Honey and PayPal Lawsuit Investigation for Stolen Affiliate Commissions
Did PayPal's Honey Browser Extension Misappropriate Your Affiliate Commissions?
If you are an online marketer, influencer, or content creator using affiliate marketing links to earn commissions, you may have been affected by PayPal’s Honey browser extension. A recent investigation revealed that Honey systematically replaces rightful affiliate marketing cookies with its own, wrongfully diverting commissions from marketers to PayPal.
- Honey overrides legitimate affiliate marketing cookies during online purchases, allowing PayPal to claim credit for sales referrals originally attributed to marketers.
- Honey uses pop-ups and simulated referral clicks to trigger cookie replacements, often without the consumer’s knowledge or consent.
- Honey exploits the “last-click attribution” model, which gives credit for a sale to the most recent referral, to redirect commissions from marketers to itself even in instances where it provides no discounts to consumers.
WHO IS AFFECTED
You may have a claim if you share affiliate links on social media, blogs, or websites and rely on commission payments for income or work directly with Honey as an advertiser on your platform. For a free consultation about potential contingency-based representation, please contact our team by filling out the form below.
ABOUT STUEVE SIEGEL HANSON
Stueve Siegel Hanson attorneys have represented plaintiffs in many of the nation’s largest data breach and privacy class actions. The firm’s Data Breach and Privacy class action practice has received local and national recognition, including being named a Cybersecurity & Privacy Practice Groups of the Year by Law360, which recognizes practice groups that “worked on the biggest deals or achieved the biggest wins in the most important cases.”
