• Barbecue Cowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    12 hours ago

    I do kinda love how it became evil as soon as YouTubers figured out that it affected them negatively. Maybe a dick move on honeys part but none of the stuff honey does was ever a secret or hidden in any way.

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      10 hours ago

      You can’t expect a random non tech youtuber to review the code of a browser addon, and paypal just simply lied to them. Of course it lowers the even low reputation of tech channels like ltt and mkbhd, I would expect that they have at least someone in their team with a basic front end knowledge. But again, paypal is a big, old, trusted name (at least it’s used to be), it paid them good money why would they expect it’s a scam?

      My most important takes:

      • people don’t understand what browser addons can do
      • if a product is heavily advertised by youtubers/influencers it’s probably a scam. Exhibit b: vpns