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MegaLag - The Honey Scam is Worse Than I Thought (www.youtube.com)
submitted 1 week ago by exu@feditown.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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TLDW: MegaLag found code and rules in the Honey extension that modifies behaviour specifically to make discovery of non-compliance with affiliate programs and affiliate poaching harder for testers. This behaviour has been in place since 2017 at least.

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[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I appreciate the TLDW because the thumbnail made me think this was about bee vomit, not a scammy browser plugin

[–] exu@feditown.com 6 points 1 week ago

Glad it helped. I thought this would need some explaining why I posted it in this community.

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago

I was going to make a joke about big bee and then remembered actual honey is a huge fraud as well, a significant portion of what's sold as honey isn't actually honey. Need a good docu on that too.