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PayPal Honey steals affiliate links and lies about finding the best coupons (youtube.com)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/technology
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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€“] spankmonkey 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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 don't have suckers.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

misconstruing something that is clearly a rule about profit making services

To be honest I don't think that's clear at all, it feels like it's more a rule about being skeptical of free stuff online. And many for profit companies have open source projects that can be used safely even though the source is a for-profit.