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  • dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    A lot of creators were tricked into that. The problematic part was that they realized the issue and completely went silent about the issue instead of raising awareness of the scam. Alerting about that fact would have been a great tech tip.

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      2 days ago

      I think they were not aware of the scam that screwed over users at the time, only the one that screwed themselves over

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        Absolutely, that may be important. LTT were only aware of the extension screwing over the creators, not that the customers were also getting screwed.

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          They said they found out at around the same time as all the other creators, so breaking it into a video wouldn’t have mattered for anyone. The people they assumed were affected at the time already knew and were dropping the sponsorships.

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      To play devil’s advocate, LMG is a private business concerned with profit. I would be surprised if there weren’t many other companies well aware of the racket that also kept their mouth shut.

      This doesn’t make their behaviour justifiable in any way, but it does highlight how silly this analogy is when we’re comparing an open source developer of one of the largest projects I could think of to a private media group.

      It’s almost like comparing NBC News to Salvation Army.

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      2 days ago

      Right, and we don’t know why anyone would choose to remain silent if they’re aware of the issue, unless they were paid to sign an NDA.