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Honey has now lost 4M Chrome users after shady tactics were revealed

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657 points tantalor | 1 comments | 31 Mar 25 18:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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magicalhippo ◴[31 Mar 25 19:20 UTC] No.43538715[source]▶
A couple of YouTubers I watch promoted this and given what I assumed it did, I'm surprised that's all it does.

If it seems to good to be true, it probably is.

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willy_k ◴[31 Mar 25 20:20 UTC] No.43539459[source]▶
Something that has been making the sponsorship rounds now is Ground News[0] which I have found very useful with just the free tier. But given how many people I have seen sponsored by them, I wonder if there is some catch, especially because I can’t imagine that many people sign up for the paid service. I can’t think of what that catch would be though, they do not have unique access to personal data, and I haven’t seen anything that would indicate that they have any information agenda.

[0] https://ground.news

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1. totallynothoney ◴[31 Mar 25 21:36 UTC] No.43540255[source]▶
The catch is that the premise of the service is faulty.

Their segmentation of news organizations according to bias, can be obviously be biased itself. That's not a problem necessarily, but the service promotes itself as neutral while it's VC funded. You are part of a demographic that will be propagandized in the future to recoup costs.