Comment on Exposing Honey's Evil Business Model

BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• infeeeee@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You can’t expect a random non tech youtuber to review the code of a browser addon, and paypal just simply lied to them. Of course it lowers the even low reputation of tech channels like ltt and mkbhd, I would expect that they have at least someone in their team with a basic front end knowledge. But again, paypal is a big, old, trusted name (at least it’s used to be), it paid them good money why would they expect it’s a scam?

  My most important takes:

  • people don’t understand what browser addons can do
  • if a product is heavily advertised by youtubers/influencers it’s probably a scam. Exhibit b: vpns

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  • IronKrill@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    How does it lower the rep of LTT? They dropped Honey years ago after they realised how it works.

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