If you're sitting at a poker table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
Alternately, if you look at an online service and can't tell what the product is, It's you.
this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2024
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Yeah always look for where a service gets its money from before you get anything.
By now, youโve probably heard about Honey.
Nope, I guess because my ad blockers work and I skip over in-feed ads ๐คท
A lot of podcasts plug it. I've never bothered with it.
Next you'll tell me penis enlargement pills don't work and my Nigerian prince isn't going to pay me back.
I wonder if Honey's new ad blocker Pie does things like this too.
Exposing the "PIE" Influencer Disaster - (Same Developers as HONEY)
After an excellent video highlighting the predatory practices of "Honey" (made by "MegaLag")... I wanted to add my voice, and talk about an offshoot of that same company (with the same founders, staff, and apparent business model) that seems to go even one step further, and position itself as a detriment to the entire social media Creator ecosystem.
After Honey was successful in tricking almost all of YouTubes largest influencers (from Mr Beast, all the way to MoistCritikal) it was then seemingly acquired by PayPal, with this new project from its founder popping up, as we are given a rare opportunity to be pro-active in the pursuit of shutting down predatory practices on YouTube... before they officially take root.
I mean, if these guys are willing to do morally reprehensible stuff like this, then it should just be expected that they would do the same kind of thing for whatever new products they develop.
That's scummy, but I don't care if your ads for amazon on your blog or whatever don't work. Not my problem.
Yeah I don't understand the faux outrage here, but maybe that's because I'm not in a parasocial relationship with these influencers.
I always wondered how Honey made any money, so this answers that question and is actually a pretty ingenious (if somewhat underhanded) mechanism.
If you partnered with them as a sponsor and they took your commission money and paid you using some of the money that you would have otherwise gotten anyway, you'd probably be angry.
What I don't understand is why LMG kept quite about this. No matter how much PayPal paid them it wouldn't be more than how much they would be making with affiliate links also why join hands with karma which is also doing same and stealing from them.
Okay but why fuck PayPal.
They own Honey
But I imagine they have been doing this even before they got bought by them
I, too, own honey. I got it locally. Should I throw it out?
Nah, honey is good. But Honey with uppercase H is bad
Because they paid 4 billion to a fraud company lol. Also PayPal in general is pretty damn scummy.
Yeah I deleted honey a while ago just because it was owned by PayPal and it probably sells all your data. Just one extra reason to add to the pile.
The idea of honey is good though any possibilities of an open source version?