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It seems the Honey Coupon extension wasn’t just making money by tracking purchases from users, but also by taking credit for the sales for PayPal (since they are owned by it) by changing your local cookies. Pretty shady if you ask me.
Reposting the same comment I made on another post:
It’s not just Honey swapping the affiliate codes. Practically all the major coupon sites do it too. That’s why they require you to click on a coupon code to reveal it. When you click, they usually reveal the coupon code in a new tab, and helpfully redirect the current tab to the store, using their affiliate link.
It’s more obvious when websites do it though, since they can’t auto-close the tab like Honey does. They also don’t automatically pop up at checkout like Honey does.
I imagine some of the other coupon extensions do the exact same thing as Honey though.
Yup. And this is why all these coupon sites exist. Absolutely none of them would be running this long if they weren’t profiting off it.
Nah, even without affiliate code shenanigans, there have been coupon sites for like forever. People REALLY want to find codes, it’s the best bait to fill their screen with ads, popups, malware, and whatever.
Thanks for the share and the new channel added to my favs!
The woman’s voice on the podcast was very AI’ish… I mean, the way she spoke, the wording… I know this is mostly marketing shit speaking, but that was the first thing that poped up into my mind when I heard her.
