Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam

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• Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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    • Jourei@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Blonde white woman with a weird smile says: “The.” Blonde white woman with a weird smile, zoomed in, says: “What?”

  Oh the browser addon. Goshdarnit. (watching now)

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  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hopefully my edit helps.

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    • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      lol yeah, don’t worry, bit of confusion helps keep the brain agile. Very interesting video, thanks for sharing!

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• LouNeko@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Always remember something that’s categorically false? See, e.g., most FOSS.

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  • recentSloth43@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t know, whenever i go for a new pencil, i end up leaving with a new couch or mattress. So is it really free!?!

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  • superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What about Linux?

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    • wildcardology@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You’re the advetiser.

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  • 000@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wukipedia is free. You’re not the product in that case.

    The rule should have an addendum about being a for-profit

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    • NikkiDimes@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I pay yearly for Wikipedia though

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• PlantPowerPhysicist@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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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  • DJDarren@thelemmy.club ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We almost went six months without hearing of yet another way that LTT are shitty.

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• BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Anyone care to do a tl;dw? Thanks

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  • ManWithH0Name@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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• hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They 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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• thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And this is why we don’t install proprietary software

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• lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Incredibly sleazy. Fitting that it’s a PayPal company.

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