Honey (coupon browser extension) scam

Never heard of it, sounds like everyone got what the deserved from every angle.

For fear of repeating myself from elsewhere, people who believe in marketing are the issue not the marketeers or the marketing.
 
Journey said:
Never heard of it, sounds like everyone got what the deserved from every angle.

For fear of repeating myself from elsewhere, people who believe in marketing are the issue not the marketeers or the marketing.
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How so if those advertising it didn't know?
 
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MatsyLR said:
How so if those advertising it didn't know?
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LTT are a good example. They found out about it, didn't report it or let their viewers know, then partnered with another coupon scam system.

So many products have ridiculous affiliate commission, which is coming out of the consumers pocket. Marketing is never for your benefit.
 
Journey said:
Never heard of it, sounds like everyone got what the deserved from every angle.

For fear of repeating myself from elsewhere, people who believe in marketing are the issue not the marketeers or the marketing.
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It's a legit browser extension to find coupons. Edge browser have now implemented some of the coupon code functionality natively. It would not be inconceivable to think someone would use it regardless of what advertising method they used.

Note, the end users were never impacted once by this scandal. It was the people trying to get affiliate commission..
 
I’m just wondering why LTT didn’t make more of a fuss about it, and then weirdly got in bed with another scam affiliate links sponsor which is the more weird part.

The first part I would guess if they mentioned it louder beyond just a single forum post, it would seem like they are biting the hand that feeds them for the past 100+ sponsored videos and rather just cut ties quietly but why get into bed with Karma after?



dlockers said:
It's a legit browser extension to find coupons. Edge browser have now implemented some of the coupon code functionality natively. It would not be inconceivable to think someone would use it regardless of what advertising method they used.

Note, the end users were never impacted once by this scandal. It was the people trying to get affiliate commission..
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Honey’s codes where never the best one or lied about the existence of codes even if there were legit codes floating around.

Sure, you could argue that the end result would be the same if you had never searched but Honey claimed they always have the best codes. That is a lie. Because one can argue that had it not for Honey making that claim or had it not for the extension to be installed, the user would have googled for the code himself and thus got a better deal. The scam was the claim being false.
 
dlockers said:
It's a legit browser extension to find coupons. Edge browser have now implemented some of the coupon code functionality natively. It would not be inconceivable to think someone would use it regardless of what advertising method they used.

Note, the end users were never impacted once by this scandal. It was the people trying to get affiliate commission..
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Clearly the video couldn't have been a text because you appear to have not watched half of it.
 
It's worth reviewing your extensions and uninstalling anything that isn't absolutely necessary. It's very common for extensions to start doing malicious things. Installing an extension is today's version of clicking an email attachment.
 
Raymond Lin said:
Honey’s codes where never the best one or lied about the existence of codes even if there were legit codes floating around.

Sure, you could argue that the end result would be the same if you had never searched but Honey claimed they always have the best codes. That is a lie. Because one can argue that had it not for Honey making that claim or had it not for the extension to be installed, the user would have googled for the code himself and thus got a better deal. The scam was the claim being false.
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They werent ever *their* codes tho were they? It's just like the edge browser, it's codes that have been submitted by end users?
 
dlockers said:
They werent ever *their* codes tho were they? It's just like the edge browser, it's codes that have been submitted by end users?
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Not always, that could, say, have an arrangement with Very for a 5% code, but when Very themselves have a 10% code floating around too. Honey will use that 5% code they agreed with Very regardless. Probably had an arrangement with the retailer that they split the difference.
 
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