Linus Gabriel Sebastian & Linus Media Group / Linus Tech Tips - Narcissistic corporate shill YouTuber driving his media empire into the ground. KILL COUNT: 2

[Gutes Zeug 2.0]

The other reason honey is bad is because they work with companies to give you the discount code, so they don't really look for them, they just give you whatever they receive from the company, meaning it won't actually give you a deep discount, just whatever was approved

 

[Kheapathic]

I tend to avoid most plug-ins, especially ones that allege to collate data from all over the web. It's not a trust issue in the sense of "I don't think they're accurate," nor is it a trust issue in the sense of "I don't know what else your plug-in is doing;" but just something about "use my tool, I'll do work for you" makes my spider-sense go off. May have something to do with people having computer issues, even at work, and when they call to say the computer is slow, they have like 3 extra rows of plug-ins and other shit. Maybe just PTSD.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

but just something about "use my tool, I'll do work for you" makes my spider-sense go off.

Anytime something is offered for free that'll save you money, its guaranteed that you're doing something that in fact makes them money anyway. Reviews are still a form of competitive advertising, Coupons are just incentives to close sales, and anything that aims to make the steps "easier" is just trying to break down any reluctance you might have in making a purchase.

The best thing as a consumer you can do is keep those barriers to purchase up, don't go out of your way to make spending money as a consumer easier, because you will succeed.

 

[#lurker]

This has been all over my recs for the last day. It's primarily uncovering scummy business practices by Paypal's Honey coupon extension, but he takes a detour to shit on LTT for figuring out Honey was a scam 2 years ago and never telling anyone.

This is clickbaited to look like the average person is getting screwed, but as a consumer you actually lose nothing (except privacy, but you already don't care about that if you are using these type of extensions). The $35 referral where they only reward you 89c makes it seem like you are being robbed of $34, when in reality you were never seeing that money. You actually gained currency.
Yeah, they are taking revenue from content creators, but why does that concern me? Especially when they themselves are advertising it?

Not that I would ever use this dogshit extension. No amount of coupons will save you as much if you just looked elsewhere for a better deal.

 

[GosuGopher]

Honey-related tangent:
Prior to their acquisition by PayPal (less due to the acquisition itself and more due to the internet being less shit 5-years-ago) they were a decent extension to check when shopping on smaller websites that would tend to net you a slightly larger discount when consooooming stuff you don't need.
The popular replacement since Honey essentially doesn't work anymore is the 'CapitalOne Shopping' extension, it steals even more of your data but provides significant cashback value deals that retards who are really into CC churning waste their lives chasing.

The sort of people who are too risk-adverse to trade stocks or crypto, will spend hours figuring out how to maximize the return of their browser extension cashback ---> Kudos coins ---> airline miles--->store gift cards. So they can brag to their co-worker that they saved an effective 6.785% on their steak dinner at Applebee's.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Yeah, they are taking revenue from content creators, but why does that concern me? Especially when they themselves are advertising it?

To seem to be missing the point, which is that Linus knew about this issue two years ago, but didn't tell any of his peers, the people it does concern, about it.

 

[Nabeshin]

LTT not addressing it created a small drama on their foruns that Linus had to respond to it and downplayed it. I personally don't expect anything to come from it besides an non-apology on WAN Show

 

[Trennschleifer]

LTT not addressing it created a small drama on their foruns that Linus had to respond to it and downplayed it. I personally don't expect anything to come from it besides an non-apology on WAN Show

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Call me petty and give me tophats, but I hope GN will kick Linus even more while he's already down from all the other bullshit he pulls.
Kinda scummy to let your YouTube peers not officially know your findings. It's not like they're not making enough money already, but if you know something is a scam, then in my opinion it should be your duty to call it out, or at least forward your findings to someone who can investigate it even more (Like Coffezilla) and blow that shit up. I hate LinusJewTips.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

Call me petty and give me tophats, but I hope GN will kick Linus even more while he's already down from all the other bullshit he pulls.

Nah, its not petty to hope for content, especially when its more or less the consequence of ones own actions. Considering how thoroughly this story is spreading, as many tubers use affiliate links for a lotta revenue and therefor feel personally offended by this, we'll be hearing a lot more about this before it blows over.

