“The biggest scam in YouTube history”

  • Empricorn@feddit.nl
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    6 days ago

    I’m so, so sick of these comments every time some shady shit is uncovered. “How could no one else see this, you’re all so stupid, I knew from the very first ad!”

    Yes yes, you’re mommy’s special little genius, despite conspicuously absent comments from that time…

    • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
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      This really does fall under two umbrella cautions. There’s no such thing as a free lunch, and how are they making money? Suspicion was warranted from day one, especially if it was owned by PayPal.

      Now, there are a lot of smart people on the internet who could have tracked all those messages and figured it out, like ultimately happened. I just wish they’d done it sooner.

    • psud@aussie.zone
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      Loads of people are suspicious of coupon schemes. They look dodgy. It’s no wonder that people come along after one of these schemes turns out to actually be a scam to say “see, I knew these things were bad” with the only evidence being that they never subscribed to it

      Their fault is they claim it was this one specifically