Well Linux Tech Tips is just a shill at this point

Not heard of the other two

If i go on holiday i cone back i owe my gas 18 quid for nothin

That'll be the standing charge

We all pay that

Certain amount per day + a certain amount per unit

Its rediculous though innit

Well

No, not really

was youtube better before everyone started shilling sponsored products?

Nah

Because energy suppliers have to also maintain the network, and your connection

It's always been shilling

Fuck em its there running costs they should factor it into the electric cost

in the case of a lot of tech channels it was long before the current setup because they were still getting products to review based on big companies sending them shit (effectively sponsoring their channel)

If we nationalised the energy industry (even if we still allowed/promoted private companies being the generators) - and I don't have an ideological objection to it - this is the only time where charging people a daily standing charge would be inappropriate

That's why you don't watch reviews without understanding there is bias there due to them having been sent the product

yeah

Interesting.

Well i havent really thought about it until now

I reckon much of their success is contingent on many people not realising this

you will see people recommending bad products

just dont use YT as your sole source of tech insight

It's something Thunderf00t points out in his sphere

It's one thing to have adverts/sponsors, another when you're within that sphere yourself

he has some good points but i find him insufferable to listen to

By illustration, I don't think peopel watch Dankula and assume Raid Shadow Legends is a great game, and they don't watch Bearing thinking whateverthefuck VPN he's shilling is the best VPN

Thunderf00t? He has his own set of character flaws that makes him like that, and a massive blind spot when it comes to politics

maybe in large part, but they are surely directing traffic to these products or they wouldn't be doing it. that means a lot of people are gullible enough to go download that predatory mobile game (probably kids, much of the time)

Heady mix a-la PeP

Yes

But Bearing isn't an expert on VPNs, you might argue Linus Tech Tips is

It'd be like complaining to the Cinema company that the Volkswagon you bought after seeing an advert for it in the movie trailers wasn't as good as they made out

@Crafty even total biscuit was man enough to admit that being sent product will in tern lead to bias, he even made sure to make this fact open to his viewers and that his viewers should always watch his and many other channels

yeah it kinda became a joke once channels not even tangentially related to the product they're promoting started doing it

Not a joke, if anything easier - it's just advertising at that point and you can disconnect the product from the person's channel promoting it

Its a business at the end of the day. Its all about the benjamins. I would shill a vpn or a crappy game for huge stacks of cash. Most people would

yeah i suppose

I don't think reviewers should be allowed to keep the product once they've done the review, in essence they're not being sent a free gift, but are only providing a service

With all the issues of total biscuit with his politics and stupid behaviour at coxcon, he was consumer first through and through

As long as they make it clear they're being sponsored their shouldn't be an issue