frezik comments on PayPal Honey steals affiliate links and lies about finding the best coupons

[–] frezik@midwest.social 52 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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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[–] Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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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[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 years 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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[–] cocobean@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Could have a non disparagement clause in their former agreement

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[–] tabular@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

non disparagement clause

Not the level of a non-compete clause but that's a scummy thing I hope is not legal.

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[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago

It's fairly common. As far as legal, that will depend on the jurisdiction and the mood of the judge.

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[–] ebuttonsdude@ani.social 5 points 2 years ago

Linus said it would be on this week's WAN show

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[–] whats_all_this_then@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago*

Especially considering he hasn't been shy about ranting about a lot of things from (insert latest apple thing) to "fucking eggshell"

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[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml [S] 10 points 2 years ago

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

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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years 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.

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