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Honey overwrites creators' affiliate links

Shopping add-on overwrites affiliate cookies so creators lose the commissions they earned from their referrals.

Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.

16 public reports · first reported 16 April 2025 · last reported 12 August 2026

Idea report · $19 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Firefox users report that this shopping add-on swaps the referral cookie on purchase pages, so the creator who sent a shopper gets no commission.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 16 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.