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Honey has now lost 4M Chrome users after shady tactics were revealed

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657 points tantalor | 2 comments | 31 Mar 25 18:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.948s | source
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elamje ◴[31 Mar 25 21:12 UTC] No.43540034[source]▶
Have a friend high up at one of the “Big 3” in this space.

The entire business model is predicated on injecting themselves as the last click for attribution even when they weren’t remotely responsible for the conversion. Cool business, but can’t keep going on forever without someone catching on.

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1. pbreit ◴[01 Apr 25 05:18 UTC] No.43543090[source]▶
Dumb acquisition by PayPal. It should stick to "above board" financial services. Stuff like this erodes trust.
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2. autoexec ◴[01 Apr 25 17:16 UTC] No.43549265[source]▶
Paypals entire history should tell you that they can't be trusted. https://web.archive.org/web/20170312164635/http://www.paypal...