The Internet is starting to Break - Here's Why. 

That's deep..

Oh wow!!

get this man to the top! 🔥💯

When buying is renting then piracy is borrowing :D

Dude. Couldn't be said better

Real

100% 👍👊

Agreed

Arrgh!

True

Bruh.

i have uber driver installed, It is literally not worth it to drive somebody to any longer trip then 2miles. Trip longer then that is just a loss for the driver.

i once had one get to my pickup location to not even stop, turn around and cancel the job. actually made me late to work that day

@@jayyh_01 use regular taxis, uber is a scam. Drivers are exploited

Happened to me at the airport, so much less stressful and easier to find replacement, but I hate that I had no ability to do anything about it

You have every movie ever made on the internet for free

This is why I just bought a DVD player and started collecting DVDs again

@@nunocarneiro464 yaaaaaar

can probly find that old film in charity for £1-2 and keep it forever.

I eat the cotton candy from my walls

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Fr these thugs *need* to be exposed

fr and I appreciate that

Well it won't be recommended on RU-vid and shown easily. All those apps are the exact thing he's talking about haha

I only found this because someone mentioned it on Twitter.

literally every company that exists, exists to make a profit. No company out there provides a service for free. That's basic economics

@@rodrigojds Its true that companies exist to make a profit, but unfortunately its also their job to maintain their trust with customers. Just because your company needs to make profit, doesnt mean they can exploit workers or piss their userbase which makes them lose customers. Its really not an excuse to resort to unethical practices, and not be transparent in communication. Of course no one offers a service for free, but charging more for less perks will definately push away customers. Look at Disneyland and Cable TV. You pay more for the former and you get less benefits than you did. The latter, you initially pay for no commercials at a fair price and now you pay at least 200 dollars with commercials

​@@rodrigojdsAnd that's why it's called "business", not "charity"

@@DavidHutchinson0713 exactly. Would you give your phone away for free? No. So why would companies do that?

@@rodrigojds I understand companies need to make money, but its their job to make sure the changes they make do not hurt their customers and tarnish their reputation. Just because companies need to profit doesnt mean they can take away people's games, charge more for less perks, mistreat employees, or go against their company's foundation No company is going to give a free service for obvious reasons, but companies shouldnt be surprise that people are angry at them for valid reasons and turn away from them. Yes, no company gives you a free phone, but at least not all of them make it difficult to repair your phone or overcharge for repairs for the sake of profit Not all companies give you games for free, but not all companies give poor experiences with shady DRM, buggy unfinished graphics and gameplay, barebones plot, and main story content locked behind a paywall, all while being priced at $70. Even worse, these companies are able to revoke access to your games because of a legal loophole. The same can be said for streaming services where you used to be able to watch Cartoon Network shows on HBO, and now most of them are completely wiped I understand businesses need to make money, but there is a fine difference between needing to turn a profit and just being a greedy company. If needing to turn a profit requires screwing with the trust of the community, running scams, losing trust of investors, and introducing unethical practices, despite still being a sucessful company, then thats problematic In most cases, you can find another product or buy a good indie game if you dont like whatever the company sells, hell you can leave a review. But in some cases such as RU-vid's treatment towards content creators and Comcast's attitude towards cable television, there is no choice. They are relatively successful companies and financially stable, yet they demand more money. I understand employees need to be paid, maintainence needs money, electricity needs money, etc, but clearly corporate greed runs rampant. Many silicon valley companies layoff hundreds and thousands of employees and some form Unions and protest due to unfair working conditions. So unless if companies are transparent with whats happening, then they shouldnt be surprised people dont like them

Pirating adobe products is morally right

​@@domacihlebac5739and so is pirating nintendo games

Yt revanced for everyone who hates ads, sponsored content etc

The answer is not piracy but doing another thing. Better than wasted time on pirated content. Pirating content is for junkie of content.

If you act immorally towards someone who is immoral. That makes your action moral. It's easy as that. You can hate it, but you can't deny it.

what would say if tell you if paying 35ish dollars on designing softwares for my work and hobby?

Are you a bot?

Shouldn't you have known how much you were paying from the start though? That's your fault.

