Sort of. But basically yes, Honey pays creators to advertise their “product” then when a viewer downloads Honey and uses it Honey steals the affiliate code money by swapping their own code in. And also not necessarily giving you the best deal, so they can keep more of the payout.
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witty_username@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Tldw: honey appears to have been falsifying urls to circumvent paying content creators
Chip_Rat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They aren’t falsifying URLs. They’re swapping out the affiliate cookie for their own.