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.

  • whats_all_this_then@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    I’m down to listen to their response myself but as someone who tried really hard to explain away their last dumb controversy only to be proven wrong multiple times, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was just pure negligence. Actions speak louder than words and their actions have shown they’re a flawed company like any other despite what their conversations on WAN show would have you believe.

    Fuck Honey/PayPal first and foremost, don’t get me wrong. But unless there were legal issues around it, we also can’t ignore it if the biggest tech YouTube channel found out about one of the biggest sponsors on YouTube being a scam, stopped working with them for that reason, but said absolutely nothing to anyone else.

    • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 hour ago

      Linus said they were unaware Honey was being bad for users when they dropped Honey.

      I’m unaware of when Honey was purposely giving users not the best coupons - was that happening at that time?

    • Jin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      23 hours ago

      I saw the wan show and they didn’t know they were affecting viewers, only affecting themselves. They address the problem and moved on. If viewers were affected, they would probably been a bigger deal.

      I still don’t understand why it’s Linus’ job, just because he does “tech”? There are even bigger creators like MKBHD or Mark Rober (has scam videos). They have information now, but will they probably not even address it.