fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoYouTuber LegalEagle sues PayPal over 'sleeping leech' Honey extension | TechCrunchtechcrunch.comexternal-linkmessage-square169fedilinkarrow-up1882arrow-down126
arrow-up1856arrow-down1external-linkYouTuber LegalEagle sues PayPal over 'sleeping leech' Honey extension | TechCrunchtechcrunch.comfne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square169fedilink
minus-squareAkasazh@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·2 months agoI’ve never seen an ad for honey, not heard of it’s existence before this video. Ad blocking is the way
minus-squareScrollone@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 months agoHmm ad blocking is not enough, because many YouTubers sponsor Honey inside of their videos. Maybe you also use Sponsorblock.
minus-squareEngineerGaming@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoI use Sponsorblock, but still hear ads sometimes because it’s not applied to downloads.
minus-squareAkasazh@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 months agoNo I didn’t use sponsor block, I often manually skip sponsored sections. But none of the channels I follow shill for honey, apparently, and that’s a big plus.
I’ve never seen an ad for honey, not heard of it’s existence before this video.
Ad blocking is the way
Hmm ad blocking is not enough, because many YouTubers sponsor Honey inside of their videos. Maybe you also use Sponsorblock.
I use Sponsorblock, but still hear ads sometimes because it’s not applied to downloads.
No I didn’t use sponsor block, I often manually skip sponsored sections.
But none of the channels I follow shill for honey, apparently, and that’s a big plus.