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๐Ÿ–• Fuck PayPal

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

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[โ€“] [email protected] 39 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

And then they took sponsorships from Karma which does the exact same thing

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Linus usually likes to rant about it on the WAN show then they usually make a clip for YouTube, but weird he didnโ€™t do that for honey, maybe he didnโ€™t know how far the scam went.

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 13 hours ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 13 hours ago

Could have a non disparagement clause in their former agreement

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

Linus said it would be on this week's WAN show

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

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.