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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] 24 points 19 hours ago (11 children)

Ltt didn't hide shit, they posted it on a public forum

[โ€“] Cethin 22 points 18 hours ago

Yeah, that not nothing but it isn't far off. They have a massive platform. It deserved at least a video telling people about it.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

I deleted my PayPal account a couple of months ago already. Problem solved.

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly I thought all of this was common knowledge at this point, back when I used Honey (many years ago) I saw its affiliate code in the address bar and thought "huh, that's how they make money"

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

I remember researching it a while ago when I was curious how they made money. If anything else, this just illustrated glee little research and care people have with their online information.

[โ€“] [email protected] 35 points 22 hours ago (9 children)

Linus Tech Tips really is scum. Yet more proof of that.

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

OP isn't exactly giving you the full story there. I know for a fact I've seen a video on this. I remember thinking at the time "well duh".

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[โ€“] [email protected] 240 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (24 children)

I said it in another post: if you see a bunch of influencers all suddenly peddling the same stuff, stay away. All of them can be bought.

[โ€“] [email protected] 110 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Or, just don't trust ads period

Do your own research

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Do your own research is the famous last coherent phrase of the QAnon crowd. Idk what the answer is but that phrase will forever make me uneasy.

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

It's also something leftists famously tell each other ยฏ_(ใƒ„)_/ยฏ

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 21 hours ago

Literally just watched that. I agree with his consideration that that's fraud.

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 22 hours ago (6 children)

I have been using PayPal increasingly for online payments. Not sure why. I have heard old stories about PayPal but Honey seems really bad. Its basically a given that any fintech company are going to be dodgy scammers but PayPal seemed almost grown up and respectable. Guess not.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 192 points 1 day ago (14 children)

I never trusted Honey to begin with but this goes far deeper than I ever expected. I always wondered "yeah, but where do they get their money?" I always figured it was just a way to take people's data and sell it to data brokers (which they probably also do, let's be honest) but this is just blatant fraud. Stealing affiliate money from links and having companies pay them to purposefully give out worse coupon codes is just devious through and through. It's basically free money and everybody else, whether influencer or consumer, get fucked over in the process.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 44 points 1 day ago

I thought it was just collecting and selling user data but while I'd bet it's still happening - wow, this is way craftier.

[โ€“] [email protected] 56 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I used honey for a while and it was working great for me with "exclusive" coupons and Cashback and then one time I bough a cellphone that was supposed to have $250 cashback. I did all the necessary steps, read the t&c, took screenshots of the offer and made the purchase. I never got the transaction to appear on their website. Sending emails it trying to contact them was futile (I even made an automatic script to send an email everyday to follow up). Fuck PayPal

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