In a post on VPT’s blog, I present significant new research showing Honey not just violating affiliate network “stand-down” rules, but hiding those violations by behaving properly when there is reason to think a user could be a tester.  Honey goes as far as checking a user’s cookies for other domains to see whether the user has logged into affiliate network management consoles — widely used by network compliance staff, merchants, and affiliates to manage campaigns.  If a user has logged in there, he’s probably a tester — revealing Honey’s goal of breaking the rules as much as possible, without getting caught.

Details: Honey’s Dieselgate: Detecting and Tricking Testers.