30000th poster gets a cookie (cookie thread (Part 7)) (Part 10)

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#28556

In rainbows and that one Justin Bieber album

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#28557

Songs about Jane

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#28558

Idk u pick the forth one i want the aliens to feel cosmic dread

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#28559

watching the honey exposés for the first time and WOW this was worse than i thought. glad in this case i had enough built-in skepticism for the claims to never install lol

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#28560

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#28561

weren’t those like mostly debunked or something

#28562

i dont use it either way but iirc a bunch of the claims against them ended up being untrue or somethin

#28563

we’re gonna kill you

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#28564

what do i get from taco bell quick

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#28565

Taco

#28566

Only 1 taco ur on a diet

#28567

do you have a source? because on the one side there’s a billion dollar profit motivated company whose business model doesn’t make money on its face and the other side we have a much smaller youtuber claiming they’re doing a lot of shady shit to make money

(edit: I felt I should clarify that PayPal owns Honey now, and PayPal does have a business model that makes sense because there are face-up transaction fees at times. Honey was purchased by them for $4 billion despite claiming to be a browser extension that merely finds coupons for users.)

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#28568

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#28569

Reading up on this and got jumpscared by this citation at the end of a law journal article

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#28570

Incredible find.

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#28571

(FTR although I believe Honey is almost certainly doing shady things to make money, the YouTubers also have great profit incentive to make as big a deal of the accusations as possible so they’re hardly an unbiased source either)

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#28572

EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY:

LATINA TRADWIFE versus PAYPAL HOLDINGS

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#28573

Oh sure. It’s always good be skeptical and wary of sensationalization, but when you have a product that, on its face, does not make money and would seemingly cost businesses money, it does beg the question: how do they make money? When that answer is affiliate link injection, selling user data, and creating an incentive structure for businesses to create a relationship with them that also siphons away money, all things that are not hard to believe and in fact other companies do or have been caught doing paired with an outrageous evaluation, I am going to be skeptical when someone says it’s been “mostly debunked”. YouTubers generally cannot throw around millions willy nilly. PayPal can especially if they want to try to do damage control for the brand they paid $4 billion for.

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#28574

apparently a “part 2” video dropped a week ago so maybe that’s more substantiated now but my memory is that a lot of the initial accusations ended up being overblown or incorrect

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#28575

aint heard about this in many months so i am deffo not up to date

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