Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam
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Was Honey a legitimate money saving tool? Or just an affiliate marketing scam promoted by some of YouTube's biggest influencers?If you have any inside inform...

🖕 Fuck PayPal

And fuck Linus Tech Tips for intentionally keeping quiet about this after they found out.

  • eRac@lemmings.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 day ago

    Rakuten is up front about it. They force their affiliate links, then pay you part of their cut.

    Honey forces their affiliate links in exchange for maybe finding you a discount code.

    • gt5@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      I also think Rakuten compensates me fairly. I take the payout in Amex points. Instead of money they give me 1 cent per point which I can leverage to a value of around 5 cpp through transfers