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

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657 points tantalor | 2 comments | 31 Mar 25 18:28 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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0rzech ◴[31 Mar 25 19:06 UTC] No.43538563[source]▶
It's ironic that probably the biggest victims were youtubers and other "influencers" who mindlessly promoted this extension to their viewers, for money of course.
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1. johnnyanmac ◴[31 Mar 25 22:03 UTC] No.43540461[source]▶
It's actually a trrickle-down system. Smaller youtubers who have never heard of the extension (let alone were approached to advertise) may be hurt the most, because a larger youtuber who took the deal advertised it. e.g. a tech youtuber could be hit a lot if Linus Tech Tips advertise Honey, because they have a strong overlap in subscribers.

It was something a youtuber I was subscribed to was talking about in how he was still seeing his affiliate numbers drop overthe last year or so, and it was actually putting his existing deals in danger. Then as a test after the expose, he asked a few family members who did use his links if they also installed Honey. He definitely never advertised Honey himself.

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2. 0rzech ◴[01 Apr 25 12:46 UTC] No.43546129[source]▶
Hm, you actually may be right. Those, who promoted it, at least got some money back for that promotion. Others lost money without getting anything back from Honey. Damn, that's even worse.