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CoffeeGeek

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)

youtu.be/vc4yL3YTwWk

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@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 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 🙏

@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".

See: youtube.com/watch?v=vc4yL3YTwW

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