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You didn't even watch the video, did you? This was not affecting only those who were a sponsor for honey, they affected EVERYONE who had an affiliate link, from the Mrbeast youtubers to people who actually check their sponsors because honey.
What honey would do is take away any affiliate commission for themselves, not only taking that money but by changing the cookie from others to theirs, so if a person with an affiliate link that did everything right, got a good sponsor with integrity and did a proper video showing the good and bad side of their product would still lose because instead of the sales showing that people came from the good creator, honey would change to their tracking, making the business not want to sponsor the good creator and the good creator wouldn't even get their commission from the sales they made because honey stole them
sounds like one of the few cases where more restrictions on browser extensions would be a good thing. Or at least letting users prevent extensions from modifying cookies by default.
No, it's a situation where honey should be sued and perhaps criminally investigated.