🖕 Fuck PayPal

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

  • pixelscript@lemm.eeEnglish
    241·
    1 day ago

    There is no such thing as a free and benevolent product with an advertising budget.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      17 hours ago

      Free and benevolent maybe not. but genuine and non malicious?

      “What’s your business model?” “we make and sell delicious sandwiches. Customer buys the sandwich for a little mote than it costs to make so we get money for ourselves.” That isn’t a scam.

      • pixelscript@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        16 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?

        • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          16 hours ago

          They have a budget spent on advertising on wikipedia itself, plus the cost of the emails they send out asking for donations.

      • amzd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        34·
        18 hours ago

        Their advertisement budget is collected by guilt tripping Wikipedia users using the lie that the website would cease if they didn’t ”donate”.