🖕 Fuck PayPal

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

  • frezik@midwest.social
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    23 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.

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      16 hours ago

      And then they took sponsorships from Karma which does the exact same thing

    • Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world
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      21 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.

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        20 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.

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      19 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.