Anyone following this Honey story? Pretty shady.

If you aren't following, Honey/PayPal was doing a couple of things.

Claimed that they were looking everywhere they could think of across the internet for the best deal for you, when in fact that often just gave you a coupon or deal connected to a deal they had made other companies, not the best one necessarily.

Their browser extension would cut in any time someone clicked on an affiliate link and replace it with their own. Someone clicking on an affiliate link to support a creator would actually be doing that for Honey/PayPal. This happened whether the creator was affiliated with Honey or not and even if Honey failed to find a coupon or deal for you.

Honey put language in their user agreement, those things that are pages long that no one reads, that they can do whatever the fuck they want and you can't sue. Kind of ridiculous IMO that they can brazenly lie in their promotions and that agreement would still be binding. South Park did an episode on those things where one of the kids gets turned into a human centipede and couldn't do anything about it because Apple had it in a user agreement he signed off on that they could.

There's a lawsuit going forward anyway, so it'll be interesting to see how that all works out.

Edit: Also shout out to Markteplier for realizing something was wrong there early on, basically because it didn't add up. Like where was Honey's cut coming if it worked the way they actually said it did.

Edit: Honey replied to Tom's Harware and claimed they follow industry standards including "last click attribution". The thing is, it's not the user doing the clicking, it's the Honey extension creating a temporary popup, essentially doing the clicking, and closing the tab before people notice. Sounds like a fraudster's rationalization. I'm no lawyer, though.