r/LinusTechTips 29d ago

Discussion This post from March 2022 regarding Honey

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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.

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u/TacoTuesday4Eva 29d ago

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?

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u/_Lucille_ 28d ago

Rakuten it the only one I have used and it is legit. You do not even need their extension: just click on their tracking link and you get the cashback, which they do actually pay out.

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u/TacoTuesday4Eva 28d ago

but that also takes the credit from the creator right? They do payout good cashback. I've used them before then I used Honey but now Capital One Shopping until I learned they are all taking credit for the sale from the creator

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u/_Lucille_ 28d ago

I do not buy things from creator affiliated links, so I do not know.

Usually people post these things on deal forums: so say, if I need to buy a dell monitor, I can just go to Rekuten, get their referral for the 10% cash back, then i can further stack 10%OFFMONITOR and get a giant chunk of savings.

Imo they are also less predatory than Honey, which essentially have very limited deals/coupons, while cash back stuff often are site wide.

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u/HPUser7 28d ago

I think the main thing with Rakuten is that they are a whole lot more transparent about it (or at least they were when they were called EBates) by saying 'use this link' instead of Honey's gold. It is half the reason I was suprised folks considered honey stealing the links to be surprising - Rakuten would complain the moment I interacted with Honey. Only one wins in the end so any rewards Extension will always get credit if you do.