Honey Lost 7 Million Users After a YouTuber Exposed Its Alleged Affiliate Theft - Gadget Review
https://www.gadgetreview.com/honey-lost-7-million-users-after-a-youtuber-exposed-its-alleged-affiliate-theft
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markz@suppo.fi · 157 pts · 25d
Losing users isn't enough. Paypal needs to pay damages.
UsoSaito@feddit.uk · 61 pts · 25d
Yeah it was just straight up theft with what they were doing.
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 24d
Stealing from content creators, so low
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br · 88 pts · 25d
It should had been removed from the store. How different is that of a virus.
tea@lemmy.today · 22 pts · 25d
It isn't dead?? This ruins my day.
At the end of the day I guess it's about brand respectability (same reason some religions are cults and some aren't, IMHO)
BetterDev@programming.dev · 2 pts · 22d
Not trying to start a debate or anything but I'm genuinely curious.
Which religions aren't cults?
tea@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 22d
I'm right there with ya 😂. They all are IMHO, but society seems to have applied a sliding scale based on how popular a given religion is.
frongt@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 25d
It doesn't inject its code into other programs, so it's not a virus, just general malware.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 25d
Wouldn't it be more akin to a cryptominer, since it's not doing anything with intent to harm or damage data, but the goal is to gain funds without the user's knowledge?
village604@adultswim.fan · 14 pts · 25d
It's just fraud.
4am@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 25d
A crypto miner uses electricity to test cryptographic solutions in order to find a specific one that “solves” a block of transactions on an blockchain. In order to do this, it runs hashing functions on your computer (usually your GPU).
It’s stealing your processing power and electricity; so no it’s not the same as a cryptocurrency miner, which is theft and fraud of a different type.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 24d
Yeah, I know the details but for a widely distributed program with unwanted 'feature', it seemed to fit the bill close enough. It's not 1:1 but I don't think there's a name for what honey is, and labeling it as something like a 'Potentially Unwanted Program' is too wide of a category for it, since it does do what it says for the user, just also for its own self-interests as well...
tyranny@crazypeople.online · 2 pts · 24d
i don't think the people who write, nor enforce our laws, know the difference
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br · 0 pts · 24d
Changing the referral codes looks a lot like injecting code into the browser
WesternInfidels@feddit.online · 52 pts · 25d
MegaLag's video was posted at the end of 2024. The affiliate networks reacted in 2026. Over a year later. That doesn't seem so fast to me.
voytrekk@sopuli.xyz · 41 pts · 25d
Good. It needs to lose all of them with their scummy behavior.
RunawayFixer@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 24d
Honey lost 40% of their users and has 4.6 stars on the Chrome webstore, which tells us a lot about the trustworthyness of the star ratings in the various Google stores.
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 24d
You'll never guess what Bill Gates' daughter has been up to . . .
More information
bedwyr@piefed.ca · 6 pts · 24d
This just means Bill will have to shell out a king's ransom to prez and his legal sharks to get the case dropped.
The firesale pardon price of a million dollars in 2020 I suspect has given way to a sliding scale, and in any case requires a lot moe than a million now.
That is an interesting article though thanks for sharing I didn't know about this kind of racketeering specifically.
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 24d
What fucking year is it? This happened last year no?
rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 25d
not enough
LodeMike@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 24d
Yeah, out of what total?
magnolia_mayhem@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 24d
"A YouTuber"
It's been the whole ass internet for years now. They were being propped up by YouTube's broken ad system.