Honey Lost 7 Million Users After a YouTuber Exposed Its Alleged Affiliate Theft - Gadget Review
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Losing users isn't enough. Paypal needs to pay damages.
Yeah it was just straight up theft with what they were doing.
Stealing from content creators, so low
It should had been removed from the store. How different is that of a virus.
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)
Not trying to start a debate or anything but I'm genuinely curious.
Which religions aren't cults?
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.
It doesn't inject its code into other programs, so it's not a virus, just general malware.
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?
It's just fraud.
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.
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...
i don't think the people who write, nor enforce our laws, know the difference
Changing the referral codes looks a lot like injecting code into the browser
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.
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.
Good. It needs to lose all of them with their scummy behavior.
You'll never guess what Bill Gates' daughter has been up to . . .
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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.
What fucking year is it? This happened last year no?
not enough
Yeah, out of what total?
"A YouTuber"
It's been the whole ass internet for years now. They were being propped up by YouTube's broken ad system.