Honey Targeted Minors & Exploited Small Businesses

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• BradleyUffner@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I hate this thumbnail image.

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  • myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That alone is enough for me to not watch it.

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    • Noja@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The thumbnail is satire, the video is from the person who originally exposed the honey scam.

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    • BradleyUffner@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Right? It tickles something in the back of my brain that just makes me angry. I don’t want to reward that.

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    • W3dd1e@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t watch any videos with these stupid faces and I hate when someone I follow suddenly starts doing it. ಠ_ಠ

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  • k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, I’m gonna have to hide this post because it’s really creeping me out. It’s not even his video right? No way I’m clicking on that.

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• audaxdreik@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Finally! I was getting concerned with how long this was taking but see it was well worth the wait.

  Somehow even worse than I ever imagined, and there’s still more to come.

  I know we’re all jaded nerds on this corner of the internet that are well aware of “if you’re not paying, etc. etc.” but there’s real value in investigations like this. Just look at how massively damaging and long-running this scam has been. The future of cyber security and cyberwarfare can’t just be fought on tech knowledge alone, there’s a huge social component to it and a “You should’ve known; I told you so” attitude won’t help.

  Spread the information and reach out to those closest to you to offer sincere and genuine help. Help your friends, family, and coworkers uninstall these extensions and all extensions like them. I feel like we’re really coming to a point where all these tech industries have overextended themselves to a point where they are immensely vulnerable. Capitalism demands line always go up and if we can even slightly slow or possibly reverse that trend it could pop the bubble for a lot of these corporations.

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  • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I know we’re all jaded nerds on this corner of the internet that are well aware of “if you’re not paying, etc. etc.”

    Haven’t watched this video but IIRC the real scandal was that the extension would change the cookie to identify Honey as your referrer so the content creators whose referral you actually used didn’t get paid. No matter how jaded you are, you can see that as the theft it is

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    • audaxdreik@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s even worse than all that. The video is worth a watch if you have the time, he gets his hands on the leaked source code via accidental exposure on the Apple store, but then also covers other extensions that exhibit this same behavior as well as Microsoft Edge that just has it built into the browser. That’s right, even Microsoft is getting in on this by having their baseline browser without any extensions hijack the affiliate codes. It’s all so brazen …

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    • madjo@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The new video showcases how Honey extorted small stores into becoming a paying affiliate with Honey in order to be able to keep certain discounts out of Honey’s database.

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• JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Honey is a great example of corporate greed and enshittification turned to 11. It started as a simple free extension for collecting and trying discount coupons, and turned to a massive greedy scam with enough financial backing to start blackmailing webshops for profit.

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• lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A agree with most of it, but…

  If you (a business) want to give out coupons only “internally” (usually only to employees), allowing ANYONE to redeem them is just stupid. That system is designed to be exploited. IMO, this is either a bug or very bad application planning.

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  And I have an idea for a “honey trap trap”… Whenever someone tries to redeem an “internal” coupon code in your shop, do this: If the person is employee, let them redeem it. If not, display “Attention! You have a dangerous spyware called Honey on your PC. Please uninstall it as soon as possible” with a link to this video…

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• k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I thought honey disappeared like two years ago after some scandal.

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  • KaChilde@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is the continuation of that scandal, from the same creator who documented the initial incident.

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    • DacoTaco@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      And boooyyyy did it get worse haha

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• SweetCriticalPumpkin@reddthat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  such an incredible video. very thorough deep dive further exposing the honey scam.

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  • Duranie@leminal.space ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I really had no intention to start my day with a video, but here I am. Was worth it though.

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