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YouTuber LegalEagle sues PayPal over 'sleeping leech' Honey extension | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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[–] micka190@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This gist of it from the WAN show was this:

  • They were unaware that it was intentionally not looking for the best deals (thus, scamming the consumer)
  • They stopped advertising Honey because of the referral hijacking
  • A ton of creators knew about it, and had already dropped Honey (people just talked about it via DMs, not publicly)
  • This all happened when YouTubers were getting shit on for even doing ads/sponsors, and they didn't want to make a video that was basically "stop using this thing that saves you money because it takes my money" (see first point)
[–] LucidNightmare@lemm.ee -3 points 2 days ago

Again, I must bring the point that you can still say your side of the story (here is what we found out about Honey) and caution users of the extension to be wary of not only this shady business, but that who knows what else they might be doing.

Do people really think that someone with the platform as big as Linus Tech Tips shouldn’t bring awareness to such topics? Why not? Especially if you were once shilling for them??