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Snopes looking real silly for this 2018 fact check: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/honey-browser-extension/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/honey-browser-e
by kelseydh 2y ago
Snopes looking real silly for this 2018 fact check: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/honey-browser-extension/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/honey-browser-extension/
- zeveb 2y agoSnopes in 2018 and Snopes in 2008 were sadly two very different things. They used to be such a great resource!
- xp84 2y agoThey were always a protection racket against retailers, and I haven't seen any proof that they started stuffing their affiliate code in 100% of the time only recently. The racket is that they f*k with your campaigns by stealing codes typed by users of the extension, so even users who don't think they're sharing them end up sharing them with Honey. Imagine the fun when someone creates a valuable code for someone trusted and doesn't limit its usage sufficiently, and someone uses it on a Honey-infected machine. Now the whole Internet is getting a possibly loss-making discount! Honey then contacts the business and says "Gee, wouldn't you like us to stop doing that? Just pay us 3% on every sale any of our tens of millions of users buy and we'll let you blacklist any codes you like!"
- akimbostrawman 2y agoA fact checker being wrong? How is that possible!!!
- ziml77 2y ago2 years before PayPal bought Honey. It's possible that the extension was fine at the time. Even if it had always been hijacking the referral codes, I wouldn't consider that a scam from the perspective of the users.
- hotdogbaines 2y agolooks like they did a new piece about it: https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/12/30/honey-browser-extension-scam/ https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/12/30/honey-browser-extensi...
- kelseydh 2y agoIt's really shameful they haven't updated the 2018 page with this information.