Follow up video from MegaLag on the Honey scandal.
I hate this thumbnail image.
I didn’t choose it (not my video).
I’d encourage you to watch it anyway, if you can get past the trauma…
“trauma” is not the point here
The point is that all YouTube videos now have these extremely annoying clickbait thumbnails and titles and that is not a good thing
I hate them too, but that style of thumbnail has been a major YT thing for like a decade. Avoid them like the plague, myself, and even mark them as “not interested”, “don’t recommend channel” for the more annoying ones. Probably ain’t much of an impact, but at least teaching the algo what not to show me.
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.
No, it’s not my video, and it’s not like I chose the thumbnail.
I’ll just say folks, this has left me with a “people just like to complain” vibes.
The video is excellent, and exposing how the internet is the wild west of companies lying, cheating and stealing.
Maybe you could engage with that, rather than the creator having to make a stupid thumbnail to keep the algorithm happy.
I know it’s not your video, I meant it’s not the creator’s face on the thumbnail, sorry about that. I really can’t stand the thumbnail and I can’t give the click especially for a topic I don’t really care about. Honey sucks. I learned that a while ago.
That being said, thank you very much for sharing the video.
I thought honey disappeared like two years ago after some scandal.
He talks about how honey gets access to the codes by scraping every promo code submitted by the users. Doesn’t that mean that someone could automate something to submit false codes by the 100s whenever you are at checkout to fill PayPal with junk data? Making honey useless for everyone for that merchant because it can’t tell the real from the fake. An anti honey extension.
What’s PayPal going to do? Try to sue because the data they are illegally obtaining is being tainted? Obviously the codes wouldn’t work on merchants so they are fine in this.
This is basically already what my experience with honey was. Most of the codes didn’'t work.
Honestly thats my experience with most codes, in general.
Which is why those deal sites that give you codes are ultimately pointless, especially since they started making super specifically regional codes and other excessively extreme limitations that render it useless for everyone but one random guy that lives in a blue barn to the north east of a pig farm.
Oh, another MegaLag video about the honey situation.
Last time this happened, LTT had a psychotic meltdown and sic’d his base on GamersNexus for…reasons?
