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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] 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Rakuten is up front about it. They force their affiliate links, then pay you part of their cut.

Honey forces their affiliate links in exchange for maybe finding you a discount code.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I also think Rakuten compensates me fairly. I take the payout in Amex points. Instead of money they give me 1 cent per point which I can leverage to a value of around 5 cpp through transfers

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I book my hotels for with them for generally 5%. It adds up.