THE VIDEO SHELF · affiliate marketing scams
Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam
MegaLag investigates PayPal's Honey browser extension, showing how it swaps affiliate attribution and was promoted by large YouTube influencers. It includes technical demonstrations of the affiliate tag replacement in browser dev tools.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN treats it as top-tier investigative journalism on YouTube and the video that triggered lawsuits against Honey.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- MegaLag
- Topic
- affiliate marketing scams
- Format
- commentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 10
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2024–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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[LINK] For context, this all started about 2 weeks ago with one of the best pieces of investigative journalism I've seen on youtube: [VIDEO] And it's spiraling from there into lawsuits etc. I'm kinda glad PayPal bought them as they can't just shut down and …
aunty_helen on Hacker News · 2025-01
In uBlock Origin GPL code being stolen by team behind Honey browser extensionGood video I watched recently on how the Honey scam works: [VIDEO] *Edit: Oh I see you mention it in the video on your project! Nice work.
smcleod on Hacker News · 2024-12
In Show HN: Open-source and transparent alternative to Honey
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.