[Rapzid]

That's wild. So they just take the affiliate commission for everything when installed?

A lot of people purchase things through affiliate links to knowingly support the affiliate.. But if they have Honey installed it just "steals" the referral..

[Spivak]

I don't work in this space but how is this not literally bright line can be proven by anyone with the extension affiliate fraud?

[meestaahjoshee]

not sure if that's correct - i think the user has to click on something in the honey popup for them to overwrite the affiliate cookie. outright stealing everything would be too brazen and would probably get noticed by competing programs like rakuten.

however they insert themselves in the checkout page and offer measly honey points in the form of cash back as a cut of the commission they'd get.

there are stand down rules in the affiliate marketing space where you're not supposed to show your popup if someone has already claimed attribution of a purchase but i've heard many extensions don't follow these well.