YouTuber GamersNexus sues Honey over alleged scam [Video]

YouTuber GamersNexus has filed a lawsuit against Honey and PayPal for the alleged affiliate commission scam.

On Tuesday, GamersNexus posted a video on its YouTube channel announcing legal action it’s taking against Honey’s parent company PayPal. The Youtuber is suing for wrongful business practices by “manipulating last-click attribution to ensure that they hijack content creators’ affiliate commissions,” said the legal complaint filed by consumer protection law firm Cotchett, Pitre, and McCarthy.

The lawsuit follows a December investigation from another YouTuber MegaLag who exposed Honey, the browser extension that applies coupons at checkout, of “scamming” YouTubers out of affiliate commissions by replacing their cookie tracking with Honey’s right before users make a purchase. The scheme exploits a practice called last-click attribution which gives referral credit to the last affiliate cookie that was clicked on before a purchase.

Users with Honey, which pays popular YouTubers like GamersNexus to promote its product, are prompted to click its browser …