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Re: Honey scandal, this popped up on my front page. Markiplier distrusted Honey from day one, never accepted their sponsor but wasn't sure why he didn't like them. He's reacted to it recently.
 
BoJack Horseman said:
Speaking of Haedox...
Crossposting from the YouTuber Commentary Community thread

I couldn't find many mentions of Haedox on the forum, which is surprising considering his cowish tendencies the last few years.
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I mightve mentioned this but ExoParadigmGamer , a former friend of Haedox, delisted a bunch of podcast eps on his "UnversedCast" channel and let's plays on his "EPG Plays" channel at Haed's request and THEN talked shit about having to do it on one of his other channels "Game Mavericks" (nigga has too many channels but whatevs. I found that pretty cowardly and two faced and what's funny is EPG's ED page is entirely focusin on how years ago he went to back for Haedox and was making little love notes to him at the start and end of his videos
 
The Honey train keeps rolling on. Youtuber/lawyer America's Attorney has teamed up with fellow youtube lawyers Legal Eagle + Attorney Tom to sue Paypal/Honey on behalf of several other youtubers:
 
Northern Blockhead said:
Honey scammed both the consumer and the influencers
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No, Honey only scammed the influencers. That’s why all the shills who took their money are mad and making videos about this. Had they scammed consumers instead, you never would have heard of this and every big YouTuber would still be airing their ads.

If you were a consumer, Honey did exactly what it promised and tested all known coupon codes for you. If anything, they were good for you because they paid you a portion of the affiliate fees, money that would either have gone to a YouTuber or the merchant.

Also, the YouTubers were essentially doing the same thing as Honey. Affiliate links often set cookies, so as long as you bought anything from the merchant before the cookie expired, they still get paid even if you never bought the thing they were shilling or you came to the merchant organically on your own later. The scam exposed video mentions cookies but doesn’t explain that the referrer gets sales long after they “referred” you. I doubt most people expect a portion of a purchase they made going to a random YouTuber whose video they watched a month ago.

The YouTubers are just as scummy as the company and they deserve to be ripped off because they have no shame about exploiting their audience for profit.
 
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I think I stumbled across literal youtube autism. This is Cayden Duggan, who has spent the last 4 years posting 1.6k+ videos of his "Lego movies", animations (with a software I've never seen before, an ID would be cool), vlogs, covers of Pokemon theme songs, and more that I'm too lazy to look through.

Likely not thread worthy but still quite fascinating and a little bit funny.

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The software I mentioned, present in earlier videos.
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quaawaa said:
If you were a consumer, Honey did exactly what it promised and tested all known coupon codes for you. If anything, they were good for you because they paid you a portion of the affiliate fees, money that would either have gone to a YouTuber or the merchant.
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Except, had you watched the video that laid out the entire situation with Honey, you would have noticed that it did not in fact test all known coupon codes for a lot of stores and instead only handed out a certain selection of codes for stores signing up with Honey through their bullshit partnership programme, while withholding codes with a bigger discount from the platform just so the consumer thought they'd be getting the best discount already just because it was through Honey.

On the occasion that stores didn't actually sign up with Honey for this scheme, in the worst case scenario Honey would somehow manage to find discount codes that were never meant for customers but for store personnel themselves, and in the event that such a code no longer worked stores would end up receiving complaints that their discount code which was never meant for them didn't work — but if Honey found it then it should have, right?
 
419 said:
On the occasion that stores didn't actually sign up with Honey for this scheme, in the worst case scenario Honey would somehow manage to find discount codes that were never meant for customers but for store personnel themselves, and in the event that such a code no longer worked stores would end up receiving complaints that their discount code which was never meant for them didn't work — but if Honey found it then it should have, right?
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That’s how literally every coupon site works. The only way Honey would know about an employee-only code is if an employee told them. Most coupon codes are found by scraping newsletters sent out by retailers.

Retailers who want to stop coupon sites use single use coupons or frequently change their promotions.
 
Toolbox said:
Pedos continue to be retarded, more at 11. If the ai was trained on real images, chances are that includes real CP. Thus the 'fake' stuff it produces will still be real enough and should still be illegal. Not to mention, when ai gen gets good enough the images would be nigh indistinguishable to CSAM anyways - not a good box to let open.
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This is a really good argument against making ai cp illegal. I knew in my heart it needed to be, but couldn’t put together how legally it would have merit as it was “victimless.” But your point that there was real CP in the training data makes a case for why its derivative data is tainted. That may be a slippery slope for copyright but I’m fine with a firm stance against this, and we figure out the murky middle later.
 
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