HiddenLayer555PayPal Honey steals affiliate links and lies about finding the best coupons
nooneescapesthelawLtt didnât hide shit, they posted it on a public forum
Yeah, that not nothing but it isnât far off. They have a massive platform. It deserved at least a video telling people about it.
They didnât hide it, but a huge portion of their audience doesnât read the forums. A 10 minute video of Linus ranting about them would have opened this scandal to a wider audience years ago.
Linus usually likes to rant about it on the WAN show then they usually make a clip for YouTube, but weird he didnât do that for honey, maybe he didnât know how far the scam went.
As creator that makes some of their profits from affiliate links, I donât see how that could be the case for him.
Seems more likely they had a reason to avoid beef with PayPal.
Could have a non disparagement clause in their former agreement
tabularnon disparagement clause
Not the level of a non-compete clause but thatâs a scummy thing I hope isnât legal.
Itâs fairly common. As far as legal, that will depend on the jurisdiction and the mood of the judge.
Linus said it would be on this weekâs WAN show
Especially considering he hasnât been shy about ranting about a lot of things from <insert latest apple thing> to âfucking eggshellâ
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. Iâm assuming weâll find out the details in the next few weeks.
And then they took sponsorships from Karma which does the exact same thing
Some very vocal people on Lemmy just love hating on LTT. I donât think this topic was worth them making a main channel video on, I think their forum post was good and I believe they even mentioned this functionality of Honey a few times on the WAN show. It wasnât a secret, and anyone who cared to do in-depth research on a potential sponsor could have found out.
And yet hereâs the scandal being exposed TWO YEARS LATER. Yeah, LTT couldnât possibly have handled this better⌠/s
They told everyone and nobody cared, turns out people care if a YouTube video is made framing the same thing differently. Like yeah, Honeyâs practice is bad for the creator industry, but is it bad enough to bring it back to the people who took their money? No, I donât think so.I think this is more of an example of how easy it is to get the masses angry with a YouTube video than anything. Itâs good that more people are going to move away from this information harvesting app, but I really feel like the reaction and hatred is overblown and, at least for the hatred towards creators, unwarranted.
The way I see it, people still take money from predatory gambling sites, and if any creator deserves pushback, itâs them.
I donât think this topic was worth them making a main channel video on Their viewers getting scammed by tech they promoted isnât worth a video on their main channel? If they could legally do it I think they should have.
Some very vocal people on Lemmy just love hating on LTT LTT have made mistakes but the dunking here does seem disproportionate.
Iâm definitely noticing a lot of hate warranted or not bjt itâs honestly also been hard to defend them after their last âscandalâ. Once bitten twice shyâŚ
dantheclammanThey could have been exposed to legal liability to report on a business partner like that.
If only they had some medium to post the information, perhaps a medium that that VAST MAJORITY of their viewers use.
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âBut look, you found the notice, didnât you?â
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Theyâre complaint was that honey inserted their affiliate cookie even when they didnât find a coupon code for you. I doubt they knew the full extent of the scam.
Plus, we donât know what was in their contract with honey. They could still be subject to a non-disparagment clause.
GN doesnât seem to have a problem holding their sponsors accountable, putting a story together, doing their due diligence, and then letting everybody know.
I knew this was Douglas Adams by the tone but had to look it up to realize it was Hitchhikerâs Guide to the Galaxy. Time for a re-read!