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[–] [email protected] 275 points 2 weeks ago (63 children)

Hell yeah. Huge respect to him and the other youtuber that exposed this, it's crazy that Honey just pocketing most of the referral money has been undiscovered for so many years.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 2 weeks ago (25 children)

There is a YouTube video that literaly said they were scamming from 2020.

Linus tech tips figure it out a year back and stop shilling it once they figured it out but for some reason didn't make a video about it?

[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 weeks ago (17 children)

They didn't make a video about it because they thought it was a problem for creators, not a problem for consumers. They may have communicated to creators separately to drop honey. They talked about it publicly once they found out honey was also lying to consumers about what they did.

[–] DasAlbatross 62 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

They didn't say anything because they're not pro consumer, they're pro linus media group. They didn't want to appear to be unfriendly to advertisers. There's a reason tech jesus was able to do a big expose on how crap their videos are. They want to churn out content and make money. Being seen as a problematic channel for advertisers doesn't help that.

[–] runjun 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

lol certain criticisms of LTT are quite funny to me. They literally were “unfriendly to advertisers” with Anker. They’ve done it several times in the past. The “tech Jesus” video you’re referring to caused them to pause production and they haven’t ever returned to a video every day since that came out. 🤷‍♂️ you can just not like their videos, it’s ok.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

There’s probably some overlap between people calling for more social responsibility and people who thought some earlier behaviour from LTT was not ok.

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