🖕 Fuck PayPal

And fuck Linus Tech Tips for intentionally keeping quiet about this after they found out.

      • snooggums
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        42 days ago

        They have a budget spent on advertising on wikipedia itself, plus the cost of the emails they send out asking for donations.

        • @pixelscript@lemm.ee
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          112 hours ago

          Does it even count if you’re advertising on your own platform? If I’m able to see the “ads” in the first place, I’m already using it.

          I also wouldn’t exactly call a donation drive “advertising” either. They’re not trying to onboard more users to the service, they’re nagging people who already use the service to give them money. Which is itself leaning a bit on the wall of what is and isn’t “free”.

          • snooggums
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            112 hours ago

            Does it even count if you’re advertising on your own platform?

            YES

    • @amzd@lemmy.world
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      -12 days ago

      Their advertisement budget is collected by guilt tripping Wikipedia users using the lie that the website would cease if they didn’t ”donate”.

      • snooggums
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        52 days ago

        Yes, their method of advertising/fundraising is atrocious. They still have an advertising budget and their product is benevolent and free.