{"id":914029,"date":"2025-03-13T11:23:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T05:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=914029"},"modified":"2025-03-13T11:23:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T05:53:19","slug":"what-is-honey-scam-that-led-google-to-change-its-chrome-extension-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/03\/13\/what-is-honey-scam-that-led-google-to-change-its-chrome-extension-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"What is \u2018Honey\u2019 scam that led Google to change its Chrome extension policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has revised its affiliate ads policy concerning Chrome extensions following accusations that PayPal&#8217;s widely-used Honey browser extension was engaging in deceptive practices. The controversy arose after content creators alleged that Honey was effectively \u201cscamming\u201d them by diverting affiliate revenue, even from those they had paid to promote the extension.<\/p>\n<p>What Google\u2019s new Chrome extension policy says<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has revised its affiliate ads policy concerning Chrome extensions following accusations that PayPal&#8217;s widely-used Honey browser extension was engaging in deceptive practices. The controversy arose after content creators alleged that Honey was effectively \u201cscamming\u201d them by diverting affiliate revenue, even from those they had paid to promote the extension. What Google\u2019s new Chrome extension policy says<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}