• AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    The reason I stopped using the thing a while back was because that stupid popup kept blocking buttons. It became a lot more annoying than helpful in finding deals so I’m glad I got rid of it.

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    9 hours ago

    Always Remember “If it’s free, then you’re the product.” The only thing truly free in this world are those small IKEA pencils.

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    15 hours ago

    Never installed honey because I knew it was too good to be true somehow.

    There’s no way you make that much money to pay all these influencers on a fucking free addon without a catch

    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldOP
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      I just always assumed they made it back by stealing the absolute shit out of your data (which to be fair, they almost assuredly do).

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        10 hours ago

        That and I assumed they get a cut from the shop. Well, I guess they did get THE cut…

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    I feel bad for the content creators, even if it’s kind of funny to see LTT’s sponsor scam them instead of their audience for once

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    19 hours ago

    That wasn’t at all what I was expecting. I always figured that Honey had to be somehow skimming a bit off the top with their coupon codes, but I had no idea they were straight-up overwriting affiliate cookies. This feels illegal, or at the very least it should be illegal.

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      Part of their service is to allow sellers to suppress higher discount codes from appearing in the honey service. That just flat-out contradicts what they tell consumers to convince them to download the extension.

      I was expecting Honey to offer the smaller discount codes to the consumer, then apply the higher (hidden) discount count code to the seller and pocket the difference.

      In some ways, it almost seems like what they are doing is worse than that—just playing both sides for their own gain.

      I’m interested in what comes in part 2.

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    19 hours ago

    That was interesting watch. I’m familiar with the plugin though never installed it and glad for it now. Very scummy behaviour, but that’s to be expected from PayPal

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      Honey bad. Converts affiliate links to Honey commission, even if no coupons found. Oh, and it doesn’t actually look for all coupons and will limit what is shown on partner sites. Video was a good watch.