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PayPal Honey extension has again "featured" flag in Chrome web store

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324 points dvh | 2 comments | 08 Mar 25 06:43 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jahsome ◴[08 Mar 25 08:26 UTC] No.43298548[source]▶
I absolutely love how fired up the average YouTube commenter was about Honey... for about 72 hours. People completely unaffected in any way were demanding class action lawsuits, etc with seemingly no clue why they were even upset. Then the subject completely left their minds.

This observation is of course entirely anecdotal, but manufactured outrage is so fascinating, even if it currently eroding the very foundations of society.

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parasti ◴[08 Mar 25 10:12 UTC] No.43298977[source]▶
It's not manufactured. The people affected were social media influencers who used affiliate links. So the incident affected a very small and specific segment of society that incidentally could broadcast this to a lot of people.
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1. rcxdude ◴[08 Mar 25 11:42 UTC] No.43299430[source]▶
The replacing affiliate links was older news (though still news to a lot of people). The new info in the video which blew up involved them also being scummy to the end users as well.
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