Say you wanted to support JonTron, so you signed up using promo code JonTron20 to get 20 percent off your first year free.
If you used Honey, it would stop you at checkout and ask if you wanted to check for better deals. If you checked, they would either: A: give you a better discount code (but doesn't support JonTron) or B: they would say "20% is the best we could find" and switch your discount code to their own ( that doesn't support JonTron).
The outcome is, JonTron loses out on the referral that he earned by his ad and Honey (PayPal) gains a referral that they didn't earn.
What's the scam? I'm too busy to watch the video.
Changes the referral code at checkout to PayPal's (honey's owner) cheating people out of their commissions
Say you wanted to support JonTron, so you signed up using promo code JonTron20 to get 20 percent off your first year free.
If you used Honey, it would stop you at checkout and ask if you wanted to check for better deals. If you checked, they would either: A: give you a better discount code (but doesn't support JonTron) or B: they would say "20% is the best we could find" and switch your discount code to their own ( that doesn't support JonTron).
The outcome is, JonTron loses out on the referral that he earned by his ad and Honey (PayPal) gains a referral that they didn't earn.
And if you aren't already using that 20% off code, the retailer pays them to give you a 5% off code and pretend that that's the best they could find.