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LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey (youtu.be)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"The biggest scam in YouTube history"

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Aside from the element of deception towards their sponsored creators, I wonder if this will set precedent for what is a relatively common practice.

https://sirlinksalot.co/affiliate-hijacking/

Honey isn't the only one doing this. Brave Browser does it too:

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/10134

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (7 children)

Does or did? It's not clear from the link at first glance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (5 children)

What, sorry? I think you have a typo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Edited

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 days ago (2 children)

One upon a time, websites had actually useful coupons and RetailMeNot was created by the people who made BugMeNot and it was great, but more and more websites caught on and RetailMeNot was bought out to the tune of $300 million.

Then everything went to shit.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

I miss them when they were good and effective. Like Groupon.

They all got enshittified and overrun by people trying to exploit the userbase for clicks.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

The fact that BugMeNot and RetailMeNot grew so huge is interesting. They were created by two Australians, and for a while were only popular in Australia.

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