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

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663 points tantalor | 1 comments | 31 Mar 25 18:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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elamje ◴[31 Mar 25 21:12 UTC] No.43540034[source]▶
Have a friend high up at one of the “Big 3” in this space.

The entire business model is predicated on injecting themselves as the last click for attribution even when they weren’t remotely responsible for the conversion. Cool business, but can’t keep going on forever without someone catching on.

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paulryanrogers ◴[01 Apr 25 00:11 UTC] No.43541439[source]▶
Shame so many creators took the Honey paycheck, even while Honey was taking money out of their pocket by stealing affiliate links. I guess few really vet their sponsors. Not even LTT or MrBeast!
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cedws ◴[01 Apr 25 06:05 UTC] No.43543344[source]▶
BetterHelp is arguably worse. Everything I've heard about them sounds terrible, but they're all over YouTube and presumably they're getting a lot of vulnerable customers who will never receive the support they need.

The YouTubers that peddle this shit have no morals.

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lbarron6868 ◴[01 Apr 25 19:45 UTC] No.43550657[source]▶
Every single podcast I listen to is sponsored by BetterHelp, nearly all of them.
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1. dpig_ ◴[03 Apr 25 00:45 UTC] No.43563493[source]▶
I'd take that as an indictment on those podcasts. All the stuff I listened to / watched that used them in the past has dropped them for more than a year by now.

I think Johnny Harris may still run adverts for them? But I watch him mostly because he's such a suspicious character to begin with.