🖕 Fuck PayPal

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

  • poke@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2712·
    3 days ago

    Some very vocal people on Lemmy just love hating on LTT. I don’t 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 wasn’t a secret, and anyone who cared to do in-depth research on a potential sponsor could have found out.

    • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      2 days ago

      I don’t think this topic was worth them making a main channel video on

      Their viewers getting scammed by tech they promoted isn’t 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 (edit: and made choices/comments I would disprove of) but the dunking here does seem disproportionate.

      • whats_all_this_then@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        I’m definitely noticing a lot of hate warranted or not bjt it’s honestly also been hard to defend them after their last “scandal”. Once bitten twice shy…

        Same reason I don’t try to give CD Projekt RED the benefit of the doubt anymore even though I loved Cyberpunk despite the messed up launch, and it seems they’ve largely redeemed themselves - I now realize where their priorities lie.

    • sardaukar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      3 days ago

      And yet here’s the scandal being exposed TWO YEARS LATER. Yeah, LTT couldn’t possibly have handled this better… /s

      • poke@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        73·
        2 days ago

        They told everyone and nobody cared, turns out people care if a YouTube video is made framing the same thing differently. Like yeah, Honey’s 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 don’t 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. It’s 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, it’s them.