HiddenLayer555 to TechnologyEnglish · edit-22 days agoPayPal Honey steals affiliate links and lies about finding the best couponsyoutube.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up1189arrow-down112file-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldlatestagecapitalism@lemmygrad.mllatestagecapitalism@lemmy.world
arrow-up1177arrow-down1external-linkPayPal Honey steals affiliate links and lies about finding the best couponsyoutube.comHiddenLayer555 to TechnologyEnglish · edit-22 days agomessage-square17fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldlatestagecapitalism@lemmygrad.mllatestagecapitalism@lemmy.world
🖕 Fuck PayPal And fuck Linus Tech Tips for intentionally keeping quiet about this after they found out.
minus-squareParadoxvoid@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·18 hours agoYeah I don’t understand the faux outrage here, but maybe that’s because I’m not in a parasocial relationship with these influencers. I always wondered how Honey made any money, so this answers that question and is actually a pretty ingenious (if somewhat underhanded) mechanism.
minus-squarei_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·13 hours agoIf you partnered with them as a sponsor and they took your commission money and paid you using some of the money that you would have otherwise gotten anyway, you’d probably be angry.
Yeah I don’t understand the faux outrage here, but maybe that’s because I’m not in a parasocial relationship with these influencers.
I always wondered how Honey made any money, so this answers that question and is actually a pretty ingenious (if somewhat underhanded) mechanism.
If you partnered with them as a sponsor and they took your commission money and paid you using some of the money that you would have otherwise gotten anyway, you’d probably be angry.