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YouTuber LegalEagle sues PayPal over 'sleeping leech' Honey extension | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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[–] chiliedogg 32 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Youtubers who had their affiliate links hijacked aren't subject to the EULA.

[–] Bazoogle 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Exactly. The forced arbitration is for Honey users. These random people with affiliate links are not Honey users.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Unless they themselves were also Honey users, perhaps.

[–] Bazoogle 1 points 3 weeks ago

A couple things, some of the plaintiffs listed appear to be business, and not users anyway. Regardless, I cannot imagine it would be difficult to find someone who made money via affiliate links and also never used honey