@@equivalentexchangeisalie5726 How many subscriptions are there to even add up to $280? Are they paying for Starz? Lmao

@@hamzajaveed841Personally, I use the free software, make the company pay, or pay the one-time lifetime payment option. If all else fails I'll either go traditional techniques or reluctantly pay the price

We have a republican party that blocks or stops any kind of laws protecting consumers from predatory business practices

Thats because the overall content is shifting to become more authentic and genuine. Most people become famous for being themselves and the oversaturated MrBeast effect is slowly retired. Even MrBeast toned down his smile on the thumbnail

@@bumblebeegamerrealhaha…I actually checked after reading your comment and yea his recent thumbnails do not have the same trend of smile as his older vids…..still averages 150 mil views tho

@@hityouwiththatdduddudu I mean MrBeast religiously studies the algorithm unsurprisingly

me too!

And yet this video was basically a massive plug for SurfShark VPN which is yet another subscription based service 😂🤦🏼‍♂️

Same!!!

How do you guys forget such thing?!?!

@@dicekolev5360 Not bookkeeping + being too rich, I guess. 😁

@@dicekolev5360goes to show that predatory practices those scum companies do actually works

@@dicekolev5360 nowadays people are really busy, you just cant assume everyone lives the same life as you, maybe the person has a job to work and a family to feed and they had just forgotten it, it is only part of human nature. or maybe their family had subscribed and they had just remembered to cancel it now. I had also thought how people could forget such a thing until it happened to me.

This has some real merit to it! I'd love to see what other people who have more knowledge than me have to say about it. If anyone knows. could there be any unforeseen detriments to a system like this?

By now there are younger generations who never experienced that there used to not be a subscription for all these things and not even question it.

💯

Exactly !

That's really sad tbh

Honestly might still be better than the NHS at this point.

​@@caasieu at least the nhs is free, if you want better service, there is still private healthcare

"they eventually give up"....i have news for you they never gave up, in fact "pirating side" has been loosing ground heavily for the last 15 years. Today's much harder to find pirated products than it was 15-20 years ago

​​@@theghostofbabanovac7069what??? I live in a third world nation where I remember Quake 1 literally meant a month paycheck from my parents... In 2001. Now with the internet, I screw over so many big corps and made a small business from bootleg CDs it's not even funny, God bless the internet. It made me even realise religion is bullshit, can you imagine that???!!!

Let's find out... Time to start the cycle again!

@@lindsaytoles2023 I'm having hope that one of these days, hopefully when I'm gray and decaying so as to witness it, big corporations will make one last slip, and people turn to localised merchant guilds except with internet. We really only need the word of mouth to go around enough, but I bet someone will come and call me a communist. I don't even believe we were made equal in luck and fortune. But some douche having a mega yacht chaffs my ass like old school jeans.

@@theghostofbabanovac7069 Pirating has been losing ground? I mean, it could be but I hiiiiighly doubt it. Have you heard of say, Nordvpn.

Recent college grad?

If I want VPN I'll pay for my own linux VPS box and setup my own vpn with open source software. those specialized vpn companies are shady.

He needs to make money too, I don't see any problem with it. He isn't hiding anything

@@lycanbane2070 And all the companies he is ragging on are doing same - how is it different?

Me too! I won't ever subscribe to prime when I have the chance to collect things swiftly from shops close to my house

Of course. 🤕

I cancelled my subscription to Prime and I still get all the same delivery options, including "Prime Free". I honestly don't see the difference.

@@lakojake4215 until the end of the month, Bro

same lmao, i rarely use Amazon so i don't mind using the slow option that comes next month if needed.

Yes. All these internet companies are more a less scam. Airbnb is one of the worst companies, they allso willing rent out ur place to be used as a sex hotel or to sell drugs, airbnb do not care.

Not only that, but if you price a product too low for its market price it might look as less reputable, people might think it’s too good to be true thus recurring to other options.

I dont get it. How can AirBNB not want low prices, sure they get to take more from your teacher but Airbnb is competing w hotels at the same time.

