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The original was posted on /r/linustechtips by /u/BaoZaker on 2024-12-28 16:03:05+00:00.

I feel like I’m going insane reading all these posts about Honey and how MegaLags came out and aimed at LTT with their handling of this situation. The community is drumming up its own “drama” and “controversy” here honestly, just move past this. LTT is a channel for consumers first and foremost, they saw an issue that just affected them as creators and cut ties, what’s so difficult about that to understand? Releasing a whistle blower - esque video about this would’ve been an odd thing to do considering that isn’t the norm for them and they run on a schedule/budget.

Anyways this is an an echo chamber and who cares what I have to say I guess but I feel like this could’ve been largely ignored and now MegaLags will inevitably responded and will for sure continue this BS.

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The original was posted on /r/linustechtips by /u/jmims98 on 2024-12-28 00:50:53+00:00.

When Linus was discussing the YT Shopping discount on WAN, I did some quick math. If Google is kicking in $30 for each backpack up to ~ 17,000, they're going to be dropping just over half a million on this discount. Sounds like Google really wants to promote YT Shopping.

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The original was posted on /r/linustechtips by /u/ContributionSecret on 2024-12-28 03:18:19+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/linustechtips by /u/Marksta on 2024-12-28 00:34:43+00:00.

So Linus just addressed the Honey situation on today's WAN show. To roughly summarize it:

• The Honey affiliate cookie hijacking was common knowledge at the time, including old youtube videos, tweets, and forum posts Linus showed that all discussed this back then.
• LTT had no knowledge of this until the news was brought to their attention.
• The vast majority of other channels doing sponsor spots with Honey dropped them around that same time period LTT did, since this was common knowledge circulating in the internet's news cycle.
• LTT had no obligation to, nor need to, inform anyone of Honey's practices as it was common knowledge. Regardless, LTT did make a post of their own for transparency.
• At the time of LTT dropping Honey, nothing about promo code deal partnerships were known about (or occurring?) so there was no concerns of consumer-directed damage thus there was no need to warn consumers more directly.
• LTT is a victim of Honey's affiliate cookie hijacking, more so back then than now considering how much affiliate revenue was a larger chunk of LTT's revenue at the time.
• KarmaNow had promised they didn't do the same practices at the time, but they can change it at anytime obviously.
• The KarmaNow sponsorship was a 1-time deal (across 4 videos) a long time ago and is not an ongoing sponsor.

Now the more subjective stuff summarized from the WAN show:

• Linus and Luke are utterly confused why the MegaLag video focused in on them.
• They don't know why the video painted them as an 'ongoing' villain that sponsors Honey and Honey-like practices with KarmaNow, considering KarmaNow was also long in the past and not a current sponsor.
• As garbage comments filled the chat, Linus responded to one pinning LTT as the largest channel pushing Honey creating obligation for them to respond. Linus firmly pointed out the little known fact that Mr. Beast dwarfs LTT in size and viewership. By MegaLag's own numbers, and the chart where Mr. Beast literally flies off the screen and up 20 pages past the scale of the graph as he zooms in on LTT at #3. [200 Million LTT views vs. 3 Billion Mr. Beast views]
• Mostly, Linus and Luke sat there wordless unknowing what to say, wondering what this has anything to do with them and why they were singled out. There was nothing more for them to say on the topic. They agreed Honey is bad, they did years ago.

So what is actually going on here? This is a 'multi-year investigation' that just totally missed the plot? Somehow along the way MegaLag didn't notice just how common this knowledge was at the time? That he was reporting on multiple years old news as if it was current, or what? The comments are absolutely full of "We already knew this..." everywhere the video is posted. What's investigative, multi-year investigative, of reporting years old news?

And why is Coffeezilla backing up MegaLag and calling for LTT and others, the victims in this situation, that they're implicated and obligated to warn their viewerbase?

As an investigative youtuber himself, did Coffeezilla not notice the video's blatant misconstruing of the past? The crazy focus on the "LTT is the villain" angle with the "they knew and didn't tell the public" stuff, as MegaLag highlights that LTT actually did tell the public? Or if binary facts misconstrued wasn't obvious enough of a tell, how about the 15x smaller youtuber being the focus of the video? It doesn't take an investigative genius like Coffeezilla to notice the issues with the video, right?

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As seen on the recent Colin and Samir podcast:

I am very excited for this. I'm a big user of Raspberry Pi's, but the fact that USB-C has so many optional power modes, and so many cables and power bricks don't put out the 5V at 5A is extremely frustrating! It's USB-C, I should be able to plug it in with any USB-C cable and power supply that provides enough amps! Or, the same thing goes for the Nintendo Switch! I have had to purchase first party power cables and supplies for both of these products.

USB-C is almost great, but the absolute plague of low-quality cables and power supplies that don't handle all of the modes makes it so frustrating. Having cables that physically connect but don't work is just an objectively terrible experience.

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