YouTube Autism - Things that are worth laughing at but not worth a full thread.

I was about to post this as well.

How it works:
- When you use affiliate links, you will see massive URLs with lots of tracking shit in it.
- If you are not careful and post such links online, like on Kiwi Farms, sometimes it is possible to find your account through the link (this is possible with kickstarter). USE A URL SHORTENER. USE A URL CLEAN-UP TOOL.
- Typically the information in the link stored in cookies decides who gets the commission.

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- This thing is nothing short of a scam, they replace cookies with their own ID to get affiliate commissions.
- Honey gold / Paypal cash gives you a little bit of cashback on purchases which is typically less than a dollar. They do the same fucking thing with this extension. If you checkout using or wanting to be awarded honey gold, they pouch the affiliate token as well.
- If you checkout with PayPal via the plugin, the same happens.
- LTT knew of this for a long time, they chose to keep quiet -- not informing anyone.

Why does this matter, they are only making $single digits from the purchases.
- Many millions of such purchases are made everyday.
- Now these plugins are editing cookies to steal affiliate gibs, what else can they do?
- You think you're supporting a smaller channel you like, but instead, you're feeding the singularity of one of the most devious and horrendous companies on the planet (PayPal).

Edit: had a retardation moment and typed URL shortener which is something that exists already.
 
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AltisticRight said:
I was about to post this as well.

How it works:
- When you use affiliate links, you will see massive URLs with lots of tracking shit in it.
- If you are not careful and post such links online, like on Kiwi Farms, sometimes it is possible to find your account through the link (this is possible with kickstarter). USE A URL SHORTENER. USE A URL CLEAN-UP TOOL.
- Typically the information in the link stored in cookies decides who gets the commission.

Top level tl;dr
- This thing is nothing short of a scam, they replace cookies with their own ID to get affiliate commissions.
- Honey gold / Paypal cash gives you a little bit of cashback on purchases which is typically less than a dollar. They do the same fucking thing with this extension. If you checkout using or wanting to be awarded honey gold, they pouch the affiliate token as well.
- If you checkout with PayPal via the plugin, the same happens.
- LTT knew of this for a long time, they chose to keep quiet -- not informing anyone.

Why does this matter, they are only making $single digits from the purchases.
- Many millions of such purchases are made everyday.
- Now these plugins are editing cookies to steal affiliate gibs, what else can they do?
- You think you're supporting a smaller channel you like, but instead, you're feeding the singularity of one of the most devious and horrendous companies on the planet (PayPal).

Edit: had a retardation moment and typed URL shortener which is something that exists already.
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I am honestly baffled that, outside of LTT mentioning it on their own forums a couple of years ago (which Mega Lag pointed out is scummy that they didn't bring this issue to a wider audience), no one had a fucking clue that Honey was doing this.

The fact this is part 1 is mindboggling.
 
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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.

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.


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Total Influencer Death.
Honey = Utterly based.

AltisticRight said:
I was about to post this as well.

How it works:
- When you use affiliate links, you will see massive URLs with lots of tracking shit in it.
- If you are not careful and post such links online, like on Kiwi Farms, sometimes it is possible to find your account through the link (this is possible with kickstarter). USE A URL SHORTENER. USE A URL CLEAN-UP TOOL.
- Typically the information in the link stored in cookies decides who gets the commission.

Top level tl;dr
- This thing is nothing short of a scam, they replace cookies with their own ID to get affiliate commissions.
- Honey gold / Paypal cash gives you a little bit of cashback on purchases which is typically less than a dollar. They do the same fucking thing with this extension. If you checkout using or wanting to be awarded honey gold, they pouch the affiliate token as well.
- If you checkout with PayPal via the plugin, the same happens.
- LTT knew of this for a long time, they chose to keep quiet -- not informing anyone.

Why does this matter, they are only making $single digits from the purchases.
- Many millions of such purchases are made everyday.
- Now these plugins are editing cookies to steal affiliate gibs, what else can they do?
- You think you're supporting a smaller channel you like, but instead, you're feeding the singularity of one of the most devious and horrendous companies on the planet (PayPal).

