๐ Fuck PayPal
And fuck Linus Tech Tips for intentionally keeping quiet about this after they found out.
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.
Okay, all of these customer reviews loved this product!
Weird how formulaic they sounded though.
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.
How long are we going to let the far right keep stealing our words? Itโs a proud respectable cryptocurrency term.
Am I the only one who, upon seeing his videos for the first time, immediately thought he was an annoying little pinhead?
Like, Iโve watched his channel(s) surge in popularity over the years, and this entire time Iโve just been wondering why, and the issues that have come out about his little empire since have only confirmed my initial prejudice.
Their entire video is an ad filled experience of shilling not only their sponsors but themselves. Incredibly obnoxious and cramming in every YouTube stereotype from begging for likes and subs to clickbait titles and then insisting they have to do it so they can have their cake and eat it makes them even more obnoxious than if they just did it without wanting to be forgiven for it.
They event have the stupid thumbnail stereotype
Soviet Womble expressed the feeling I have against channels like that very nicely: 7:56, in case link with timer doesnโt work
Because of his name, I thought he was a pro-Linux channel. I was swiftly disappointed.
What annoys me the most is since his last drama, Linus HAS to be the face in every video now! Wtf it used to be a bunch of them took turns making videos, and it was fun seeing everyone work on different things. He has to be front and get all the attention, it just feels weird now.
I never trusted Honey to begin with but this goes far deeper than I ever expected. I always wondered โyeah, but where do they get their money?โ I always figured it was just a way to take peopleโs data and sell it to data brokers (which they probably also do, letโs 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. Itโs basically free money and everybody else, whether influencer or consumer, get fucked over in the process.
Yeah I always wondered what the catch was? The CEO was always posting on Reddit trying to defend honey and how cool they were.
Either way, I never trust any shopping deal plugins. The whole idea of them is sketchy.
Only shopping plugin I use is the one that comes with Edge. Surprisingly good to track price history and find other sites selling the product. I considered some Chrome plugin that displays an Amazon productโs country of origin to avoid Chinesium but apparently it didnโt work well or something like that from reading the reviews. Had some attached rewards function for shopping with it, ick.
Itโs funny how Edge got lambasted for it when they introduced that feature, but itโs legitimately super helpful and non-invasive.
I use this extension to get a general idea of whether a product usually goes for cheaper and whether or not to wait. Really conveniently on the Amazon page directly.
I always assumed it was a combination of your guess and companies giving Honey special coupon codes so consumers are more eager to spend.
โHey Honey, weโll give you 1% commission if you just host this HONEY5 coupon for 5% off.โ
That was my impression when I used it once. Wasnโt worth having an extension just for a slight discount. Love when a company doesnโt fulfill the service they advertise.
If youโre sitting at a poker table and you canโt tell who the sucker is, itโs you.
Alternately, if you look at an online service and canโt tell what the product is, Itโs you.
And even if you can tell what the product is, itโs still often you. โPremiumโ subscriptions for example might hide (some) ads, but services still collect as much data about you. Even grocery stores where the offer seems obvious are trying to bait you into installing their apps to collect data on top of charging you for every item. And sure itโs not relevant in this case, but itโs something we should never forget.
Yeah, I feel like thatโs usually a very accurate saying, but it doesnโt really work with a lot of open source projects.
I hate that youโre getting downvoted by so many people who donโt realize youโre pointing out an exception to the rule, and instead think you have some fundamental misunderstanding about how Linux works.
They are getting downvoted for misconstruing something that is clearly a rule about profit making services and applying it to crowd sourced non-profit open source projects.
Truly open source projects donโt have suckers.
Itโs difficult for others to take advantage of you when you can learn what the software actually does and have it modified to work another way.
Linux (for the most part) is open source but Iโd argue the inclusion of any proprietary software/firmware/drivers means something ultimately isnโt.
I think the issue was with the original commenterโs phrasing. Facebook looks like a product. But the commenter meant โHow the product is being fundedโ.
Of course, it gets hard when thereโs multiple sources of revenue. You used to be able to spot ads and come to the conclusion that that was everything. Now an ad is just the tip of the iceberg.
A useful question to ask when hearing about a new company is โWhatโs your business model?โ
There is no such thing as a free and benevolent product with an advertising budget.
Free and benevolent maybe not. but genuine and non malicious?
โWhatโs your business model?โ โwe make and sell delicious sandwiches. Customer buys the sandwich for a little mote than it costs to make so we get money for ourselves.โ That isnโt a scam.
Correct. Itโs not a scam. Because itโs not free. The sandwich had a price posted, you paid it, you received the product. Valid business model.
What would you think instead if you saw a NYT front page ad taken out for Free Sandwich Mart, the all-you-can-eat totally free sandwich emporium?
Or in this case, a free browser extension that paid to sponsor five thousand YouTube videos that promises to help you pay less money to every store you activate it on at no cost to you?
Their advertisement budget is collected by guilt tripping Wikipedia users using the lie that the website would cease if they didnโt โdonateโ.
Ever since it was explained that Mr. Beast only smiles with his mouth, I get skeeved out every time I see him.
Mr Beast literally shadow banned the word teeth from his YT comments. Itโs hilarious.
