PayPal to acquire shopping and rewards platform Honey for $4B

Re:PayPal to acquire shopping and rewards platform Honey for... by sparky_z on Thursday November 21, 2019 @03:16AM (#21592294)

But is that superceding another site's affiliate link, or did you just go straight to the website yourself?

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Re:PayPal to acquire shopping and rewards platform Honey for... by viraptor on Thursday November 21, 2019 @04:52AM (#21592696)

I'm going directly to the website.

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Re:PayPal to acquire shopping and rewards platform Honey for... by dillonmckay on Thursday November 21, 2019 @07:54AM (#21593553)

How do they (Honey) know, though?

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Re:PayPal to acquire shopping and rewards platform Honey for... by IanCal on Thursday November 21, 2019 @10:27AM (#21595002)

It's a browser extension.

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Re:PayPal to acquire shopping and rewards platform Honey for... by joking on Friday November 22, 2019 @04:03AM (#21604017)

Ok, I get how they do technically, but how the shops let honey insert they affiliate id and take a cut when the user has come directly from a newsletter?

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