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Northern Blockhead said:
So it would seem that Honey, one of the OG sponsors, is nothing short of a massive scam.
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Not surprised in the slightest, many knew about it already but it's so shady and works in a very grey area nobody big enough cared to seriously go after them until now (like how NordVPN is still shilled around to this day). Most products advertised on YouTube spend a significant amount of money on marketing, going after anyone with enough reach and proposing parterships, and you can trust their core business is up to no good. You can find some videos made about Honey before (example 1, 4 years ago, mentions the exact same method at this time). Swapping affiliate codes is a pretty old trick and by the book for many, many malicious extensions. So much so it's against Google's own Web Store policy (direct link):
  • Related user action is required before the inclusion of each affiliate code, link, or cookie. Some example violations include:
    1. An extension that updates a shopping-related cookie without the user's knowledge while the user is browsing shopping sites.
    2. An extension that appends an affiliate code to the URL or replaces an existing affiliate code in the URL without the user's explicit knowledge or related user action.
    3. An extension that applies or replaces affiliate promo codes without the user's explicit knowledge or related user action.
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But it doesn't end there, even browsers in the past have done it, namely Brave. In any case, you shouldn't install any such extensions on your browser, unless you use a separate profile just for that, and even then it's a stretch: far too many of them have gone rogue over the years, auto-update being enabled by default means you may not even notice the developer sold out or changed their policy (if it wasn't like that already) to include uploading all your browsing and personal data to everyone on the net, the list is so long and the Web Store and AMO have such little protection it's not even funny. Why didn't Linux Racemix Tips say anything about it? Probably because you don't bite the hand that feeds you, it may also hurt possible future sponsors and just make the average viewer question if any of those products are legit at all.
Omega Bruh Moment said:
Honestly, why feel bad about jewtubers not getting their commissions out of a product?
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Nobody should but it's a perfectly reasonable perspective to explore for a video investigating a scummy company, it puts into question why those "people" did not do proper research into what they were advertising and makes them look like fools in general while also seemingly being on their side, "fellow shit-tuber, you've been missing out on more money because of this company, you totally weren't partially responsible but just a victim!". Really funny how somebody on HN tried to "debooonk" somebody posting about it, too.

In any case, Total JewPal Death.
 
Guys, should I be feeling this justified about being a paranoid schizophrenic and assuming Honey was just Chinese spyware and it belonged in the bin?
 
I didn't install Honey because:
1. Free money trust me bro
2. Youtubers shilling it
3. That shit is tracking me isn't it?
4. Buying items online frequently? No. Lmao.

Kiwi Yuga said:
Tempted to install Honey just so that I never accidentally give an influencer money. Only risk is that I might give paypal money instead. Still, TID.
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Just never click on an affiliate link, silly goose. They claim it makes them a small commission and doesn't cost me anything, but my self-respect ain't nothing.
 
AltisticRight said:
I'm not a fan of most grifters but PayPal as a company is infinitely worse than all of them combined.
Fuck PayPal. I've dealt with them, Alipay, Wechat Pay, Japan's PayPay, Wise and bunch of others.
PayPal was the worst in terms of customer service, the fees they gouge out of everybody and even their interface was the worst. Worse than some Japanese and Indian garbage known for stupid nonsensical GUIs.

TPPD
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Paypal Mafia is pretty real and Youtubers are just waking up to that.
 
As an offshoot of white noise and ASMR channels, "one-sided audio roleplays" involving a person talking directly to you about mundane or sensitive topics have picked up some popularity.
The comment sections are a mix of horrifying and entertaining. TMIs, parasocial relationships, or Indians in BAD need of poojah contribute to insurmountable quantities of human autism on open display.
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Stalkers, ESL manual reviewers, a lack of visual land-marks to speed-review YT reports, and risky subjects lead to these channels going down frequently enough for audiences to polute PreserveTube's lastest page with this branch of ASMR-tism.

