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guardyercard.com. Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Thursday, February 20th. I'm Charlotte Gartenberg for the Wall Street Journal.

A number of social media creators are not happy with browser extensions that help consumers find coupons.

They claim those services are stealing their money, so now they're taking them to court.

Then, Elon Musk's SpaceX has deep space ambitions, but the company's starship vehicle

exploded on a recent test flight and rain debris across the Caribbean. WSJ's Micah Maidenberg

tells us what it'll take to get the next starship to the launch pad.

But first, social media creators are suing over browser extensions like PayPal Honey and Capital One shopping that are designed to find discounts when shoppers check out online.

In several lawsuits, they're accusing these browser extensions of taking credit for consumer

purchases that they say they're responsible for, essentially by taking the commission that they feel

they're owed. Our reporter Megan Graham has been following this, and she joins us now with more.

Megan, I have not used one of these extensions before. So how do they work?

When you are online shopping, so if you're on Sephora.com, for instance, it'll say, do you want me to look for coupons for you?

And I think you can set it where it just does it automatically.

It will search coupon codes, promo codes, whatever it may be, free shipping, and put those in for you. So you can feel like,

okay, I know that there was no secret first time buy or deal going on. It like scours the internet? It will scour the internet to find those. I don't know if you've ever used those

sites that you can search for coupon codes, but you try them over and over again. This does that

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