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YouTuber LegalEagle sues PayPal over 'sleeping leech' Honey extension | TechCrunch

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A new lawsuit alleges that the PayPal-owned browser extension Honey is cheating creators out of money. Honey, which PayPal acquired for $4 billion in
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    Before I even clicked it I knew there would be no real journalism involved. It’s just parroting the video the LegalEagle put out, so if you’d rather give your click to the creator, just watch the Youtube video, and don’t bother with the techcrunch “article”.

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      This article credits Legal Eagle, embeds the original, is much shorter to read than an 8-minute video and doesn’t require me to wear headphones. Lemmy is a text based social media so it makes sense to favour text sources. Definitely better than linking to some overloaded Invidious instance which seems to be the norm.

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          I believe in the right to quote which is also the law in most of the world because of Berne Convention.

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          Exhausting. Like the people who used to yell at us for using straws. Your anger is misplaced at individuals.

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