• DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    I understand why you would think that, but this is not the case. There are 2 main types of causes of action for this, let’s go over them:

    1. Conversion, unjust enrichment: Here, Legal eagle and other creators allege Honey took money that was supposed to go to them. This does not apply to adblock, since they don’t take the money.
    2. Tortious interference: Here they claim, that by removing the tracking cookie, they unlawfully interfere with the business relationship between the affiliates and the shopping platform. This could maybe apply to ad-blockers, but it is almost certainly superseded by the user explicitly wanting to remove tracking cookies, and the user has the right to do so.