What? I totally use Honey. I mean, I haven’t been using it long — but I did fall for it and install it! It has come out that Honey is basically just a giant scam. Here’s where I’m getting my info. I first saw it here:
But he’s getting all his info from this guy that did the actual investigation. So I recommend you watch THIS video:
Basically, Honey only exists to steal affiliate links. And as a bonus, if shops partner with it — they can have Honey only display low coupon codes — even if you can google and get way better ones. It’s fucking everyone!
Oh damn, Paypal (who owns Honey), that’s DIRTY.
So basically if someone sells you on a product and you go buy it, they should get a little kickback for the commission. They were your sales-person so they get a commission. BUT, Honey is canceling them out and taking the full credit. Meaning Honey gets all of the commission and the original person who sold it to you gets nothing. But they’re also fucking YOU.
YOU downloaded Honey so you can stop googling for coupon codes. I did too! So now you’re not googling for sales codes anymore. Well, that’s a damn shame, because you’d be saving a lot of money if you were still doing that. If the store has partnered with Honey, they can have Honey control what you see. If you had googled, you might have found a good or better code (even if Honey shows nothing) — but the store doesn’t want you to see that coupon code so Honey doesn’t show it to you.
Even if the Honey window just pops up and says it has nothing, if you click it — THEY GET YOUR COMMISSION. Even if you don’t care about anyone getting a commission, do you wanna give it to PayPal? A percentage of almost every single purchase you make online? Just toss PayPal some of your money for free.
God forbid you were trying to support a business too — cause you could have given them your business, but now Honey is taking a commission on that sale.
HA. That’s so fucking shady.
Sooo… You’re gonna want to uninstall Honey and go back to looking for your own coupon codes. Go to settings > Extensions > My Extensions > UNINSTALL THAT SHIT.
That’s pretty damn epic. It only exists to steal money.
You know in Office Space where they just skimmed percentages of a penny off each transaction? Honey’s getting a LOT MORE than that! WHAT?
Low key kinda props for being that evil. That’s balls.
Let me get my popcorn and watch the epic fall of this company. I can’t believe all of the people who have been promoting this scam that’s been fucking them over the whole time. It’s using the people it’s fucking over to sell it! EPIC! Did Satan design this?