🖕 Fuck PayPal

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

    • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
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      16 days 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.

    • CaptPretentious@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      15 days ago

      If only they had some medium to post the information, perhaps a medium that that VAST MAJORITY of their viewers use.

      “But the plans were on display…”

      “On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”

      “That’s the display department.”

      “With a flashlight.”

      “Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”

      “So had the stairs.”

      “But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”

      “Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”

      • whats_all_this_then@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        14 days ago

        I knew this was Douglas Adams by the tone but had to look it up to realize it was Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Time for a re-read!

      • JcbAzPx@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        14 days ago

        Their complaint was that honey inserted their affiliate cookie even when they didn’t find a coupon code for you. I doubt they knew the full extent of the scam.

        Plus, we don’t know what was in their contract with honey. They could still be subject to a non-disparagement clause.

        • CaptPretentious@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          14 days ago

          GN doesn’t seem to have a problem holding their sponsors accountable, putting a story together, doing their due diligence, and then letting everybody know.

    • poke@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      16 days 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.

      • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        12 days ago

        [Added information: LTT say they were unaware Honey was mistreating users. So they had no reason to make a video at the time they dropped Honey for mistreating them.]

        I don’t think this topic was worth them making a main channel video on

        Their viewers getting scammed by tech they promoted isn’t worth a video on their main channel? If they could legally do it I think they should have.

        Some very vocal people on Lemmy just love hating on LTT

        LTT have made mistakes (edit: and made choices/comments I would disprove of) but the dunking here does seem disproportionate.