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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: 0.209s | 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. mrguyorama ◴[01 Apr 25 19:32 UTC] No.43550545[source]▶
The catch is that ground news fully accepts and perpetuates the stupidity of American political news interpretation by insisting on "right" vs "left".

It's probably not a nefarious scheme though, they just saw the clear market opening for "News that people think is impartial" from all the liberals that need to keep on top of the narrative that Fox News or New York Post publish but don't want to waste hours a week watching talking heads, and from all the blatant conservatives who need to validate their belief that the general conservative narrative for anything is "not political"