Wendover Productions, LLC v. PayPal Inc

Wendover Productions along with LegalEagle are suing PayPal in a class-action lawsuit. I first discovered this from Leonard French who reads through the document providing his commentary. At the time of writing this LegalEagle has also uploaded a video addressing the lawsuit which has to do with Honey hijacking referrals from creators as discovered by MegaLag.

The YouTube commenters on all videos pointed out that this was a form of cookie stuffing, which according to Wikipedia:

... is a deceptive tactic in affiliate marketing. In affiliate marketing, individuals (affiliates) are compensated for enticing consumers to buy products through specially crafted URLs that set cookies on users' browsers to track which affiliate referred the user to the site. Affiliates engaging in cookie stuffing use invasive techniques, like pop-up ads, to falsely claim credit for sales they did not facilitate.

The FBI together with eBay went after Shawn Hogan and Brian Dunning for cookie stuffing using the eBay affiliate program where they both pled guilty to a single wire fraud charge.