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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 HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] undrivendev@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I deleted my PayPal account a couple of months ago already. Problem solved.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I don't really wanna watch a video... but how do you "steal" affiliate links or coupon codes?

If you are doing affiliate marketing for a company and they give you a coupon code for 10% off called GET10OFF and that code gets used, the affiliate marketer gets the sale no matter where they got that code from?

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 3 days ago

I assume it looks for affiliate links and replaces the original with it's own affiliate ID.

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