TLDW: Paypal Honey for those unaware was a widely marketed browser extension that was advertised as a way to find coupon codes when checking out purchases on various websites.

In short, what Paypal Honey was doing is using the "coupon finding" process (which let's be real, if you ever used this extension you know that this shi never worked anyway) to sneakily insert their own affiliate referral into the purchase, replacing any other referrals that were there.

So if a content creator directs you to a product using their affiliate link, and you use the "coupon finder" tool during checkout, the content creator doesn't see a dime of the commission money and it all goes to Paypal Honey, even if no coupons end up being applied.

Furthermore, it even goes as far as to take the commission if you click the "got it!" button in the window that pops up to tell you that no coupons are available

This essentially allowed them to steal what is likely millions upon millions of dollars worth of commission money. Kind of insane

explain this to me in skibidi terms

paypal honey was fanum taxing affiliate link commission

Oh wow

Tech yt so ass

Am I dusty for not knowing what an affiliated link is?

I’m afraid so unc

if you click an affiliated link to an amazon product for example, the link tells amazon that you were sent there by someone who amazon then sends some commission money

so like if you were watching a video of some guy making beats, he might have an affiliate link in his video description to the midi keyboard he was using or somethin like that

If hersheys was selling chocolate from their site and affiliated with a content creator, the affiliated link would be something like hersheys.com/MrBeast.
It'd take u to whatever chocolate it applied to, and would give him a small commission for helping promote whatever chocolate it was.

And he'd just place the link at the end of his usual vids to help promote it and whatnot

Fr? Thats insane

thats super f***ed up

That app was a scam. It never found me deals lmao

So can this be taken to court or no?

also something that i didn't include in the OP was that online retailers could work with paypal honey to withhold coupon codes from its users

so if there was a coupon code that you could manually find online that offered 20% off of your purchase, the retailer could have honey ignore that code and instead offer a coupon that saves 5% on the purchase, so the selling point of "honey scouring the web to find you the best deals" was never actually their intention

that's why any coupon code that honey actually "finds" is named HONEY10 or some shi

Guessing Rakuten & Capital One shopping are scams too

no way the "free money" extension is scam???

I'm a real one and I still use Honey for coupons so kill me where I stand also I've never stepped foot in the United States Of America so I guess I

Seen this the other day. S*** crazy

Even if no coupon was used is insidious

Lmfaoooo

Oh no, not the affiliate links..

this kinda smart ngl
stealing money from your favorite influencer

Knew about this from the get go lol s*** was ass anyway

Qmee the best one

This is smart AF

Affiliate links are everywhere. They just played the game better