@@franciscosousa5913the only reason that is, is because everyone overprices. If people started normalizing a fair price, that problem wouldn’t exist. It’s one of those things that get worse the more people follow it. Fair prices should not be met with skepticism, it’s a symptom of the current market that will implode on itself. Nothing is priced to low these days, it’s either super overvalued or just a little overvalued but since every company and industry is doing the same, no one can just go elsewhere. Air BNB prices are absolutely insane. They used to compete with hotels but damn if hotels aren’t half price or even a third of the price of similar air bnbs

Before it was a no brainer to use Airbnb, nowadays it really depends on the location. Sometimes hotels offer a better price. Especially for flats that are only used for sleeping

Starbucks tried to break into the Australian market and failed dismally, thank goodness. There’s still a few stores around, that cater mostly to tourists, but it warms my cold and shrivelled heart that Australia said no to Starbucks.

@@ohffsnoway Lol irony is lots of Australian cafes (except 7-11) are selling coffees at ridiculous prices. And your government is encouraging people to return to the office/city regularly to support these businesses lol. Thank goodness we prefer to WFH and prepare our own coffee at home.

supply and demand my dude... free market right wing capitalism for the win. 💪

You pay a lot more than when you had to purchase things

If you're not owning it in the first place, piracy is not stealing.

Oh, whine. I pay $0 for youtube's wonderful services, like every time I return to home page it reloads all the links in 5 seconds and all the thumbnails in 10. Yes, in that order. To different links.

​@@johnsmith-cw3woWhen most laws are written in favor of corporations due to lobbying, it's called end stage capitalism, aka (corporate+state) fa$ci$m. Unregulated capitalism always ends up in the same manner, some would say that in time, all forms of capitalism do, the only difference is how fast it progresses to that dystopian end stage..

Same. Cancelled everything. Stopped shopping at big corpo stores for my regular needs and I'm unexpectedly saving around 5k a year. I thought I would pay a premium for avoiding it and I am 1 to 1 but I found I don't actually use the services enough to warrant a subscription of any kind, outside of my phone.

And then he does a surfshark commercial, which is really odd to me. Even _he_ still wants the money more than he values his own integrity. Btw: There are creators who publish how much those VPN companies offered them, and state the VPN deals are among the most profitable you can get.

Me too

I never started. Facebook was always suspect to me because they don't give a shit about privacy. Amazon exploits their employees and suppliers, as does Uber. They also destroy local businesses who don't have the ability to abuse tax loopholes as the multinationals do.

The problem is our anger is slightly misdirected. Although some blame needs to be shared by the companies, we need to be mindful of the fact that everyone has commitments and debts to repay including countries, and if there was a productivity decline for 2 years and govts tried to solve it by going further into debt, we should remember that inflation will rise. Sadly, our approach now is: spend the stimulus check today, think about consequences later. We let the govt get away with a lot of things.

Arun is so rich that he spends the equivalent of France's minimum wage on subscription every month.

@@manthe3711 Meanwhile I can't see myself signing up for even one subscription service because "am I actually gonna be using it? not likely? then why bother" while he has like a dozen services while having probably far less free time than I do. I see it less as him spending "so much" as him failing to resist the companies selling him crap he probably isn't using all that much anyway. Different people have different priorities, though seeing him spend 1200 pounds on subscriptions makes me go "but why?"

Unfortunately it won't do shit.

@@yashrastogi149 The more people are aware of the issue, the more likely they are to support solutions. Small steps are all we have, unless you got a better plan?

@@HunterTracks Being aware of the fact is not enough to have these companies change their policies and even if through some miracle they did "change" how long did think it would take them to start exploiting the consumers again?

the first isnt a dark pattern, its just shitty. the second though... thats a "dark pattern"

​@@riley1636 Ads used to end without user input. It was an intentional design shift when that changed. Though it may not sound like much, it's yet another change that was forced on us, despite it making the experience worse.

@@lithelily yeah but that's not trickery, it's just shitty. dark patterns aren't synonymous with shitty, they're synonymous with "tactics to get you to do things we want you to without you realizing we're forcing you to" aka tricking you.

New speak

Adblockers. Get them. The internet will be a nicer place, but it’ll feel dead.

Don't forget to tip your landlord!

