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PayPal Honey steals affiliate links and lies about finding the best coupons (youtube.com)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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🖕 Fuck PayPal

And fuck Linus Tech Tips for intentionally keeping quiet about this after they found out.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I always assumed that they were tracking you and selling your data out the wazoo, which is why I never installed the extension, but the shit about the affiliate jacking and colluding with businesses is wild.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

I did install it at some point, and let me assure you: you didn't miss out on much.

I figured, there are already dozens if not hundreds of companies tracking my purchases, this one at least claims to give me some value in return. So I installed it in my online shopping profile.

Well, turns out that the stuff about finding coupons is utter bullshit. 6 or so online purchases on different stores in the span of a few months, and it didn't find a single coupon. Complete garbage.