🖕 Fuck PayPal

And fuck Linus Tech Tips for intentionally keeping quiet about this after they found out.

  • TommySoda@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I never trusted Honey to begin with but this goes far deeper than I ever expected. I always wondered “yeah, but where do they get their money?” I always figured it was just a way to take people’s data and sell it to data brokers (which they probably also do, let’s be honest) but this is just blatant fraud. Stealing affiliate money from links and having companies pay them to purposefully give out worse coupon codes is just devious through and through. It’s basically free money and everybody else, whether influencer or consumer, get fucked over in the process.

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      3 days ago

      I always assumed it was a combination of your guess and companies giving Honey special coupon codes so consumers are more eager to spend.

      “Hey Honey, we’ll give you 1% commission if you just host this HONEY5 coupon for 5% off.”

      That was my impression when I used it once. Wasn’t worth having an extension just for a slight discount. Love when a company doesn’t fulfill the service they advertise.

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        3 days ago

        But that would be an ethical business model, we can’t have that, this is PayPal and this is the internet. There’s no place for ethics in that combination.

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      3 days ago

      everybody else, whether influencer or consumer, get fucked over in the process.

      Enshittification correctly defined.