 

[Trennschleifer]

Nah, its not petty to hope for content, especially when its more or less the consequence of ones own actions. Considering how thoroughly this story is spreading, as many tubers use affiliate links for a lotta revenue and therefor feel personally offended by this, we'll be hearing a lot more about this before it blows over.

I would hope so, however, since it "doesn't personally affect" the end-customer besides getting less coupon and vouchers than promised, I'm a bit pessimistic about it spreading as large as I wish it would. It kinda fucks content creators more than the people using it, besides getting their data syphooned as usual, and maybe only getting 10% off instead of 20% off when searching for a coupon themselves.

Anyhow, it's funny watching the LTT-Subreddit be in damage control mode again, with plebbitors arguing that a forum is totally a public place (I mean yes, but what percentage of LTT viewers and others visit the LTT Forum?) and anyone who wanted to know about this could've totally found out so long ago by just checking le hecking wholesome techforum.

Here's some of my cope highlights.

Thread 1:
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Thread 2 (This one is funnier)
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"Guys, he held this obvious scam so accountable, by just dropping them and quietly having a staff member explain it on the hecking forum! That'll show Honey!"



"Noooo, just ignore it and it'll go away!"

And here's my personal highlight.



I dunno man, If I watch a tech channel I kinda assume they would double check twice, and maybe have someone amongst those hundreds of employees who would understand what's going on. What kind of cope is this?

Reddit never fails to deliver

 

[BigGuyOS 6 : Jovial Janny]

Remember Linus has being going round claiming he is MR "consumer advocate man" and "fuck the corpos". It is what got him burned over his backpack and warranted ass raping from Gamer's Nexus.
He seems to always end up with a foot in his mouth. Because he is a preformative "cool CEO". Who is down with the socialism and trannys.
He probably played this down, because not only is it hard to track, gain evidence for and prove to a general audience. But it is "standard industry practice". Meaning if he raised a stink about it. You get blacklisted. It is why he partnered with one of the others who do the same thing.

Why didn't he tell anyone else Honey was fucking them over?

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

Why didn't he tell anyone else Honey was fucking them over?

Exactly this. And if the answer is "Oh he was afraid of being blacklisted by other sponsors" then that is telling enough as is, that you'll let people get fucked over for a dollar. Not to mention, any sponsor who'd blacklist you for revealing some industry partner for engaging in malicious and anticonsumer behavior to this degree is someone who you don't want to be partnered with in the first place.

 

[Nabeshin]

Why didn't he tell anyone else Honey was fucking them over?

While I personally don't know how LTT would address it because it's not the type of video that they do, at least a WAN or Tweet mention of it from Linus would be enough IMO

 

[HanyuuF]

For reference LTT went pretty hard when they called out their former long time sponsor PIA for selling off to a company that had a history of selling the data of it's users.
I can't be fucked to fully refresh myself on this one but it really is sad to see what LTT has become as someone that used to enjoy their slop

 

[skol]

Linus's integrity.

KEK!

 

[TheRaptorJesus]

I'm all for honey switching referral codes, fuck influencers. No skin off my back.

 

[The Great Milenko]

LTT not addressing it created a small drama on their foruns that Linus had to respond to it and downplayed it. I personally don't expect anything to come from it besides an non-apology on WAN Show

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Someone needs to choke Linus for the avatar. He is no Steve Jobs and I would imagine he uses it as a joke, but he deserve the choke.
And of course he downplays it, MegaLad went out of his way to mention that Linus and Crew knew about it but never bothered to bring wider attention to it. One would think this type of material would be right up his alley. Dude's a joke like his "lab."

 

[Flaming Dumpster]

Someone needs to choke Linus for the avatar. He is no Steve Jobs and I would imagine he uses it as a joke, but he deserve the choke.

It's even worse than you realize. On Twitter his display name is "Linus LinusMediaGroup" as a stale reference to that one time Trump said Tim Apple. Probably the Jobs inspired photo is part of that.

 

[Mr.Bucket]

Funny asian man is gone. Heartfelt video done by GN.

 

[#lurker]

To seem to be missing the point, which is that Linus knew about this issue two years ago, but didn't tell any of his peers, the people it does concern, about it.

Linus is a fag, but he owes his fellow contemporaries nothing.