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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I am fine with them scamming influencers. I am not fine with them being paid by websites to not give the best deals

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What kind of rat is fine with scammers?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm all for scamming scammers, but I'm quite happy to give a tip to YouTubers I watch by way of e-commerce commissions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I agree, and support many of my fav content creators directly in various ways.

I was directly replying to the comment I replied to, not calling all influences scammers lol. Though there absolutely are many

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So all influencers are scammers…?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I didn't specifically say that lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Your okay with a large corporation stealing from the working class? Why is that? I'm sure only a very few of the make good money.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe because anyone who calls themselves "influencers" are just as bad as corporate execs, but, oftentimes, more insistent/stupid in their shilling so people hate them more.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

So you hate sales people in general

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Almost every one who has tried to sell to me yeah.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

lol "influencers" are trash

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I don't think they said that. However, I am. For the most part they are my enemy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

well, this segment of the working class are selling obvious scams to their audience, so its a funny ironic justice. People like Linus from LTT, only stopped because he found out they are scamming him as well, not just the audience.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Yep. and he decided to let the scam keep happening to everyone else by being absolutely silencio on the subject.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Topcashback consistently beats honey and others out (almost all competitors beat honey btw). And they pay out and have customer support. Easily thr best way to sell your personal data to a shadowy data broker

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

All TopCashback is doing is taking the commission and giving you some of it. They take less of a cut than other sites like Rakuten, which I guess they can do since they have fewer overheads (eg I've never seen a TV ad for them). I don't think they're selling any user data.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The permissions on their extension allows for them to read site data so they definitely could operate as a data broker. However their tos has no mention of any data sharing so you are likely correct that they just take a commission. Great site imo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I didn't even realise they have an extension. I just use the site.

I also use CashbackMonitor.com, which lets you look up a site and see a list of all the cashback sites that support it. Sometimes, during promotions (like Black Friday), Rakuten's cashback is temporarily higher than TopCashback's.