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It was never a secret that shopping extensions monetized through affiliate. Merchants certainly know what they’re signing up for.



> It was never a secret

Their business model was never explained clearly on their website. Now that how it works has become common knowledge, its absolutely wrecked honey's public perception.

Merchants may have known what they were signing up for (if they signed up at all). But the general public had no idea.


Actually if you check wayback they've been telling us straight up since 2016 they make money off of commissions. https://web.archive.org/web/20180125135216/http://help.joinh...

Affiliate attribution wasn't explained in full but MegaLag with all his research still didn't accurately explain it since it's pretty complex. The user doesn't need to know this.

Doesn't make sense to explain all the nuts and bolts if it works the same way any other coupon website would.


But the most important group - users- didn't know, and one they learned about the "never a secret" info, a large chunk of them left




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