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YouTube laywer LegalEagle is suing Honey & wants to take the company down (www.dexerto.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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YouTube lawyer Legal Eagle is suing Honey on behalf of all creators in a class-action lawsuit against the PayPal-owned company.

Case file: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.441974/gov.uscourts.cand.441974.9.0_1.pdf

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Did they trust Paypal for some reason? Maybe they didn't know because the name is different.

He alleged that they not only replaced creators’ affiliate codes with their own to pocket the money from affiliate sales, but that they also partnered with companies to control which coupons were presented to users, going against their advertisement of getting people the best deal.

This also has the side effect of overwriting affiliate links doled out by sponsors other than Honey, with the app replacing those affiliate links as well if what MegaLag and LegalEagle allege is true. If Honey gets the affiliate link rather than the creator who gets paid based on how many of their viewers click that link, then the creator doesn’t get paid even if they went through the effort of driving their audience toward a product.