I think it’ll be okay, Honey was actually making money from the manipulation without user knowlage.

Adblocks don’t make money and users are (should be) aware that tracking links and stuff gets removed.

I suppose. I was thinking more of 1 Chinese company just spinning up a hundred copy/paste apps.

Sounds about right, From my understanding, they singled out TikTok instead of addressing the actual problem they claim to care about.

[Edit, another comment says its any app with 1million users. So now there’s just going to be a hundred TikTok clones all under the same umbrella just different names.]

Oh boy, I can’t wait for a completely boring corporate introduction devoid of any creativity due to the last ipad’s controversy!

The other lawyer in the case, Attorney Tom made a video going over what they are sueing for and some of the misconceptions.

https://youtu.be/ItiXffyTgQg

People have a claim due to lost profits and potentially missed business opportunities.

Let’s Youtuber A had a sponsor affiliate and a spoken ad spot. Creator makes 2k for the sponsor read and 2% every time someone buys something via link. Honey swoops in and steals the affiliate link (regardless if the user got a coupon or not). The creator no longer getting the 2% and skews the success of the ad.

The creator’s ad performance (ad to finished transaction) is down, so sponsor lowers the commission to 1% and 1.5k for the next video. Enough people use honey and the metrics are bad enough the sponsor doesn’t renew contract with the creator.

On the consumer end, which due to arbitration clauses the lawyers aren’t actively pursuing (at this time) (see linked video).

Oof, you gotta find that FBI post (might have a different 3 letter agency) said that adbock is required for safe browsing. Tell them users can’t click on malware ads if there’s no malware ads to click.

That looks pretty awful IMO.

Extension suggestion: Enhancer for YouTube

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/enhancer-for-youtube/

To keep it self working it prevents “expiramental layouts” from youtube.

Great for setting YouTube player defaults the way you want.