Tonight on GeekNights, we consider scams. In the news, the first malaria vaccine slashes early childhood mortality, Hookworms used to ravage the southern United States, the statue of the traitor was melted into slag, and Travis Dermott singlehandedly forced the NHL to change a terrible policy.
In case anyone wants to watch my guy Giles’ lecture, mentioned in the show.
Did you re-record the closing credits and blurb?
I’m surprised that you don’t stop listening before the credits play.
I’m also surprised that the new one is so close to the original that you have to ask.
I’m glad that I’m not the only one who noticed the ending blurb was slightly different.
Also, scott expressing shock and surprise at people actually listening to the podcast that he’s been creating for the last 16ish years will always be hilarious to me.
We changed some of the credits and slightly tweaked the descriptions of the different days.
But I also had to re-create the music. It wasn’t just a clip: the original was an edit of different parts of a song together plus some other audio futzing to make it the right length and impact. I made the original in the earliest days of GeekNights and didn’t keep the original file.
If I was the designer of the previous website, I wouldn’t want my name attached to the new one either. 
We probably should talk about the Honey Scam.
TL;DW: Honey is a browser extension which was advertised by a ton of different YouTubers and other influencers for years. Supposedly the extension would check the internet for various coupon codes and add them to various marketplaces while you were making a purchase. In the background however, honey would change the referral codes in so that the sale would be attributed to Honey as a company, rather than any referral links you clicked or even if you clicked none, even if the extension failed to find any coupons whatsoever, thus skimming off the top from everybody, even creators who never advertised Honey at all.
Furthermore, in the background it was colluding with these marketplaces so that the marketplace could determine which coupons Honey would apply if any, thus completely breaking the service that was advertised to the customer base.
As always, if the product is free, you’re the product. Legal Eagle has started a class action lawsuit.
One aspect that I think is very underdiscussed in this debacle is the actions, or rather inactions, by LinusTechTips. As per the video detailing the investigation by MegaLag, LTT found out how Honey operated and stopped their advertising partnership with them because of it. However, they neglected to tell anybody else. And they knew this years ago.