Part 1 can be found here:
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Can you give us a TLDW?
Is there anything new compared to what first came to light about a year ago?
PayPal Honey adds various websites to Honey without separate consent and then blackmails and lies to merchants to get them to join Honey “officially” if they want to get rid of stolen coupon codes (e.g., veteran discounts, employee discounts). Honey itself advertises that 10,000/30,000 websites are included in Honey, but based on data collected by MegaLag, the figure is missing more than 100,000 websites added without consent.
30:45 - 40:00 The topic is how much information the Honey browser extension collects about users’ activities on different websites (using information shared with MegaLag by a German person as an example), mentioning that Amazon issues a security warning about the Honey browser extension and recommends its immediate removal.
It is also mentioned that PayPal is creating its own advertising network, which uses, among other things, data collected by Honey.
It is mentioned that Honey is also violating laws related to advertising targeting children.
Mention of other companies, such as Microsoft and Klarna, which have been sued for the same reasons as PayPal Honey. Microsoft has added an extension similar to Honey directly to Edge, and Opera also used it in its browser, but according to MegaLag, they recently stopped using this feature.
The video also mentions companies that offer “affiliate programs” to stores and how these companies do not follow their own rules but allow the use/existence of extensions such as Honey.
(DeepL used for translation)
Interesting watch. I do wish he had more directly responded to some of the criticisms of part 1.
Never heard of https://www.datarequests.org/ before. Cool resource.