That they ask for a tip before the service is even received is my biggest annoyance.

It is to shift costs from the employer to the customer.

yes this is stupid, im in the uk where tipping isnt common because the uk pay the staff an ok wage, but they still want tips, f that ill go out my self to go get the damn thing. aint tipping when the pricing on everything is higher than instore, ontop of that they add a service charge and a delivery fee, why do i need to tip when everything is already higher than it needs to be, its just pure greed.

Heh. That's certainly a very American problem.

This.

fr

Yes!

Yes yes yes yeah

That would be nice, but this guy kinda built his channel on phone and gadget reviews. To suddenly stop would be a brave move.

10%*

Cancelled my Amazon Prime around halfway this video XD

Or $1,000,000. Both works.

@@grasz yeah 1M monthly or 10M a year from now :)

Don't be cowards guys let's do it

helped the widow of a friend sort her financial woes after his death by going through all the shit she pays for but don't use, it was a nightmare, more than 600€ thrown away each month for nothing, like two gym subscriptions she says she had "cancelled" including one for a place that closed down in her city in 2020. took close to two months to cancel everything as some "required" sending registered mail twice. 😑 oh yeah, and two "security suites" for a windows pc she doesn't have. 🤡

​@@kittytraildamn that is rotten to the core, cheers that you helped her out and I hope that the system will change. But I fear that too many people wont care enough to force the businesses to stop these practices

@@merkasable she signed for all those but never checks her bank statements or email, it's a nightmare as she has now new subs for coffee pods and some beauty/skincare products. i'm not sure she really understands that her monthly available for discretionary spending money has been divided by more than 3 since my friend death... 😑

​@@kittytrail Had a case where my friend was paying for ant-virus and the cancel page leads to an error 404 page, in the end i teached him that he can call his credit card company and ask them to cancel any subscription from there AND ask for a chargeback for everything he didin't use by just telling he got scamed.

@@adrianocs4 depends where you are on this planet. here, you cannot cancel directly your payment as contract law is enforced quite well both for the company interests and for the customer ones and judges tend to side with the customer in case of a doubt (much like ebay's CS way of doing things) as the threshold of "proof" is higher for professionals than for laymen. there are lots of loopholes like unilateral contract terms modifications that will free you from the most robust contract if you don't agree with those changes (say roaming incoming SMS charges in Zimbabwe for your cellphone contract while you won't _ever_ need it), even if the new terms are in your favor of if they encompass a part you never used nor ever planned to use. one of the biggest problem is when the corporation is american or english and you have to go through their vile anglo shenanigans about the customer always being right as long as he pays, as soon as he stops or wants to stop, they consider you literally like a traitor and an ignoble person that cannot appreciate their infinite generosity in having you as a customer. or if you have to deal with cheap arsed 3rd world CS reps that neither understand what you say or mean nor do you understand what they're saying... 😑 add that most people are pretty much gullible and won't read the contract they're agreeing to nor would they understand half of it if they took the time to do so. 😑

you can also dispute the charge using your bank

@@videoandphotographyllc Doesn't it hurt your credit score, if you do it that way?

As long as you give them their stated required notice period that you will be cancelling your contract, then you have every right to cancel the standing order or direct debit in your account. For them to make a claim against you for monies in arrears they would have to show how you had breached the contract (ie not given them x number of days notice). Moral of the story: don't fall for the "keep your account open after cancelling in case we need to give you a refund" because that's an age old lie. Take it from an ex-call center worker for a number of those dodgy companies that "put customer service at the heart of everything we do", it's a lie 99% of people fall for.

Uber is a TERRIBLE company TERRIBLE

Uber is owned by one of the most extortive banking families in the history of human beings, Rothschild.

I absolutely agree with you

Couldn't say it any better

that's been my life, the entire way. weird how all of you are just finally figuring out the only way to save money, is to save money. LOL.

you are a real hero!!

How do you watch tv shows, then? By downloading them?

This is true

I'm a 20 year advertiser. Google wants to make sure that it's mostly paid clicks that I get, and at the same time their customer service is horrid. I spend $6000 a month with them, yet the 2 or 3 times a year that I call with a problem I get a call center with script readers who don't help at all. It used to be that interns from Stanford or Berkeley would man the phones, but that ended 10 years ago or so.

