• FauxPseudo @lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    “From the founder of Honey.” Which means that stealing code and affiliate links is just the surface of shady stuff they are up to.

    • Ulrich@feddit.org
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      6 months ago

      The founder of Honey no longer owns Honey, and hasn’t for some time. It’s owned by PayPal, a much more notoriously shady company that some people still use for some reason.

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          6 months ago

          Depends when all of that functionality was added in. Honey started as a legit coupon scraping extension back in 2012, and was sold to PayPal in 2020. Somewhere in the last 12 years, someone got a bit too greedy.

          Reminds me of the story of AdBlock - helpful extension gets a huge market share, people get greedy, it gets sold to a for-profit, and starts doing shady deals with the people it’s supposed to be “working against”.