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PayPal Honey steals affiliate links and lies about finding the best coupons (youtube.com)

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🖕 Fuck PayPal

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

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[–] amzd@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Their advertisement budget is collected by guilt tripping Wikipedia users using the lie that the website would cease if they didn’t ”donate”.

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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Yes, their method of advertising/fundraising is atrocious. They still have an advertising budget and their product is benevolent and free.

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[–] amzd@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I agree

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