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As if Honey isn't already under enough fire with half the youtube world releasing videos about their shady practices.
by Suppafly 2y ago
As if Honey isn't already under enough fire with half the youtube world releasing videos about their shady practices.
- nicce 2y agoSecond half advertises its existence in a positive way as they pay for influencers.
- jzb 2y agoIs really being "under fire" if it's just accurate reporting?
- BadHumans 2y agoTitle is misleading. The original team behind Honey has created a new company that is doing this and not Honey itself which is owned by Paypal.
- tantalor 2y agoDo we know when Honey started stealing affiliate links? Was it after the acquisition?
- kristofferR 2y agoBefore, this is how ALL coupon sites/extensions have worked for decades. I'm frankly baffled it weren't more common knowledge, despite being common sense, before the MegaLag video. Did people really think that sites like retailmenot.com or wethrift.com make you open tabs to the shop you're searching for coupons for before you can see the coupon code just for fun?? Affiliate code stuffing is the coupon provider business model, it's not Honey-exclusive at all. I'd be surprised if you find a coupon site/extension that haven't always done that.
- josephg 2y agoUtter scumbags. The google chrome & Firefox extension stores should ban the lot of ‘em.
- throwaway48476 2y agoHonestly the developers should be banned by name from using the Firefox extension store. So they don't come back with yet another scam.
- Suppafly 2y agoHonestly I knew that that coupon websites were adding their affiliate link to links from their websites, but it never occurred to me that the toolbars would be stripping and replacing affiliate links from actual links you were clicking yourself. I wouldn't mind if they were transparent about what they were doing or gave you the option to substitute your own code specifically. I'm sure there are a lot of situations where I've clicked an affiliate link to check something out and then that affiliate got credit for other things I've purchased hours or days later. I'd really like a toolbar that let me modify or block the affiliate code from those links.
- kristofferR 2y agoOn Firefox you could use a separate container for your coupon site visits, but do the buying in another container.
- Brian_K_White 2y agoTitle says team behind honey. (was it changed?)
- zer00eyz 2y agoAnd yet consumers aren't appalled at what the kick back on a conversion is. Online advertising is a cesspool that makes things more expensive not less. Honey isnt a problem it's a symptom.
- fn-mote 2y ago> And yet consumers aren't appalled at what the kick back on a conversion is Because they have absolutely no idea. Where would they ever run across that information?
- Ekaros 2y agoSaw the numbers on some VPN provider and was surprised just how huge the cut for essentially nothing for consumer can be... Like if that was in the original price. Then again VPNs are weird when you hear these deals and compare them to normal prices. Something is broken in the model.
- maratc 2y agoTo me, the whole affiliate marketing with behind-the-back deals and kickbacks just reeks of corruption. We have made the kickbacks illegal for public servants ... why all the rest are fine? The money that "the creators" and Honey are in disagreement over to whom it belongs, should have never left the consumers' pockets to begin with.
- relwin 2y agoLegal Eagle is suing: https://youtu.be/4H4sScCB1cY?si=bXxfG_EekkzGEW7J https://youtu.be/4H4sScCB1cY?si=bXxfG_EekkzGEW7J
- johnnyanmac 2y agoBetween this and that botched FOIA request, it feels real good to have content creators out there actually looking out and fighting against this BS that every other content creator lacks the expertise to do anything about. I don't care if they do two ads per video (a normal ad and one for their firm), they more than deserve to shout themselves out.
- akimbostrawman 2y ago>content creators out there actually looking out and fighting against this BS Maybe they should have looked out before taking advertisement deals for products they don't even try to understand. The only reason all of the "content creator" (influencer would be more fitting) care about this, is for once the product screw over them instead of there audience (just look at betterhelp).
- johnnyanmac 2y agoThat's the wonderful part: you don't need to have accepted the deal or even have heard of Homey to be affected. There are some decently sized channels in that comment section of the class action That had no relationship with homey sulking about how othrt deals they took were in danger because of seemingly low click through rates.. And it's effect isn't limited to YouTubers. Y ou don't need have been socially engineered in order to be a part of a company hack. Same deal here.
- akimbostrawman 2y ago>you don't need to have accepted the deal or even have heard of Homey to be affected no you at the very least needed to install the addon for it to swap out your browser cookies. >And it's effect isn't limited to YouTubers the reason for the lawsuit based on financial damages very much does only effect them, the people who have referral programs which aren't the audience. ofc it also effects youtuber who didn't have a deal with honey.