🖕 Fuck PayPal

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

      • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        They have a budget spent on advertising on wikipedia itself, plus the cost of the emails they send out asking for donations.

        • pixelscript@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          Does it even count if you’re advertising on your own platform? If I’m able to see the “ads” in the first place, I’m already using it.

          I also wouldn’t exactly call a donation drive “advertising” either. They’re not trying to onboard more users to the service, they’re nagging people who already use the service to give them money. Which is itself leaning a bit on the wall of what is and isn’t “free”.

    • amzd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      34·
      3 days ago

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