alt Hacker NewsTLDR;
- The Honey browser extension inserted their own affiliate link at checkout, depriving others of affiliate revenue.
- Honey collected discount codes entered by users while shopping online, then shook down website owners to have the discount codes removed.
- Honey should have "stood down" if an affiliate link was detected, but their algorithm would decide to skip the stand down based on if the user could be the an affiliate representative testing for compliance.
Allegedly.
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phpnode • today at 12:17 AM
Wow, I am very surprised that cookie stuffing[0] is still a thing. This could have been written 20 years ago.
Re the second point, it specifically collected valuable codes that shouldn't be widely shared, e.g. employee discounts.
Re the third point, the algorithm would skip stand down for users who weren't likely to be testers (based on account history and lack of cookies for affiliate marketing admin panels).