if you have the Honey browser extension installed, uninstall it immediately. big big story broke on youtube today strongly indicating that Honey has been massively defrauding basically everyone who does any business with them at every level, including influencers, customers, and actual retailers.
the short version of ONE of the alleged crimes is that they’ve been hijacking referral links and codes. if you have honey installed on your browser at all, and you use any referral code from anyone, there is a high probability honey will swap out the referral link identifier for their own even if they don’t provide a coupon at checkout.
they also are just lying to you, and hiding coupons that very much exist. they’re completely fraudulent
paypal bought honey in 2019 for 4 billion, so paypal has been strip mining the influencer economy for 5 years now. the amount of money that’s been essentially stolen is unfathomable
from op in the comments because I didn’t quite understand the explanation above:
let’s say you watch a youtuber who is an artist who makes tutorials. she says “you can use my code MARTHA at ArtStore.com to get $10 off your order”. if you click the link in her youtube video, it opens ArtStore.com/ref=MARTHA in a new tab so ArtStore.com can track where the click came from and pay Martha for the business she sent them. but if you have honey installed in your browser they will change that link to ArtStore.com/ref=HONEY and steal the sale from Martha even though Martha is not a Honey affiliate. it’s diabolical
If you don’t care about this, just know they are also lying to you about discounts too.
They make deals with retailers to give you lower discounts codes so retailers would lose less money.
amhrancas 