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  • Back then it wasn’t known to be scamming its users, only creators.

    Absolutely nobody disputes that. But that’s not the criticism of them. It’s their excuse instead.

    Which was also Linus reasoning for why they didn’t make a huge deal out of it because if they told the audience „btw, that thing that saves you money costs us money, so would you be so kind as to not use it so we can make more money instead“, they would have been the assholes back then.

    That is pure gaslighting. They could have easily said:

    We recently learned that one of our sponsors turned out to be stealing affiliate revenue from creators and as a result we are dropping them as a sponsor and making this video to spread the news. That said if you still find it useful, you can keep using it to save money when shopping.

    They would have been praised by their audience, consumers and creators.