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Could it not be seen as a deliberate deceit to avoid adequate compensation as per any sponsorship agreement though? Such practice can't be legal surely?
Even if they tried to weasel it into the terms of a sponsorship agreement one would assume it would be considered null as it goes against the very purpose of the contract?
Feel like Legal Eagle wouldn't waste their time and resources on a class action if they didn't have strong enough grounds for a fight? (And would instead make a video explaining why it would be pointless to do so)
Technically, there is not necessarily a partnership in a situation where an affiliate link was stolen. Any user with the extension would see his affiliation given to PayPal.
Also, I can't help but think it will be very difficult to account for how much money was "redirected" by Honey. The creator would need data from YouTube that I don't think is logged for much time. So you wouldn't know who clicked and when and even after that I thing the vendor of the product would need to be involved also.
Who knows what LegalEagle intends to do, they shouldn't be too clear on their intent and keep their strategy secret. Maybe they hope for some kind of settlement because I think this is more damaging in term of PR than it will ever be in terms of fines. It's like the recent case of Apple, they choosed to pay to expedite the process but never admitted guilt?
Again I'm no lawyer let's trust Legal Eagle and see where it goes. But PayPal will be a strong case for sure.