{"id":144007,"date":"2025-01-14T23:08:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T23:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/honey-all-the-news-about-paypals-alleged-scam-coupon-app\/"},"modified":"2025-01-14T23:08:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T23:08:20","slug":"honey-all-the-news-about-paypals-alleged-scam-coupon-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/honey-all-the-news-about-paypals-alleged-scam-coupon-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Honey: all the news about PayPal\u2019s alleged scam coupon app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph my-12 font-fkroman text-17 leading-150 text-gray-13 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">The PayPal Honey browser extension is, in theory, a handy way to find better deals on products while you\u2019re shopping online. But in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vc4yL3YTwWk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video published this weekend<\/a>, YouTuber MegaLag claims the extension is a \u201cscam\u201d and that Honey has been \u201cstealing money from influencers, including the very ones they paid to promote their product.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph my-12 font-fkroman text-17 leading-150 text-gray-13 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">Honey works by popping up an offer to find coupon codes for you while you\u2019re checking out in an online shop. But as MegaLag notes, it frequently fails to find a code, or offers a Honey-branded one, even if a simple internet search will cover something better. The <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1701640&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.joinhoney.com%2Fbetterprice%2F%23%3A~%3Atext%3DWhile%2520you%2520shop%252C%2520Honey%2520will%2520find%2520every%2520working%2520promo%2520code%2520on%2520the%2520Internet.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Honey website\u2019s pitch<\/a> is that it will \u201cfind every working promo code on the internet.\u201d But according to MegaLag\u2019s video, ignoring better deals is a feature of Honey\u2019s partnerships with its retail clients.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/24343913\/paypal-honey-megalag-coupon-scam-affiliate-fees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PayPal Honey browser extension is, in theory, a handy way to find better deals on products while you\u2019re shopping online. But in a video published this weekend, YouTuber MegaLag claims the extension is a \u201cscam\u201d and that Honey has been \u201cstealing money from influencers, including the very ones they paid to promote their product.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":144008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-144007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}