• Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

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

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      3 days ago

      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.

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        3 days ago

        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.

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        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.

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          3 days ago

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

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      3 days ago

      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

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        3 days ago

        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.

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          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

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            3 days 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.