We tested the latest Honey version (17.0.4) which was released to the Chrome Web Store earlier this month on the same website and creator as featured in the MegaLag video. In our test, tapping ...

But in late December, a YouTuber known as MegaLag accused Honey of being a "scam" by abusing online affiliate links. Typically, when someone clicks an influencer's referral link to a product and ...

Google updates its policy after YouTuber MegaLag details a scheme under which the PayPal-owned Honey swapped creators' affiliate links for its own.

If customers wanted to buy a product online via an affiliate link, the add-on displayed a supposed discount to the user, as investigations by the YouTube channel MegaLag suggested. If users then ...

Earlier this week, Google updated the Chrome extension rules for affiliates, basically telling its users that without tangible benefit, or user action, affiliate links cannot be placed. Although not ...

Social media content creators—including a golden doodle, a video essayist, and a fashion blogger—accusing PayPal Inc. and others of cutting into their affiliate marketing commissions are likely to ...

Honey was accused of taking affiliate revenue from the same influencers it paid for promotion by using its Chrome extension ...

MegaLag's video also highlighted that Honey inserted its affiliate link even if it had not discovered a relevant active coupon code. In addition, Honey would also replace an existing affiliate link, ...

In the wake of the controversy surrounding PayPal's Honey browser extension, Google Chrome has updated its policies to ban the practices that the extension was observed to be engaging in.