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πŸ–• Fuck PayPal

And fuck Linus Tech Tips for intentionally keeping quiet about this after they found out.

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[–] [email protected] 192 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I never trusted Honey to begin with but this goes far deeper than I ever expected. I always wondered "yeah, but where do they get their money?" I always figured it was just a way to take people's data and sell it to data brokers (which they probably also do, let's be honest) but this is just blatant fraud. Stealing affiliate money from links and having companies pay them to purposefully give out worse coupon codes is just devious through and through. It's basically free money and everybody else, whether influencer or consumer, get fucked over in the process.

[–] altima_neo 82 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah I always wondered what the catch was? The CEO was always posting on Reddit trying to defend honey and how cool they were.

Either way, I never trust any shopping deal plugins. The whole idea of them is sketchy.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Only shopping plugin I use is the one that comes with Edge. Surprisingly good to track price history and find other sites selling the product. I considered some Chrome plugin that displays an Amazon product's country of origin to avoid Chinesium but apparently it didn't work well or something like that from reading the reviews. Had some attached rewards function for shopping with it, ick.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It's funny how Edge got lambasted for it when they introduced that feature, but it's legitimately super helpful and non-invasive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

I had no idea it was, I don't keep up with browser news. I just wish they didn't migrate to Chromium. It became my main browser for a brief period before that.

I just used it randomly when I was working and doing some shopping for a computer in my downtime and decided to try out the feature. That and the AI are super good when combo'ed to shop smart. Managed to save $800 off a quality laptop.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There’s a good one for Amazon called Keepa that shows you the price history of the item. Helps a ton keeping prices in check during sales like Prime Day to see how much you are actually saving, if anything.

Also nice to see how much you could potentially save if you just wait for the next sale or if there was already a price decrease. Often times it looks like I’m good buying without waiting for any sale as the sales only knocked off a few dollars, at most.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Nice! Thanks for the recommendation, I love having alternatives in case anything unexpectedly goes down.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Thank you for the recommendation, looks neat. Tracking prices of different conditions is a nice touch. I'll have to scrutinize it further when I make my next online purchases and chuck it into Edge as I made that my dedicated shopping browser.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

https://keepa.com/!

I use this extension to get a general idea of whether a product usually goes for cheaper and whether or not to wait. Really conveniently on the Amazon page directly.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago

Also pcpartpicker to track pc parts. Isthereanydeals for game prices.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I always assumed it was a combination of your guess and companies giving Honey special coupon codes so consumers are more eager to spend.

"Hey Honey, we'll give you 1% commission if you just host this HONEY5 coupon for 5% off."

That was my impression when I used it once. Wasn't worth having an extension just for a slight discount. Love when a company doesn't fulfill the service they advertise.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

But that would be an ethical business model, we can't have that, this is PayPal and this is the internet. There's no place for ethics in that combination.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

everybody else, whether influencer or consumer, get fucked over in the process.

Enshittification correctly defined.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Same. I never downloaded it or anything like it but I didn’t realize they were playing both sides. It’s fucked.