Hacker News Reader

The alternative to a company that is hiding real coupon codes and stealing affiliate marketing dollars?

Honestly, there's no good answer here because most of the work is manual, not automated, and there are a lot of opportunities for bad actors. It's just a bad model in general.

View on HN

There are legit communities which already collect that information in structured ways. For example https://www.ozbargain.com.au/ is quite Australia-oriented, but could be turned into an extension bringing up the coupon codes automatically.

I don't think it exists today, but someone could make a crowdsourced extension like SponsorBlock. That also eliminate the concern about hiding promo codes for companies who pay.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com