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LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey (youtu.be)
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[–] 62 points 2 years ago (9 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.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [+] -8 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Why would being problematic to honey hurt them? If anything, it'd make the other sponsors more confident in their affiliate links. They've burnt plenty of brides with Apple and Nvidia, I don't see why they would be afraid of honey.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Why would publicly burning an advertiser on their channel cause other advertisers to be reluctant to work worth them?

    Could be any reason.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't have a dog in this fight, but just to play devil's advocate the advertisers too could have been losing money and be happy it was brought to light?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    You are ascribing a lot of human reasoning and emotion to corporate entities they they just dont have. Gratitude is not part of their decision making process. Instead, they might attempt to use past behavior to predict future behavior when evaluating an outlet for their marketing budget. They arnt going to prefer an outlet that occasionally burns advertisers, even if the benefited from it once.

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