Wasn't Brave browser caught replacing ads with its own? And the Honey extension replacing / injecting referral codes?
Fraud in larger scale and using other people's computers.
Was it ever prosecuted with the same vigour?
It's a corporation so I'm gonna bet no.
A class-action lawsuit is "still being fought at the pleading stage" [1]. The way this often goes is prosecutors will watch the discovery in that case to decide if anyone committed a crime.
[1] https://openclassactions.com/lawsuits/paypal-honey-affiliate...
>> there was no criminal prosecution, just a lawsuit
Like, come on. (This reminds me of the folks on HN confidently concluding Elizabeth Holmes wouldn’t see the inside of a jail all the way through sentencing.)