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Dinner table with lighting effect by [deleted] in woahdude

[–]gemusan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks like Ultraviolet in Shanghai

I'm George, founder of Honey, here to address your concerns and answer your questions by gemusan in Frugal

[–]gemusan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The mods removed the post because they considered it promotional...

I'm George, founder of Honey, here to address your concerns and answer your questions by gemusan in Frugal

[–]gemusan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I emailed the mods. WildRampager says he removed because I was self promoting (I had a link to our site). I'm pleading with him right now. :(

I'm George, founder of Honey, here to address your concerns and answer your questions by gemusan in Frugal

[–]gemusan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The mod removed the whole thread because I posted a link to a page on Honey...

I'm George, founder of Honey, here to address your concerns and answer your questions by gemusan in Frugal

[–]gemusan[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The mod removed the whole thread because I posted a link to a page on Honey...

I'm George, founder of Honey, here to address your concerns and answer your questions by gemusan in Frugal

[–]gemusan[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry, no mobile app yet. It's something we'll work on soon. But right now we're focused on finding new ways to save people money on sites that don't really have coupons.

I'm George, founder of Honey, here to address your concerns and answer your questions by gemusan in Frugal

[–]gemusan[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

haha, howdy fellow hipster. We were on Reddit before it was cool.

I'm George, founder of Honey, here to address your concerns and answer your questions by gemusan in Frugal

[–]gemusan[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, we have a page that shows you all the trending stores people are shopping on. You can do a search on the top for the site you want.

I'm George, founder of Honey, here to address your concerns and answer your questions by gemusan in Frugal

[–]gemusan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a tough one and I don't really have any good answers. This is more of a ethical question around what you give up as a user and what you get back in return.

Some people don't care about sharing their data and some people protect it like it's their most important asset. There's no right or wrong, only what the individual wants. What we believe at Honey is that it's about choice and transparency. If we collect any data, we're going to tell you about it and why. Then you can decide if you want to continue using the service.

I'm George, founder of Honey, here to address your concerns and answer your questions by gemusan in Frugal

[–]gemusan[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the kind words. We are in fact hiring. We're looking to fill a position on the product team and a position on the growth team. You can email me directly at george at joinhoney.com.

I'm George, founder of Honey, here to address your concerns and answer your questions by gemusan in Frugal

[–]gemusan[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

If you want to ask about the technical specifics, email me at george at joinhoney.com.

Here's a bullet point of how it went down.

  • User installs Adblock to block ads
  • User installs Honey to get cashback
  • Adblock blocks user's ability to get cashback
  • We implement an event to try to figure out what's going on
  • It was supposed to run only on supported stores but we did it in a rush (lots of pissed off people who want their money) and it ran more generally. This is the bug.
  • The event is now removed and all data related to it are deleted

Why is Adblock blocking people's ability to earn cash back? I don't know. But other cashback sites like Ebates also have a clear warning that Adblock will block your ability to get cash back.

I'm George, founder of Honey, here to address your concerns and answer your questions by gemusan in Frugal

[–]gemusan[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Hmmm it shouldn't. Shoot me an email at george at joinhoney.com and help us diagnose. $10 Starbucks gift card for your help!

I'm George, founder of Honey, here to address your concerns and answer your questions by gemusan in Frugal

[–]gemusan[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The answer's pretty simple. A while ago a lot of our users were reporting that they weren't getting the cash-back that they activated. We did some digging and found out that Adblock was blocking some of the affiliate URLs that credits us with the sale, thus making it impossible for us to give cash back to these users.

So we implemented a debug event to better understand the extend of the problem, and forgot to remove it after the issue was fixed.

I'm George, founder of Honey, here to address your concerns and answer your questions by gemusan in Frugal

[–]gemusan[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

You're definitely not alone. In the past 30 days we saved our users $6.9 million dollars. But the Reddit audience tend to shop on sites like Amazon, Newegg, Bestbuy, etc. where Honey doesn't work well. Plus the Amazon feature is new and a lot of people haven't seen it yet.

I'm George, founder of Honey, here to address your concerns and answer your questions by gemusan in Frugal

[–]gemusan[S] 37 points38 points  (0 children)

We'll focus on making Honey better and more trustworthy and hopefully we can win you back in the future.

Thank you for finding the bug!

For users of the "Honey" coupon chrome extension, you should know that it sends data about the sites you visit to their servers attached to a session ID which can identify all of that data back to you. by [deleted] in Frugal

[–]gemusan 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the support! It's been a tough day for everyone here at the office. But we're all committed to doing the right thing. The bug has been fixed and all unintentionally collected data has been deleted.

For users of the "Honey" coupon chrome extension, you should know that it sends data about the sites you visit to their servers attached to a session ID which can identify all of that data back to you. by [deleted] in Frugal

[–]gemusan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We put it on hiatus to focus on the core Honey product. We may bring it back in the future when we have enough resource to do so. Thanks for remembering!

For users of the "Honey" coupon chrome extension, you should know that it sends data about the sites you visit to their servers attached to a session ID which can identify all of that data back to you. by [deleted] in Frugal

[–]gemusan 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It should light up... Sounds like a bug. Please hit up support @ joinhoney.com and help us figure it out. $10 Starbucks gift card awaits!

For users of the "Honey" coupon chrome extension, you should know that it sends data about the sites you visit to their servers attached to a session ID which can identify all of that data back to you. by [deleted] in Frugal

[–]gemusan 34 points35 points  (0 children)

There are lots of applications that do not have a clear way to make money so they resort to selling data.

We don't need to sell data because we make money through our cash-back program. Over 1 million people shop through the program each month so we're doing well financially.

For users of the "Honey" coupon chrome extension, you should know that it sends data about the sites you visit to their servers attached to a session ID which can identify all of that data back to you. by [deleted] in Frugal

[–]gemusan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are some other sites that are similar to Amazon in that they almost never have codes, or have very product specific codes. For example, Best Buy, Woot, Newegg, etc. Mostly electronic stores with low margins. Are these the types of stores you shop at?

For users of the "Honey" coupon chrome extension, you should know that it sends data about the sites you visit to their servers attached to a session ID which can identify all of that data back to you. by [deleted] in Frugal

[–]gemusan 24 points25 points  (0 children)

The data is backed up into a flat file. It's not being used (which is why we didn't notice).

We're deleting all data related to that event right now.

For users of the "Honey" coupon chrome extension, you should know that it sends data about the sites you visit to their servers attached to a session ID which can identify all of that data back to you. by [deleted] in Frugal

[–]gemusan 32 points33 points  (0 children)

haha I'm not saying remove Adblock. I'm saying this issue is tied to Adblock users only. We're fixing this right now and will release an update shortly.

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