Super high level TLDW for those not aware of what's going on: Honey (allegedly, but there's video documentation of this happening by MegaLag) overrode affiliate tags and claimed affiliate commissions for themselves even in cases where honey added no value to a sale or to a merchant whatsoever. They also claimed to find consumers the best discounts even though the platform also had paid plans for merchants allowed paying merchants to suppress certain discount codes.

Related:

* MegaLag breaking the story of Honey swapping affiliate attribution as well as withholding functional coupon codes from customers. This video goes into technical depth, showing the actual process via browser dev tools where attribution is swapped - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc4yL3YTwWk

* MKBHD commenting on it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAx_RtMKPm8

* Linus commenting on it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16gHC1AQNJY

* Past discussion on HN that was cited by MegaLag - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21589352