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ProperCauldron posted:When you go to big stores like Target or Home Depot and suddenly your phone internet no longer works. Like god forbid you want to research products n prices, check out market. I deserve a reward for walking into your store, instead I get a punishment. Pretty evil I gotta say. Going to restaurants or cafes where you need to scan a QR code to get to their online menu because there's no physical menu to look at, but you can't get a connection and they haven't thought about having open wifi. Edit: even better when it's a chain place that want you to go through a whole signup process to order and pay on your phone while you're sitting at the table (or install and verify through their app), but there's no guest checkout so you have to go through an elaborate login and email verification process if you want to do it. And all with a lovely connection. Danger - Octopus! fucked around with this message at 12:35 on Nov 2, 2023 |
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PhazonLink posted:like im lucky i live near a cellphone store, but what happens if or when a phone breaks? apparently most people take a few days to get a replacement so several days they cant do stuff. including MFA codes? I look like a boomer carrying a printout of travel tickets and passes when I go on holiday but otoh more than one friend has had a phone lose charge/get stolen when they're using it for all their tickets and passes. So I'm happy to be a boomer in that respect.
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Using facebook and some of the suggested reels are straight up softcore fetish content from instagram. Which is fine and it's not something I'm opposed to, but it's clearly picked up some suggested content from whatever tracking on other sites I visit since it's not related to anything I look or follow on FB. But there isn't any way to directly force new content topics in the promoted reels - you can't tick a box somewhere to say "I just want to see cats/cool stunts/videogame stuff in reels". You just have to hope some of those topics start coming up so you can click on them and then it'll start showing more, as far as I can tell. Which just means I'm less likely to use facebook because if I'm browsing FB around other people, whether people I know or on public transport, I obviously don't want fetish stuff to scroll through and since you can't stop it promoting reels to you, welp. If you could choose what content you saw in the reels, I'd be more likely to use it even if that content was ads because they might be relevant or interesting. Also youtube adding stuff to your history if you accidentally mouseover a promoted thumbnail so it plays for a second or two in the thumbnail. At this point I'm more likely to use adblockers/rip stuff because if my history has stuff I didn't watch in it, I'm certainly not going to trust youtube to give subscription revenue to the creators I've actually watched rather than ones it promotes and I don't want to watch.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:It's really not that different from the Rent-To-Own businesses, because with those the "Own" part was only theoretical. They work on the payday loan business model, just with a product in the middle. Rent out a couch, 90% of people will never actually make the principal or interest payments in full, so they either get the product repossessed, it end up paying forever and spending $60k on a $500 TV. I did some courses about personal finance stuff back in the late 00s, and the guy running them was a financial adviser who'd been in the industry for decades. One thing that stuck with me was that he said there'd been a big effort to raise awareness here in the UK for some years that those kind of rent-to-own/hire-purchase schemes were never, ever good value and to not trust them. And it had been working really well and they were starting to become much less common, except then the companies realised that people were actually really dumb so they just changed the way they described the arrangement and people immediately somehow missed that it was the exact same kind of scheme they knew was bad, and they became popular again. I can't remember what the actual change in wording was, but you'd straight up have people telling someone trying to help them with debts that they knew that kind of payment scheme was bad so they avoided it, but would be paying for multiple items using that very payment scheme under a different branding.
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