A reminder, a week on after this news broke, if you have the HONEY browser extension from PAYPAL installed, you should uninstall it immediately and delete all its cookies.
The extension + app owners
- does NOT find you the best coupons
- does backroom deals with big retailers to drive conversions, with less discounts
- steal(s) from creators
- harvests your data for resale and manipulation
- is classified as malware
Full details here (nb, the youtube display may not work because Youtube is actively blocking their cards / videos from displaying on Mastodon because of the MastoDDos effect)
@coffeegeek It was pretty clear from the outset that it was a scam, I don't really see why people seem to be so surprised that it was.
@coffeegeek YouTube card displays just fine.
@coffeegeek By some weird coincidence I'd never heard of Honey until just this morning, not an hour ago, when Henning Pauly / HP42 mentioned it in his latest video (to say "Please don't", of course) - I thought I'd find out about it but now I don't have to
@coffeegeek it was a honey pot?
@coffeegeek @User47 Are people still using PayPal?
@mlanger @coffeegeek I do for payments. It’s accepted at a ton of online retailers so it’s just convenient. And so much better than dumb Shopify
@User47 @coffeegeek I prefer Apple Pay. Second preference would be just putting in my credit card number on a website that accepts it. Unfortunately, sometimes the website uses PayPal to process the payment, but I do not have an account and I do not allow it to save my information. At least I hope it's not.
I don't think I've ever bought anything with Shopify. I thought that was a website.
@coffeegeek i was (still am tbf) always rather skeptical of things that were "free", and the influencers promoting it the way they did only made me think "yeah that's a scam". suppose my intuition was right this time.
@coffeegeek "the youtube display may not work because Youtube is actively blocking their cards / videos from displaying on Mastodon because of the MastoDDos effect)" - no, it's only the "youtu.be".