Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam
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Was Honey a legitimate money saving tool? Or just an affiliate marketing scam promoted by some of YouTube's biggest influencers?If you have any inside inform...

🖕 Fuck PayPal

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

  • Retro_unlimited@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    4 days ago

    Linus usually likes to rant about it on the WAN show then they usually make a clip for YouTube, but weird he didn’t do that for honey, maybe he didn’t know how far the scam went.

    • zqps@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      21·
      4 days 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.

    • whats_all_this_then@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      Especially considering he hasn’t been shy about ranting about a lot of things from (insert latest apple thing) to “fucking eggshell”

      • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        non disparagement clause

        Not the level of a non-compete clause but that’s a scummy thing I hope is not legal.

        • JcbAzPx@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          It’s fairly common. As far as legal, that will depend on the jurisdiction and the mood of the judge.