PayPal Honey steals affiliate links and lies about finding the best coupons
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from HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml to technology@lemmy.ml on 23 Dec 2024 21:32
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from HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml to technology@lemmy.ml on 23 Dec 2024 21:32
https://lemmy.ml/post/23941384
đź–• Fuck PayPal
And fuck Linus Tech Tips for intentionally keeping quiet about this after they found out.
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If you’re sitting at a poker table and you can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you.
Alternately, if you look at an online service and can’t tell what the product is, It’s you.
Yeah always look for where a service gets its money from before you get anything.
That’s scummy, but I don’t care if your ads for amazon on your blog or whatever don’t work. Not my problem.
Yeah I don’t understand the faux outrage here, but maybe that’s because I’m not in a parasocial relationship with these influencers.
I always wondered how Honey made any money, so this answers that question and is actually a pretty ingenious (if somewhat underhanded) mechanism.
If you partnered with them as a sponsor and they took your commission money and paid you using some of the money that you would have otherwise gotten anyway, you’d probably be angry.
Nope, I guess because my ad blockers work and I skip over in-feed ads 🤷
A lot of podcasts plug it. I’ve never bothered with it.
I wonder if Honey’s new ad blocker Pie does things like this too.
Exposing the “PIE” Influencer Disaster - (Same Developers as HONEY)
I mean, if these guys are willing to do morally reprehensible stuff like this, then it should just be expected that they would do the same kind of thing for whatever new products they develop.
Almost as scummy as the concept of a YouTuber using affiliate links.
Okay but why fuck PayPal.
They own Honey
But I imagine they have been doing this even before they got bought by them
I, too, own honey. I got it locally. Should I throw it out?
Nah, honey is good. But Honey with uppercase H is bad
Maybe start at the trustpilot reviews.
But why should I trust this particular pilot?
Because they paid 4 billion to a fraud company lol. Also PayPal in general is pretty damn scummy.
Next you’ll tell me penis enlargement pills don’t work and my Nigerian prince isn’t going to pay me back.
Yeah I deleted honey a while ago just because it was owned by PayPal and it probably sells all your data. Just one extra reason to add to the pile.
The idea of honey is good though any possibilities of an open source version?
What I don’t understand is why LMG kept quite about this. No matter how much PayPal paid them it wouldn’t be more than how much they would be making with affiliate links also why join hands with karma which is also doing same and stealing from them.
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