🖕 Fuck PayPal

And fuck Linus Tech Tips for intentionally keeping quiet about this after they found out.

    • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
      39·
      17 hours ago

      They didn’t hide it, but a huge portion of their audience doesn’t read the forums. A 10 minute video of Linus ranting about them would have opened this scandal to a wider audience years ago.

      • Retro_unlimited@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        16 hours ago

        Linus usually likes to rant about it on the WAN show then they usually make a clip for YouTube, but weird he didn’t do that for honey, maybe he didn’t know how far the scam went.

        • zqps@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          15·
          15 hours ago

          As creator that makes some of their profits from affiliate links, I don’t see how that could be the case for him.

          Seems more likely they had a reason to avoid beef with PayPal.

      • buddascrayon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        13 hours ago

        There may have been non-disclosure agreements between Linus tech tips and PayPal Honey. They may have threatened to sue him if he went public. I’m assuming we’ll find out the details in the next few weeks.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      253·
      20 hours ago

      Yeah, that not nothing but it isn’t far off. They have a massive platform. It deserved at least a video telling people about it.

    • poke@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1910·
      16 hours ago

      Some very vocal people on Lemmy just love hating on LTT. I don’t think this topic was worth them making a main channel video on, I think their forum post was good and I believe they even mentioned this functionality of Honey a few times on the WAN show. It wasn’t a secret, and anyone who cared to do in-depth research on a potential sponsor could have found out.

      • sardaukar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        13 hours ago

        And yet here’s the scandal being exposed TWO YEARS LATER. Yeah, LTT couldn’t possibly have handled this better… /s

        • poke@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          32·
          10 hours ago

          They told everyone and nobody cared, turns out people care if a YouTube video is made framing the same thing differently. Like yeah, Honey’s practice is bad for the creator industry, but is it bad enough to bring it back to the people who took their money? No, I don’t think so.I think this is more of an example of how easy it is to get the masses angry with a YouTube video than anything. It’s good that more people are going to move away from this information harvesting app, but I really feel like the reaction and hatred is overblown and, at least for the hatred towards creators, unwarranted.

          The way I see it, people still take money from predatory gambling sites, and if any creator deserves pushback, it’s them.