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PayPal Honey steals affiliate links and lies about finding the best coupons (youtube.com)
submitted 2 years ago* by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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๐Ÿ–• Fuck PayPal

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

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[โ€“] [S] 42 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

They're one of the largest tech media companies and deliberately chose to sweep this under the rug instead of reporting on it. Then they took sponsorships from Karma, which is a competitor to Honey that does the exact same thing.

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  • [โ€“] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    seriously... did you watch the video?

    https://youtu.be/vc4yL3YTwWk?t=785

    Here. Here's a link to the exact moment that entire chapter starts.

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  • [โ€“] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    ... Ok well here's the link to the moment (in the video you watched) where we have one **staff ** member giving an official response to how LTT interpreted the problem in a forum post on their website.

    https://youtu.be/vc4yL3YTwWk?t=811

    And here's a link to their youtube channel where they talk about honey

    https://www.youtube.com/@LinusTechTips/search?query=honey

    You'll notice. There isn't one.

    So for at least two years, they knew honey was stealing affiliate links and considered it a big enough problem to end their partnership, but did not consider it a big enough issue to make a video on it.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I'm down to listen to their response myself but as someone who tried really hard to explain away their last dumb controversy only to be proven wrong multiple times, I wouldn't be surprised if it was just pure negligence. Actions speak louder than words and their actions have shown they're a flawed company like any other despite what their conversations on WAN show would have you believe.

    Fuck Honey/PayPal first and foremost, don't get me wrong. But unless there were legal issues around it, we also can't ignore it if the biggest tech YouTube channel found out about one of the biggest sponsors on YouTube being a scam, stopped working with them for that reason, but said absolutely nothing to anyone else.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Linus said they were unaware Honey was being bad for users when they dropped Honey.

    I'm unaware of when Honey was purposely giving users not the best coupons - did that happen back then?

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    First of all, Lemmy has a lot of users for whom English is a second language. So maybe don't be a jackass about correcting grammar.

    Secondly, in case you happen to be in that group of people 'largest media company' in this context applies to their reach, and not to their actual size. They are 'large' because they have a large audience, generate a lot of revenue, and are worth a lot of money. LMG also comprises 10 different YouTube channels with maybe 10 billion views between them.

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