In unrelated news, here's a schizophrenic nearing his eviction and alienation from society. (Technoxity) (Archive) (Previous details on Thread Requests)
He's an abused schitzo who's slowly nearing either eviction or incarceration.
 
Honey allegedly steals affiliate commissions from influencers - Don't care lol get fucked youtube scum
Honey's discount claims are misleading - find your own deals then retard
Honey Gold (the rewards program) is a trick - OH NO THE AFFILIATE COMISSIONS I GET FROM...buying something??
The video encourages viewers with inside information about Honey to contact the creator - aka guys I think I bit off more than I can chew, please help me defend the coming lawsuit by committing to a few of these offers so I can pay a lawyer to make sure I don't go to PMITA prison
 
Northern Blockhead said:
So it would seem that Honey, one of the OG sponsors, is nothing short of a massive scam.

EDIT: Watched the entire video, and man Mega is really good at presenting on how Honey scammed both the consumer and the influencers that promote Honey. And judging by the preview for Part 2, it seems that Honey has also been scamming retailers big time.


PreserveTube
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No waayyy, something that a bunch of spineless narcissists were paid off to advertise as "free money" to children turned out to be a scam?
Who could have figured it out? I'm just glad it's actually effecting the Youtubers who were endlessly shilling this shit.
 
Just stating the obvious - if this was just screwing the consumer, you wouldn't have heard a single peep out of any of these faggots.
 
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Danann said:
Well well well, I see that Honey is being discussed here, so I assume some of you retarded enough to endure through ads without some kind of adblocker (like uBlock) been seeing ads for this "adblocker" named Pie and its effectively Honey 2.0 with how it "pays you to see ads" to entice you to see shit for totally giving you money. Oh yeah, and obviously it wouldn't work with Youtube because Youtube is nothing more than one giant advertising platform now.
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I recommend using the polar opposite: Ad Nauseam. It's a fork of uBlock that silently autoclicks every ad you see without redirecting, in theory making ads entirely useless by devaluing clicks and other metrics to nothing. It's the AIDS of online advertisement. Google and others banned it from their stores.

I knew Honey was a scam the moment I heard the ad pitch from the penguinz0 The Official Podcast. What kind of morally defunct useful idiot would ever advertise what amounts to "free money", in extension form no less? At best, it makes coupons and referrals useless, at worst it's actually just a technically legal corporate scam. I can't feel even mildly vindicated due to how fucking obvious it is. Only a megajewish megacorp like PayPal could think of this.
 
Speaking of ad blockers, PIE, the ad blocker that gives you money for blocking ads and is from the people who created Honey, got exposed today:
PreserveTube, Ghost Archive, local:
 
The most blackpilling thing about these scams is how people keep falling for them. Are there really that many gullible retards that never heard the expression 'too good to be true'? Are we a special breed of slightly smarter retard that naturally distrust people trying to sell us shady shit?
It's disheartening seeing the number of people who'll gladly buy into obvious scams just because some youtuber they have a one-sided connection with told them to.
 
Squawking Macaw said:
It's disheartening seeing the number of people who'll gladly buy into obvious scams just because some youtuber they have a one-sided connection with told them to.
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If you're only hearing one side of an argument, you're probably going to believe that side. "Too good to be true" is an increasingly rare sentiment. People will just buy into any bullshit if it sounds good nowadays. Same reason why so many people get hacked. While hackers may have got smarter, the people being hacked have also got stupider.
 
Squawking Macaw said:
The most blackpilling thing about these scams is how people keep falling for them. Are there really that many gullible retards that never heard the expression 'too good to be true'? Are we a special breed of slightly smarter retard that naturally distrust people trying to sell us shady shit?
It's disheartening seeing the number of people who'll gladly buy into obvious scams just because some youtuber they have a one-sided connection with told them to.
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Things that would be useful to teach to kids and at schools but instead we teach about pronouns.
 
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