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YouTuber Legal Eagle is suing over PayPal’s Honey extension
The proposed class action lawsuit was filed December 29th in California’s Northern District Court by Stone’s Eagle Team LLP and several other YouTubers’ businesses. It accuses Honey of intentionally replacing creators’ affiliate links with its own, even if it’s not offering shoppers a benefit, depriving creators of money in the process. The complaint alleges that PayPal’s practice violates California’s Unfair…
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Cybersecurity firm’s Chrome extension hijacked to steal users’ data
At least five Chrome extensions were compromised in a coordinated attack where a threat actor injected code that steals sensitive information from users. One attack was disclosed by Cyberhaven, a data loss prevention company that alerted its customers of a breach on December 24 after a successful phishing attack on an administrator account for the Google Chrome store. Among Cyberhaven’s customers are Snowflake,…
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Why the Honey Extension Is Being Called the Biggest Influencer Scam of All Time
Honey, which is owned by PayPal, is a popular browser extension—with 19 million users on Chrome alone—but the shopping tool is being accused of some seriously shady practices, including keeping users away from the lowest online prices and blocking creator affiliate links to deprive them of revenue. The scandal surfaced through a comprehensive video posted by MegaLag, who calls it…
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Honey’s deal-hunting browser extension is accused of ripping off customers and YouTubers
The PayPal Honey browser extension is, in theory, a handy way to find better deals on products while you’re shopping online. But in a video published this weekend, YouTuber MegaLag claims the extension is a “scam” and that Honey has been “stealing money from influencers, including the very ones they paid to promote their product.” Honey works by popping up…
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OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Search Chrome extension feels like a search hijacker
OpenAI’s new “ChatGPT search” Chrome extension feels like nothing more than a typical search hijacker, changing Chrome’s settings so your address bar searches go through ChatGPT Search instead. Yesterday, OpenAI launched its new AI search product “ChatGPT Search,” which provides real-time answers to conversational searches on the platform. “ChatGPT can now search the web in a much better way than before,”…
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Don’t Miss This Tax Deadline If You Filed for an Extension
If you applied for an extension for your 2023 tax return and have not yet completed your filing, it’s crunch time: The final deadline for 2023 returns is on Tuesday, Oct. 15, and failure to file could result in a penalty. The IRS allows individuals to request a six-month extension from the standard tax return deadline of April 15—but this…
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A file extension bug in Microsoft 365 can delete Word documents – Computerworld
A bug in version 2409 of Microsoft 365 can cause Word documents to be deleted instead of saved, Microsoft has warned. The bug affects files that contain the # character or have file extensions in uppercase, such as .DOCX or .RTF. Until the company releases a permanent fix, users are being urged to check whether missing files they thought had been…
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