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While it is no secret that exploitative practices are interlaced with capitalistic tendencies, the practices are becoming intolerable. Signing up to pay usually takes only two clicks that are prominently visible whereas cancelation options are hidden away in deep settings requiring multiple clicks. Pricing often feel arbitrary with no reference points. Every large company grows with the intention of exhibiting monopolistic behavior. This is not sustainable and should not be tolerated.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

We don't need a shitty youtuber to tell us what we've known for years?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

I had one subscription where cancellation was not only buried in a bunker somewhere in the deepest pits of their website, but once you found the magical incantation to get through it the next step was to send them an email requesting a cancellation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

You can't cancel T-Mobile on their site, they require you to call. Even then I got no email verification nor letter about the cancellation. Cool...

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Free money has dried up, so competition is drying up a bit too. And without free money, the big guys are feeling some squeeze and now want to extract the rent they always planned to eventually extract.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

It’s happening everywhere, totally unchecked.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This is actually good. There’s finally more room for good services offered by smaller companies that care about users.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

This would require the possibility of competition, which is generally forbidden widely due to lobbying, the consequential weakening of antitrust laws, and the follow-on massive consolidation on a scale that history has never seen before.

Maybe in theory but not in 2024. You’re only allowed to compete until you moon a giant, then you’re screwed.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Bless your heart

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Windows 11 is rife with it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why do I have to tell my computer several time per week that I do not wish to let the X box app make changes to my computer?? I've never had anything to do with an X box. Oh, now you're going to make my computer unusably slow unless I update and.. what's that.. ? I can't fucking update unless I ALLOW X BOX APP TO MAKE CHANGES TO MY COMPUTER??? Fuck you windows 11.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like it’s not your computer.

To be clear, I do believe it is your computer, but it sure sounds like it isn’t.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/wVYG1mu8Lg8?si=13cDtDHuKSG3uLSA

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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