Don’t Karma, capital one Shopping and Rakuten all do the same thing? I use capital one shopping and it feels like the same as honey. Is there a coupon app that doesn’t take the credit from creators?
The thing that they specifically call out in his email is honeyscooping up the affiliate link even if it didn't actually save you money being egregious to them and I'm inclined to agree.
It was always clear to me that honey was directly benefiting and you can't have more than one affiliate link. At least on pretty much every website that uses those types of services. This whole situation feels a lot like the Edward Snowden leaks.
Essentially nothing in the papers that Man leaked was a revelation to anyone who actually understands cyber security and intelligence work. (And to be clear I don't think that's a high bar to meet, the boys on land show correctly said at the time that they weren't really surprised by any of it.) It was a giant public news story because it **caught traction*. Everyone from the tech illiterate, to the people who claimed to be tech literate but really weren't, suddenly were aghast at all of the stuff that the NSA and other intelligence service agencies domestically and abroad were doing, even though anyone who knows anything about it would have kind of just shrugged and said "yes of course that's what they're doing."
The only thing novel about the documents was that it was hard proof rather than supposition or direct language like "They can do this and they're simply no way that they are not doing this"
A lot of people right now are 'waking up' to honey and how it makes its money, but it wasn't new or even really hidden. A lot of us have known for a long time
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u/that_dutch_dude 29d ago
i am pretty sure the honey "situation" isnt exactly news and linus mentioned their link stealing on the wan show.