Honey loses over 7 million users and 7,000 stores following YouTuber’s viral expose

https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/honey-loses-over-7-million-users-and-7000-stores-following-youtubers-viral-expose-3397619

If you haven't seen it, Honey (owned by PayPal) and Phia, have been caught stealing referral attributions. These are often small content creators.

They also rarely find genuine discounts. Avoid using them.

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lemmyng@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 35d

Ah yes, another shitty product from Nazi supremacist Peter Thiel.

Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 35d

Good - it always smelled fishy

ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 13 pts · 35d (2 replies)

Wasn't this exposed like a year ago?

antianarchist@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 35d (1 reply)

December 22nd, 2024

https://youtu.be/vc4yL3YTwWk

So nothing new. There are just a lot of idiots.

FallenWalnut@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 34d

The article draws from his update video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXDemfGNGz0

Goes into the impact so far and the latest lawsuits.

DrPop@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 35d

It wasn't just stealing from content creators, they were also offering manufacturer coupons that were not meant for public availability. Their model was just scraping everything off of buy pages.

Malyca@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 35d

Wasn't this like last year? If not older, I have no sense of time.