• @Squizzy
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    82 months ago

    The founder still made it do what it does.

    • JohnEdwa
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      2 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”.

    • Ulrich
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      -32 months ago

      The founder made it steal commissions for a company that they weren’t even affiliated with?

      • @extremeboredom
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        62 months ago

        Do you believe that the affiliate scam only started when PayPal acquired Honey?