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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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    6 hours ago

    That requires effort up-front every time I click download.

    I’d rather just click ‘download’ and let it go to an easy to find default location. The desktop means I won’t just forget about it for months. It may sit there for a day or two, but it definitely won’t get ignored the way a folder I rarely look at does; because the clutter right in my face annoys me into cleaning it up.

    Working around/against my own procrastination.




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    17 hours ago

    Everything downloads to the desktop, that way it’s in my face so I have to deal with it.

    The clutter on the desktop annoys me into cleaning it up, but I’ll ignore a downloads folder once I’ve grabbed whatever I just downloaded.






  • Honeys issues are two fold:

    Honey steals/replaces affiliate links/cookies meaning 100% of the commission earned by creators goes to Honey instead.

    Several small creators have come out to say this has essentially bankrupt their channels as the entirety of their affiliate revenue just disappears overnight, then their sponsors pullout because it appears they are generating no traffic.

    Honey also collude directly with retailers to control exactly what coupons are made available to you, explicitly preventing you from getting a better deal; while telling you they’ve gotten the best deal possible and convincing you to not even bother with other coupons or other sources. They even have a mechanism to ‘submit’ coupons they hadn’t applied to be distributed to other customers, to convince you you’re helping others get a good deal; but those submissions NEVER go to customers.

    This happens on every transaction within a browser that has Honey installed; even in cases where Honey knows before trying, that they don’t have coupons to offer. It will still popup, tell you they don’t have anything to offer, then replace the affiliate connection with their own.

    Through this they are stealing both from the customer and from any creators/affiliates that sent that customer to the store.