Reddit blocking free users after 1 minute of scrolling with an unremovable popup.
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Dolly Parton's claims it has no high fructose corn syrup, has corn syrup
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I cant use MY camera on MY phone because of age verification bullshit?
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Opal lets you subscribe in seconds. Cancelling took me 30 minutes, 2 devices, Stripe, RevenueCat and an AI chatbot.
I just wanted to try Opal. I started their 3-day Pro trial directly from their website on my Mac. Entered my card, subscribed, done. Super easy.
Then I tried to actually access what I had just paid for.
The website showed an “Open App & Redeem” button. I clicked it on my Mac. Nothing happened.
At this point, they had my card and a subscription that would automatically charge me in 3 days, but I had no properly connected account and no obvious place to manage or cancel it.
Thank FUCK I hadn’t closed the original browser tab.
Here’s what I eventually had to do:
1. Inspect/copy the redemption URL from my Mac
2. Send it to my iPhone
3. Download the Opal app
4. Create an account on my phone
5. Open the redemption URL manually on my phone
6. Finally get the subscription connected to my account
7. Contact their AI support to figure out how to cancel
8. Get sent to a Stripe customer portal
9. Discover there was NO cancellation option there
10. Ask the AI again
11. Get a completely different RevenueCat link
12. Finally cancel the subscription
It took me roughly 30 fucking minutes to cancel a trial that took seconds to start.
And I’m very comfortable with tech. What the fuck is a normal person supposed to do here?
If I had simply closed that original browser tab after subscribing, I genuinely don’t know how I would have found my way through this mess before the trial renewed.
Maybe this is just an unbelievably broken subscription flow. Maybe making cancellation this difficult happens to be great for conversions. Either way, this is exactly the kind of hostile UX that deserves to be called out.
Making the Subscribe button effortless while turning Cancel into a fucking treasure hunt across two devices, an AI chatbot, Stripe and RevenueCat is asshole design.
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I just wanted to try Opal. I started their 3-day Pro trial directly from their website on my Mac. Entered my card, subscribed, done. Super easy.
Then I tried to actually access what I had just paid for.
The website showed an “Open App & Redeem” button. I clicked it on my Mac. Nothing happened.
At this point, they had my card and a subscription that would automatically charge me in 3 days, but I had no properly connected account and no obvious place to manage or cancel it.
Thank FUCK I hadn’t closed the original browser tab.
Here’s what I eventually had to do:
1. Inspect/copy the redemption URL from my Mac
2. Send it to my iPhone
3. Download the Opal app
4. Create an account on my phone
5. Open the redemption URL manually on my phone
6. Finally get the subscription connected to my account
7. Contact their AI support to figure out how to cancel
8. Get sent to a Stripe customer portal
9. Discover there was NO cancellation option there
10. Ask the AI again
11. Get a completely different RevenueCat link
12. Finally cancel the subscription
It took me roughly 30 fucking minutes to cancel a trial that took seconds to start.
And I’m very comfortable with tech. What the fuck is a normal person supposed to do here?
If I had simply closed that original browser tab after subscribing, I genuinely don’t know how I would have found my way through this mess before the trial renewed.
Maybe this is just an unbelievably broken subscription flow. Maybe making cancellation this difficult happens to be great for conversions. Either way, this is exactly the kind of hostile UX that deserves to be called out.
Making the Subscribe button effortless while turning Cancel into a fucking treasure hunt across two devices, an AI chatbot, Stripe and RevenueCat is asshole design.
https://preview.redd.it/kf914u2ie3kh1.png?width=1198&format=png&auto=webp&s=05eca9f21a5f36bc2f10854390f67da5c05c910a
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Anyone else notice these "spend limit" dark patterns in AI/API products?
Been digging into how usage limits work on some AI platforms and found something that feels pretty sketchy:
1. Default monthly spend limit used to be $0, hit your usage cap and you just wait for the reset (4hrs/weekly).
2. They added a "monthly spend limit" feature so you could opt in to pay for extra usage instead of waiting.
3. Then they rolled me into a promo: 2x usage + $100 "free" credit, both prominently shown right on the usage tracking screen.
4. To make that credit spendable, they also silently bumped my monthly spend limit from $0 to $2,000 (!!!). That part wasn't shown anywhere near as prominently, if a reasonable person glancing at the screen wouldn't catch it, it shouldn't be buried in fine print.
I only noticed after burning through $17 of the "free" $100, when I went looking for why it said I was drawing on "API spend."
I've since seen a few posts on FB/Reddit from people with surprise charges in the $40 to $50 range, adding up to $2k+, because they assumed they were still capped at $0 like before.
Anyone else run into this? Curious if silently bumping spend limits during a promo is common practice, or if this is an especially bad case.
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Been digging into how usage limits work on some AI platforms and found something that feels pretty sketchy:
1. Default monthly spend limit used to be $0, hit your usage cap and you just wait for the reset (4hrs/weekly).
2. They added a "monthly spend limit" feature so you could opt in to pay for extra usage instead of waiting.
3. Then they rolled me into a promo: 2x usage + $100 "free" credit, both prominently shown right on the usage tracking screen.
4. To make that credit spendable, they also silently bumped my monthly spend limit from $0 to $2,000 (!!!). That part wasn't shown anywhere near as prominently, if a reasonable person glancing at the screen wouldn't catch it, it shouldn't be buried in fine print.
I only noticed after burning through $17 of the "free" $100, when I went looking for why it said I was drawing on "API spend."
I've since seen a few posts on FB/Reddit from people with surprise charges in the $40 to $50 range, adding up to $2k+, because they assumed they were still capped at $0 like before.
Anyone else run into this? Curious if silently bumping spend limits during a promo is common practice, or if this is an especially bad case.
https://redd.it/1vscchi
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Meta forces you to use WhatsApp instead of SMS/MMS like literally every service on earth
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Reddit no longer shows the most subbed community when you search for it
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The up and down buttons on the front of my roller door are actually to adjust the roller force and limits. The actual button to activate the door is that small unlabelled button on the bottom.
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