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The original was posted on /r/linustechtips by /u/WhipTheLlama on 2025-01-20 19:25:11+00:00.
I wanted to put these links somewhere more visible than comment links because there appears to be a broad understanding that LTT discovered Honey was stealing affiliate links, then dropped them with only a post on their forum describing why.
Whether or not LTT should have made a video or WAN Show topic is irrelevant because the problem was well known by that time. I'll go so far as to say that LTT was late learning about it. The Honey problem was known and widely published in 2018, and suspected as early as 2014.
For reference, LTT dropped Honey as a sponsor in March 2022.
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- Megalag and others accuse LTT of being the only ones to know about Honey stealing affiliate links.
Note that the other problems with Honey described by Megalag were not known by LTT or, from what I can tell, anyone else. They might be new functionality, or were just better hidden.