The new video showcases how Honey extorted small stores into becoming a paying affiliate with Honey in order to be able to keep certain discounts out of Honey’s database.
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glimse@lemmy.world 10 hours agoI know we’re all jaded nerds on this corner of the internet that are well aware of “if you’re not paying, etc. etc.”
Haven’t watched this video but IIRC the real scandal was that the extension would change the cookie to identify Honey as your referrer so the content creators whose referral you actually used didn’t get paid. No matter how jaded you are, you can see that as the theft it is
madjo@piefed.social 10 hours ago
glimse@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Another thing even the most cynical person can easily see is extortion!
artyom@piefed.social 8 hours ago
That was in the previous video
audaxdreik@pawb.social 10 hours ago
It’s even worse than all that. The video is worth a watch if you have the time, he gets his hands on the leaked source code via accidental exposure on the Apple store, but then also covers other extensions that exhibit this same behavior as well as Microsoft Edge that just has it built into the browser. That’s right, even Microsoft is getting in on this by having their baseline browser without any extensions hijack the affiliate codes. It’s all so brazen …
glimse@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I definitely will, I liked the last one! I just wanted to clear up what the scandal was - it wasn’t something anyone could think creators should have seen coming