Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th December 2024
https://awful.systems/post/3120587
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Put this up about 20 minutes late, so I’m starting off by saying Honey got exposed
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Holy shit. Managed to never run into them due to sponsorblock but the ways mega corps find ways to extract money out of everyone never ceases to amaze
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I remember when the Dark Reader addon was advertising them years ago, they were doing their shit for a pretty long time
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Making money via stealing commissions from affiliate links, tbf, wasn’t the business model I was suspecting from Honey.
I always thought they were scamming but I thought it was going to be from selling your browsing data or something similar. Then again, they still might do that.
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I must have been living under a rock/a different kind of terminally online, because I had only ever heard of Honey through Dan Olson’s riposte to Doug Walker’s The Wall, which describes Doug Walker delivering “an uncomfortably over-acted ad for online data harvesting scam Honey” (35:43).
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Well-known YouTuber Markiplier also went off on Honey back in 2019, and needless to say he felt pretty vindicated:
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Wow, I’ve been saying for years that this extension is shady as fuck. Nice to see that it’s getting some attention.
I didn’t expect it to steal affiliate cookies, but that they let you control which codes it “finds” isn’t even a secret, and I thought people know this. But every time I mentioned this on Reddit I was downvoted and called a liar.
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As someone who’s never even considered interacting with any part of this whole system, this is really funny honestly. It’s like a matryoshka of shady business practices.
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When I was young I knew people who installed those ‘get money for moving your mouse’ things, and they never got a dime. So I always mentally ignore these things as scams. ‘it is just free money’ is quite the red flag.
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I swear to god there was a video I watched about this years ago that already talked about how they don’t give you the best coupons and that they hijack affiliate links. I couldn’t have made that up in my head.
The most surprising thing to me was that they’re owned by PayPal? How can you have any credibility left when you’re owned by PayPal, wtf, that should’ve been the end of them. Oh, no shit, a service owned by PAYPAL is shady and not above-board?? No way man, those paragons of user centrism, PAY-fucking-PAL.
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