HiddenLayer555PayPal Honey steals affiliate links and lies about finding the best coupons
nooneescapesthelawLtt didn’t hide shit, they posted it on a public forum
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.
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.
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.
Could have a non disparagement clause in their former agreement
tabularnon disparagement clause
Not the level of a non-compete clause but that’s a scummy thing I hope isn’t legal.
It’s 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 week’s WAN show
Especially considering he hasn’t been shy about ranting about a lot of things from <insert latest apple thing> to “fucking eggshell”
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.
And then they took sponsorships from Karma which does the exact same thing