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LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey (youtu.be)

submitted 6 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] 273 points 6 days ago (11 children)

Hell yeah. Huge respect to him and the other youtuber that exposed this, it's crazy that Honey just pocketing most of the referral money has been undiscovered for so many years.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 6 days ago (27 children)

I can see how it happens though.

No one was doing any oversight on their practices. If you were running a referral affiliate link system, it must have seemed like honey was doing a really good job bringing customers to you.

I'm just kind of disappointed that nobody inside the company ever spoke up or blew any whistles and said "Hey, this is at best unethical if not entirely illegal and either way exposes us to the risk of a massive lawsuit, maybe we should just actually do our jobs instead of stealing the work of other people."

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 6 days ago (8 children)

There is a YouTube video that literaly said they were scamming from 2020.

Linus tech tips figure it out a year back and stop shilling it once they figured it out but for some reason didn't make a video about it?

[–] [email protected] 67 points 6 days ago (15 children)

They didn't make a video about it because they thought it was a problem for creators, not a problem for consumers. They may have communicated to creators separately to drop honey. They talked about it publicly once they found out honey was also lying to consumers about what they did.