🖕 Fuck PayPal

And fuck Linus Tech Tips for intentionally keeping quiet about this after they found out.

  • CaptPretentious@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    2 days ago

    If only they had some medium to post the information, perhaps a medium that that VAST MAJORITY of their viewers use.

    “But the plans were on display…”

    “On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”

    “That’s the display department.”

    “With a flashlight.”

    “Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”

    “So had the stairs.”

    “But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”

    “Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”

    • whats_all_this_then@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      I knew this was Douglas Adams by the tone but had to look it up to realize it was Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Time for a re-read!

    • JcbAzPx@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      Their complaint was that honey inserted their affiliate cookie even when they didn’t find a coupon code for you. I doubt they knew the full extent of the scam.

      Plus, we don’t know what was in their contract with honey. They could still be subject to a non-disparagement clause.

      • CaptPretentious@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        20 hours ago

        GN doesn’t seem to have a problem holding their sponsors accountable, putting a story together, doing their due diligence, and then letting everybody know.