Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam
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🖕 Fuck PayPal

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

    • Jin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      411·
      3 days ago

      I watched it, but I’ll reserve my judgment until the next wan show because I don’t know if it has been mentioned before on an earlier show or how the problem has been interpret by staff.

      • dukeofdummies@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        3 days ago

        … 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.

        • Jin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          35·
          3 days ago

          I dunno why you keep sending me a bunch of text and videos. I’m going to wait until the next wan show, so I can understand what really happened inside.

          • whats_all_this_then@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            3 days ago

            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.

            • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              2 minutes 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?

            • Jin@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              31 minutes ago

              I saw the wan show and they didn’t know they were affecting viewers, only affecting themselves. They address the problem and moved on. If viewers were affected, they would probably have made it a bigger deal.

              I still don’t understand why it’s Linus’ job, just because he does “tech”? There are even bigger creators like MKBHD or Mark Rober (has scam videos). They have information now, but will they probably not even address it.