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by mrguyorama 533 days ago
I thought they used their extension to improve advertising tracking and selling that data. Hell, they even could have been an old style "we will burn $100 million to acquire a bunch of customers and then do dumb customer milking strategies" business like nearly ever single other business youtubers advertise.

I did NOT think they purposely, aggressively, stole affiliate attribution from advertisers while pretending to look for coupon codes that never existed or even ignoring actual coupon codes on purpose.

Most people are not familiar with affiliate marketing even existing, how much of a bubble are you in that this SPECIFIC business strategy is surprising to people confuses you?