🖕 Fuck PayPal

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

  • pixelscript@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    14 hours ago

    Correct. It’s not a scam. Because it’s not free. The sandwich had a price posted, you paid it, you received the product. Valid business model.

    What would you think instead if you saw a NYT front page ad taken out for Free Sandwich Mart, the all-you-can-eat totally free sandwich emporium?

    Or in this case, a free browser extension that paid to sponsor five thousand YouTube videos that promises to help you pay less money to every store you activate it on at no cost to you?

    • Captain Aggravated
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      13 hours ago

      Yes. Which is why, when you see a novel service being advertised, it is a useful exercise to ask of them “What is your business model?”