Lawyers Suing Honey!

[@Ultrox007]

Lawyers failing to read the fine print in their own contract will never NOT be hilarious to me.

[@TheTechnoJelly]

Well I don't think most lawyers took honey as a sponsor so it's not them not reading the fine print

[@Ultrox007]

@@TheTechnoJelly LegalEagle specifically did, which is why I find it so funny. To springboard off that, much as I don't like Markiplyer, even he called them out saying there has to be something going on under the hood that he couldn't understand, so he'd stay away until his team can look into it. I was one of the people who used and dug into honey years ago and it started tripping everything from ghostery, firebug, and noscript - so while I'm happy more people are waking up to what I was telling them about in 2021, I do find it funny that the lawyer specifically didn't read the contract.

[@TheTechnoJelly]

Yeah Markiplyer did call it

[@JD-xz1mx]

Legal Eagle left out the part where the ones doing all the work are Attorney Tom's firm

[@TheTechnoJelly]

He does say that it's not him it's other lawyers

[@Dharengo]

Legal Eagle is doing this for clout. He's a hack.

[@TheTechnoJelly]

Well no matter what he is doing it for, the signal boost for more people to see it is good

[@Dharengo]

@@TheTechnoJelly Idk man, seems like a double edged sword to me.

[@TheTechnoJelly]

It could be to be fair

[@rickamsler3088]

the problem with the case as far as I see it is that it will be very difficult if not impossible to prove damages. I do think that Honey can be forced to halt the business practice as is. but there is no way to verify the amounts that honey took from any individual, much less what they can prove. I work in web development and cookies are so transient that most sites using them (that I work on) are trying to move away from them since the data they store can be so inaccurate sometimes. Honey updating a cookie when their extension is clicked is such a simple process that I am surprised it has taken this long for people to figure it out. I only ever used Honey for codes and price comparisons, so affiliate links were never even a consideration for me.

[@TheTechnoJelly]

Yeah it could be very difficult to prove damages but I am glad something is being done, I hope at least the hidden aspect of them not saying what they are doing is delt with somehow