One of the scams Honey has done is giving you a lower value coupon. It’d find both but companies would pay them to send you the lower value coupon.
I guess you are still saving some money but you could have saved a lot more.
You’re ok with that?
Yep. If I’m too lazy to look it up myself, I don’t give a shit if it gives me the second best coupon. And most of the time, I can’t be arsed. So it’s really just buying straight off the website with no coupon code vs at least having a coupon code presented to me.
Many of the YT sites I watch are reviews or descriptions of products that I might want to buy, have bought, or just haven’t heard of yet. Not all reviews are useful, but many are. And if I haven’t heard of a new item, having a link available immediately at least allows me to investigate it further.
These sites provide a useful service to me. I always reward them with a “like”, but if I end up buying the product, I think they deserve more credit, and an affiliate link is quite reasonable; I have benefitted, and so have they.
So if some nefarious program hijacks that link without notifying either party, I don’t think that is fair. It’s crooked business. And that is what Honey appears to be doing.