Edit: had a retardation moment and typed URL shortener which is something that exists already.
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LTT is fucking scum for not saying a thing about the shitty scummy product they promoted when they realized what was going on.

I dunno if honey rises to the level of scam but they are definitely scummy. OTOH, I guess I have zero sympathy for people retarded enough to install browser extensions to sniff their shopping traffic.
 
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LTT is fucking scum for not saying a thing about the shitty scummy product they promoted when they realized what was going on.

I dunno if honey rises to the level of scam but they are definitely scummy. OTOH, I guess I have zero sympathy for people retarded enough to install browser extensions to sniff their shopping traffic
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That's the thing: if the teaser for Part 2 at the end is to be believed, it seems Honey has also been skullfucking retailers.
 
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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.

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.


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I'm baffled that in the current year there are still people falling for the oldest trick in the book and are genuinely convinced that someone -- especially companies -- are willing to just give you free stuff without wanting/taking anything in return, moreso when there's an ad involved.

Nothing is ever free, anywhere. Especially on the Internet.
 
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Civillian 18 said:
Was Honey the one that also let you run what was basically a residential exit node they would then rent out to people? It was (is?) called Honeygain, is that a different retardation?
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honey is a browser extension related to paypal
honeygain is a voluntary botnet so people can scrape websites or post slide threads on 4chan
 
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AltisticRight said:
Why does this matter, they are only making $single digits from the purchases.
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To be fair, honey being shady should have been seen a long time ago, nobody buys a company for four billion dollars without it either capturing a huge customer base that can be converted to something else, or it making a shitton of money.
 
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Nothings free, something is always being sold. It's pretty hilarious that it was a genuine fucking honey pot for retarded soulless "influencers" to fuck them selves over and sold out literally every single other person who makes money off affiliate sales. Its honestly impress how poetically evil it all is. I honestly don't give a single bit of sympathy to fucks who blindly shill out the worst shit possible for some shiny shekels, I only care about costumers who got fucked out of discounts and the fact PayPal was able to get there disgusting evil fingers on more money.
 
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Just how much money do these lazy youtuber fucks need?
Most, if not all of the top channels that promote these scams already get millions upon millions of views every year and somehow that isn't enough for them.
I wish every faggot that willingly deceived their audience into garbage like this to burn in hell.
 
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Super Malario said:
Just how much money do these lazy youtuber fucks need?
Most, if not all of the top channels that promote these scams already get millions upon millions of views every year and somehow that isn't enough for them.
I wish every faggot that willingly deceived their audience into garbage like this to burn in hell.
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To be fair there is no transparency about what they make and advertising on YouTube can be wildly inconsistent.

The biggest problem with YouTube ads is that you can't discuss certain topics at all otherwise you will get demonetized - which is exactly why these channels get millions of views in the first place. The biggest, most mainstream channels rarely dare to rock the boat with what they cover or say and so we get boring, cookie cutter shit.

The exact reason why they ended up taking sponsor slots was because they pay very well and because they give channels a bit of diversification of income.

But they are of course greedy. Honey is far from the first or last or biggest scammy shit that a large number of mega channels have blindly allowed to be their sponsors. And the biggest problem is if it's just an ad it's whatever, but if it's a sponsor slot (which as per Google's rules must be properly filmed and can't be a title card) it is basically an endorsement of the sponsors product.

Half of these mega channels can't even review a phone or graphics card or whatever properly. They are the fucking last people on earth I would trust a product endorsement from.

To defend the channels involved somewhat: if you're installing a virtual coupon cutting extension on your browser then you're someone who is throwing away your privacy for a couple of cents to begin with.
 
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My hatred for YouTubers and sponsorships continues to be justified further. You've never sold me on your products, never will, and I will always despise you faggots because you will gladly waste your audiences time for an extra nickle, giving zero fucks if you're scamming or exploiting them in the process. Kikery at its finest.

Total YouTuber Death.
 
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Ghostse said:
Honey = Utterly based.
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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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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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