Why is a website, that’s forcing a window pop-up for me to subscribe, asking for a tip?
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Can't order food without accepting to receive "marketing materials"
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Is this a new thing Spotify is doing or has it been doing it for a while
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Every time I try to cancel my car insurance auto-renewal online (on an online-only policy), this comes up
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This frozen burrito requires you to go to their website to view directions on how to cook it in an air fryer
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Adobe Fonts visual search now requires signing in. At the very least you should be able to use it with no requirements a la every over site.
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If you don't give Instagram access to your precise location and your contacts, the app constantly shows full-screen pop-ups asking you to do so so they can "show you personalized content".
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Got duped by a car company I liked until today... These are usually the size on the box...
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Local restaurant has 2 separate fees for customers in the waiting area. Then asks for tip on orders from QR code.
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Amazon Prime $2.5B class action settlements for using dark patterns to trick people into prime subscriptions
Amazon got hit with a $2.5 billion settlement for using dark patterns to trick people into prime sub. If you signed up between 2019-25, you may qualify for up to $51. No proof needed. I'm not sure if I can post the link here, but if you look up $2.5B Amazon prime membership FTC settlement, you should find a form (should take 2min to fill out)
There's this free ios and android app called FreeClaim that I built to track active class action settlement. 81 right now, 18 don't require proof. (Disclosure - I'm the dev, the app is 100% free)
https://redd.it/1tfbuha
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Amazon got hit with a $2.5 billion settlement for using dark patterns to trick people into prime sub. If you signed up between 2019-25, you may qualify for up to $51. No proof needed. I'm not sure if I can post the link here, but if you look up $2.5B Amazon prime membership FTC settlement, you should find a form (should take 2min to fill out)
There's this free ios and android app called FreeClaim that I built to track active class action settlement. 81 right now, 18 don't require proof. (Disclosure - I'm the dev, the app is 100% free)
https://redd.it/1tfbuha
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Adobe Stock started billing me one week before my free-trial end and will charge me 5x monthly fee if I cancel
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YouTube genuinely made ads so fucking intrusive that once you get an ad you can't wipe this shit off your screen. Like you genuinely can't do anything.
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Wiser App Subscription Cancellation Scam — How to ACTUALLY Cancel Your Subscription
Be careful when cancelling a Wiser App (wiserapp.co) subscription on iPhone.
The cancellation process is extremely misleading, especially for users who signed up using Google.
The process starts inside the Wiser app itself. You press the “Cancel Subscription” button, and the app redirects you to start.wiserapp.co. This is where the confusing flow begins.
Since the site doesn’t properly support Google login, it asks for a password you probably never created.
To access your account:
Press “Forgot Password”
Enter the email used for your Google signup
Create a password through the email link
Log into the web portal
Then:
Open subscription settings
Click cancel subscription
Here’s the deceptive part:
After clicking cancel the first time, the interface strongly makes it seem like the subscription has already been cancelled and that the next pages are just an optional feedback survey.
That is NOT true.
Your subscription remains active unless you continue through the survey screens and keep pressing the additional hidden cancellation buttons until you reach the final real confirmation screen.
Only trust it once your account status under “My Account” says “Canceled”.
https://preview.redd.it/9xwcjzpajo1h1.png?width=2288&format=png&auto=webp&s=3f850654fd6b47b836d1aa7b970559d490c249c9
I’m posting this because I almost left thinking it was cancelled when it actually wasn’t.
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Be careful when cancelling a Wiser App (wiserapp.co) subscription on iPhone.
The cancellation process is extremely misleading, especially for users who signed up using Google.
The process starts inside the Wiser app itself. You press the “Cancel Subscription” button, and the app redirects you to start.wiserapp.co. This is where the confusing flow begins.
Since the site doesn’t properly support Google login, it asks for a password you probably never created.
To access your account:
Press “Forgot Password”
Enter the email used for your Google signup
Create a password through the email link
Log into the web portal
Then:
Open subscription settings
Click cancel subscription
Here’s the deceptive part:
After clicking cancel the first time, the interface strongly makes it seem like the subscription has already been cancelled and that the next pages are just an optional feedback survey.
That is NOT true.
Your subscription remains active unless you continue through the survey screens and keep pressing the additional hidden cancellation buttons until you reach the final real confirmation screen.
Only trust it once your account status under “My Account” says “Canceled”.
https://preview.redd.it/9xwcjzpajo1h1.png?width=2288&format=png&auto=webp&s=3f850654fd6b47b836d1aa7b970559d490c249c9
I’m posting this because I almost left thinking it was cancelled when it actually wasn’t.
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HP INSTANT INK Class Action Lawsuit in the Making?
**HP's firmware update permanently shut down my Officejet 4650 printer. Has anyone else experienced this?**
A few weeks ago, I had an HP printer, and it was working fine. I had just finished writing my book, and I began printing it. But halfway-through, the printing mysteriously stopped.
That was odd...
I thought that maybe the internet went out. But no... The internet was working just fine. And then I saw a message on my printer's screen. It said something about an update, and that it might take a few minutes. So I waited a few minutes. But every time I tried to print my book, the same error message kept popping up. ''Cannot Connect to Server'' or something. So I waited some more. And more. And more.
