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YouTuber Legal Eagle is suing over PayPal’s Honey extension
Creators go on the offensive.
The proposed class action lawsuit was filed December 29th in California’s Northern District Court by Stone’s Eagle Team LLP and several other YouTubers’ businesses. The plaintiffs are seeking to represent anyone who was part of an affiliate program and had their link “redirected to Paypal as a result of the Honey browser extension.” Class action status has not yet been certified by a court. The MegaLag video last month describes how when shoppers interact with its pop-up offers at checkout, it replaces existing affiliate cookies with its own in the background and gets credit for the sale, whether it actually found a coupon or not.
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