when all of that functionality was added in. Honey started as a legit coupon scraping extension back in 2012, and was sold to PayPal in 2020. Somewhere in the last 12 years, someone got greedy.
Reminds me of the story of AdBlock - helpful extension gets a huge market share, people get greedy, it gets sold to a for-profit, and starts doing shady deals with the people it’s supposed to be working against.
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 days ago
The founder made it steal commissions for a company that they weren’t even affiliated with?
extremeboredom@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Do you believe that the affiliate scam only started when PayPal acquired Honey?
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 days ago
Do you have reason to believe it didn’t?
Bibbiliop@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Now I feel bad. I use paypal because in some cases of purchases it is the only means I can use. What is shady about them?
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Look up the PayPal mafia. Tldr: their founders are overthrowing the world’s oldest democracy at the moment.
takeda@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Fun fact: the founders threw out musk, before it became PayPal, he also wanted to name it X, he was hoarding that domain since then.
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 days ago
It’s the only means you can use because it’s the only one the seller provides. Not your fault.
What is shady? You name it.
I mean first and foremost they’re a public-traded company that you’ll see on every storefront on the web, which together basically guarantees unethical business practices.
They automatically enrolled users into PayPal credit without their knowledge or consent. They advertised $10 free credit for new members, then just…didn’t give it. They charge late fees and interest when their shitty servers fail to process payments. They will almost always take the buyer’s side in any dispute, regardless of provided evidence, they automatically opt users into data sharing, etc.
yahoo.com/…/paypal-pay-25-million-fines-deceptive… www.dailydot.com/debug/stop-paypal-data-sharing/