It is always the data. Everyone stores everything these days, even if it is not immediately acted upon/sold. If it is not immediately used, it is still a bargaining chip for valuations/acquisitions.

Yep data is more valuable than oil.

Add to this, many YouTube personalities push Honey. Most notably Mr Beast. A significant chunk of their audience is under 18. I wonder when this will blow up in their face - lawyers will have a field day suing PayPal.

Assuming you're alluding to COPPA, isn't the age < 13 whereby it becomes an issue with storing their personal information?

Regardless, on Amazon you need to be at least 13 years old to make your own account.

The first time I encountered this was when one of our devs was having trouble with CSP violations in development. Turns out the honey chrome extension injecting scripts was the problem!

No kidding. Obviously Amazon has some impure motives here but the credulous way this article treats Honey's claims should be journalistic malpractice.

Yeah, users get their discount codes and Honey gets money from the shops who gave discount code away, then got $4B acquisition. Sounds not right, too sweet to be real.

I think the Stratechery article on the acquisition is paywalled, but I liked his explanation that while paypal positions this as a consumer play, its about the demand gen value they could create for paypal merchants. Amazon's opposition seems to align with this thesis.

So they likely have access to info PayPal doesnt. So how much does PayPal make from selling financial data then?