YouTuber LegalEagle sues PayPal over 'sleeping leech' Honey extension | TechCrunch - eviltoast
A new lawsuit alleges that the PayPal-owned browser extension Honey is cheating creators out of money. Honey, which PayPal acquired for $4 billion in
  • micka190@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    That’s not what his video showed though. They don’t change the URL, they open another tab, which then overrides the cookie/session variable that is used to determine who the referrer is. It’s still scummy, but it doesn’t seem to be swapping links outright.