After a few hours of waiting a few minutes, I realized I needed to have a chat with HP customer service. Little did I know what I was getting into... So I had a chat with a nice, blissfully unaware customer care lady that lived in a far away land. She asked me many questions, and made me do all sorts of things to my printer. It lasted well over an hour. In the end she told me I should unplug my router. That would help, she said. But it did not help. Instead, what happened was exactly what I feared, (and told her) would happen: I got disconnected from my chat.
And so, I had to start all over again... And so I tried calling HP again. And again. And again. I spent many hours explaining my situation over and over again to many poor souls across the globe who barely spoke English and didn't have a clue what the company they work for was actually doing. At some point I was told by a manager that the Escalation Department would call me back.
Finally! After all this trouble, I would get closure.
But the Escalation Department never called me back... Instead, I kept receiving mysterious emails saying my cases were being closed.
That was odd. Why were my cases being closed? My printer was not fixed...
Anyhow... By that time I pretty much knew that the problems I was experiencing originated from HP's servers, not my printer.
Then someday, after calling HP for the hundredth time, I managed to get transferred to a technical supervisor. The supervisor spoke pretty good English, which was refreshing, and confirmed that I was not insane. What I was experiencing was indeed related to HP servers, and not my printer itself. He also told me that this was a major priority for HP, and that it would be fixed very soon. All I could do was wait. And so I waited, and tried printing, and waited, and waited, and tried printing.
You get the idea.
After over a week of this annoying pattern, my printer would still not print. So I called HP once more...
I was *not happy at all* by that time, as you might have guessed, having to explain my situation again to low-level customer service people who had no idea about anything I had been through. It was hard to keep my cool, and I might have used some bad words here and there...
But I persevered, and I managed to speak to another HP technical supervisor named Milo. Milo told me he would look into the matter and contact me. Then, a few days later, he got back to me and explained the issue. Milo used a lot of fancy words to tell me that my issue had to do with the **HP Dynamic Security update and the HP plus initiative,** and that I needed to get a new printer.
That did not compute in my brain, and it seemed plainly illegal. I had a printer, HP deactivated it, and now I need to buy a new printer? What?!
So I began to look into all the tools at my disposal. Surely, even a multinational corporation like HP cannot do anything it wants without consequences. Life has thought me that only progressive governments can do whatever they want without any consequences. ( I live in French Canada, believe me, *I know...*)
So I figured I would notify the relevant government agencies about my problems.
But first, I needed more information. So I asked Milo a few questions:
*You mentioned my printer lost synchronization with HP's cloud
**HP's firmware update permanently shut down my Officejet 4650 printer. Has anyone else experienced this?**
A few weeks ago, I had an HP printer, and it was working fine. I had just finished writing my book, and I began printing it. But halfway-through, the printing mysteriously stopped.
That was odd...
I thought that maybe the internet went out. But no... The internet was working just fine. And then I saw a message on my printer's screen. It said something about an update, and that it might take a few minutes. So I waited a few minutes. But every time I tried to print my book, the same error message kept popping up. ''Cannot Connect to Server'' or something. So I waited some more. And more. And more.
After a few hours of waiting a few minutes, I realized I needed to have a chat with HP customer service. Little did I know what I was getting into... So I had a chat with a nice, blissfully unaware customer care lady that lived in a far away land. She asked me many questions, and made me do all sorts of things to my printer. It lasted well over an hour. In the end she told me I should unplug my router. That would help, she said. But it did not help. Instead, what happened was exactly what I feared, (and told her) would happen: I got disconnected from my chat.
And so, I had to start all over again... And so I tried calling HP again. And again. And again. I spent many hours explaining my situation over and over again to many poor souls across the globe who barely spoke English and didn't have a clue what the company they work for was actually doing. At some point I was told by a manager that the Escalation Department would call me back.
Finally! After all this trouble, I would get closure.
But the Escalation Department never called me back... Instead, I kept receiving mysterious emails saying my cases were being closed.
That was odd. Why were my cases being closed? My printer was not fixed...
Anyhow... By that time I pretty much knew that the problems I was experiencing originated from HP's servers, not my printer.
Then someday, after calling HP for the hundredth time, I managed to get transferred to a technical supervisor. The supervisor spoke pretty good English, which was refreshing, and confirmed that I was not insane. What I was experiencing was indeed related to HP servers, and not my printer itself. He also told me that this was a major priority for HP, and that it would be fixed very soon. All I could do was wait. And so I waited, and tried printing, and waited, and waited, and tried printing.
You get the idea.
After over a week of this annoying pattern, my printer would still not print. So I called HP once more...
I was *not happy at all* by that time, as you might have guessed, having to explain my situation again to low-level customer service people who had no idea about anything I had been through. It was hard to keep my cool, and I might have used some bad words here and there...
But I persevered, and I managed to speak to another HP technical supervisor named Milo. Milo told me he would look into the matter and contact me. Then, a few days later, he got back to me and explained the issue. Milo used a lot of fancy words to tell me that my issue had to do with the **HP Dynamic Security update and the HP plus initiative,** and that I needed to get a new printer.
That did not compute in my brain, and it seemed plainly illegal. I had a printer, HP deactivated it, and now I need to buy a new printer? What?!
So I began to look into all the tools at my disposal. Surely, even a multinational corporation like HP cannot do anything it wants without consequences. Life has thought me that only progressive governments can do whatever they want without any consequences. ( I live in French Canada, believe me, *I know...*)
So I figured I would notify the relevant government agencies about my problems.
But first, I needed more information. So I asked Milo a few questions:
*You mentioned my printer lost synchronization with HP's cloud