paypal stealing millions of dollars

[dirtywick]

Honey's deceptive practices land PayPal in hot water, class action filed

American lawyer and YouTuber Devin Stone (LegalEagle) is suing Honey's parent company PayPal over the extension's reported parasitical practices

www.androidpolice.com

through a browser extension called honey. the article above is about a year old, a youtube user named megalag uncovered the scheme. at the time, basically the thought was honey trick the browser into thinking the click came through honey when it didn't, stealing away clicks from influencers giving out promo codes by writing their own data in and tricking it into thinking it came from honey. here's a link to the story from megalag at the time:


well, megalag spent the last year digging into honey, and found it was much worse than that. he's released two more videos on the subject, with detailed explanations about how it all worked



paypal has been stealing promo codes from thousands of small businesses and applying them to all their customers, and strong arming them into joining their network when they try to get them to stop. they tracked and stole your personal data, tried to get minors to install honey on their family and parent's computers, stole coupon codes without permission and applied them to unintended customers, applied codes selectively, hid their shady practices from compliance testers and other affiliates and had special modes they could enable at will for compliance checks

 

[Andy_Ross]

I have been following it via Penguinz0

 

[Andy_Ross]

Lawsuit dismissed

 

[dirtywick]

seems to me dismantling regulators and compliance is going to make stuff like this a lot more common