Merrill wrote about Google directing people to websites that tricked small-business owners into thinking they were on the Internal Revenue Service site. People on Reddit forums have also complained ...

Honey was accused of taking affiliate revenue from the same influencers it paid for promotion by using its Chrome extension to swap in its own affiliate link before you checked out. According to the ...

The Honey extension was recently accused of being a scam ... links cannot be placed. Although not specifically stated, by large the community agrees that PayPal’s Honey extension forced Google ...

Google updates its policy after YouTuber MegaLag details a scheme under which the PayPal-owned Honey swapped creators' affiliate links for its own.

The claim sparked an investigation that led Google to uncover and eliminate more than 10,000 illegitimate listings, the company said. The scams ranged from outright fake businesses to legitimate ...

"Whenever you google and you see a sponsored link...people are paying to have that ... And because we can't always spot a ...

Google revealed, and then subsequently removed, a March 2025 release timeline for its Scam Detection features on Pixel phones. The Scam Detection feature, which has undergone a three-month beta ...