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[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

Do people not immediately google "How does X make money" or is that just me?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 minutes ago

No need to do even that. If a simple piece of software becomes a company, it's 99% a scam.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

I didn't Google it. I just figured, if it found me a 10% discount, the vendor would also send Honey some % of what I paid for the product.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago

I’m that cynical i just avoid anything being shilled by a YouTuber. I assume if they’re pushing it this hard it must be nefarious in some way and I spend no more time thinking about it.

I will drop my subs for channels that shill this stuff though once it becomes evident it’s shady.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

They do, but then a trusted "insider" youtuber or podcaster who they have a years long parasocial relationship with "signs off" on the product and the person says to themselves, "X person has integrity and they are very smart, they wouldn't put their name on Y unless they did a lot of homework, so I don't have to."

And life is difficult, complicated and overwhelming, so you can't really blame "normal" folks for putting the faith their put into their tech saavy nephew into these personalities. The influencers should pause though and accept that if they can't enthusiastically describe the reason a thing is actually legitimate, they should refrain from endorsing it.

Fuck PayPal and its related entities and all executives past, present and future. And I guess fuck you too now, Will Ferrell - you cosigned Mel Gibson in whatever the fuck that daddy movie series was and now you're the face of these fucks? The "PayPal mafia" (cringe) literally just bought the US election. I know you need to bankroll a lot of family trips to Sweden, but you got too much obviously dirty money now, Will. Hard to chuckle at your comedies now, and that's a bummer.