[nyrikki]

Much of the podcast problems were due to Honey leaking any promo code to the world, including employee discounts and customer specific discounts.

When Intuit is scraping every browser tab, there is no way to link a podcast campaign with engagement, so the way they were paid for driving traffic is lost.

Basically Honey copied the Ashley Madison model, unconstrained addition with a pay for delete. Ashley Madison had no email verification fyi, any bot or angry neighbor could sign you up for an account, then they wanted payment to delete.

Honey would extract any promo code they could find, then try to make you pay to remove it.