@@sirlawrencet I think they're just literally "too big to fail" at this point. They know you need them if you want to advertise online these days... so they don't give a shit :/ Edit: I remember it used to be pretty solid customer service too (at least on the business side of things anyway)

Google search + reddit. Like redditors opinions aren't perfect but at least you get a diverse group of people with differing opinions talking about the topic you're interested in and then maybe u can form an opinion based off of that

🦆🦆🐐 DuckDuckGo instead

Its your country, most likely the USA In Europe its illegal and you have to have a easy cancel button BY LAW

@Scresho202 it's Australia lol I'm from NZ and we have to go through their services to access some services because they're not available here

@@rhanhurst8002 Interesting! Sorry for the wrong assumption!

@@Scresho202 I’m in Germany and I cannot change anything relevant about Spotify or Amazon Prime from within the app. I have to use a desktop version.

@@glockenrein You can use the mobile website too, can't say if inside the App works But still it's easily available on either device and is mandatory by EU law Don't think inside the App is mandatory

This

Yeah this just reminded me to cancel my Uber one sub. They did the 3 months free offer which is coming up in a month. I have no intention on keeping it. I only order once or twice a month so not worthwhile for me to use that. Most of the time I just go pickup my food so no need for it.

This video deserves to be seen by more people, it's the sort of education big companies don't want people to know

For me this is one of the most valuable RU-vid channels ever in existence.

cry more

@@mordante01 What?

@@mitsunam7001 People cry and moan that things cost money. I think Disney+ never made money. Spotify is I think also losing money and the artists gets paid almost nothing. People cry about about it but forgot buying a single CD or LP costs more then 2 months subscription. Spotify is too cheap.

Me too

@@mordante01 WEE WOO WEE WOO DEPRESSION ALERT

On the opposite spectrum is website that put a higher price the second time you open it, to punish you for browse around for similar products. 🤬

Because it works - it's proven to turn on panic responses to make you more likely to panic-buy. (Unless you know what's actually going on, that is)

Udemy increases price after multiple visits. It initially fooled me into buying courses in haste (they were good Cs related courses but i could've bought them as per need hadn't i thought prices don't actually increase using discount coupons etc)

Airlines use this alot, the more times you look at a certain flight at a certain date and a certain time the more you are giving away about actually wanting to book that specific flight. This is when they start up charging you at least a couple of tenners.

Anyone who puts a time limit on the availability of their product is trying to make you panic buy. Legitimate salesmen have always done this, but the ploy is mostly used by scammers nowadays.

He doesn't need a sponsor. He's about to surpass Apple in subscribers and it is a tech channel. The amount of ad money he's pulling is terrifying to think about. Glad he decided to take advantage of his sponsor-independence and giant audience to sting giant companies in the balls.

@@olekbeluga314 If he needs to grow his business, he does need sponsorships. It's just most of the companies he mentioned don't do youtube channel sponsorships usually so he is ok. If he goes after Surfshark, DBrand, etc. he may bring in huge losses.

Wait and see.

These companies dont need sponsorships anyways, hence why they're doing enshitification.

@@sensualbydomeni dude he is just..... so incompetent. complains about everything and misinformation. you can get a one month ps sub. for a tech channel he is just a consumer. the japan ep was good. otherwise very whiny. to each their own.

So wait does that mean 1st class used to be standard or am I misunderstanding this?

@@Prometheus7272 Pretty much; in the old days of the airline industry, first class was the only thing available: there were plenty of room, very comfy, great customer service, etc. Nowadays, it's in the tier system where first class is now the upper tier at a higher price and economy is the lowest tier where they shove people in like a tuna can.

Like Tuna can 😂😂😂

@@Slaggo My entire life’s a lie

I would argue the way airlines approached this had an overall positive effect (making air travel more accessible), but other industries bent it to make it malicious.

Yep, the entire economy is now based on tricking us. I’m so tired of subscriptions. I don’t do free trials anymore because they make it so hard to cancel that you put it off until the last day and they hope you give up trying to find the link to cancel and keep paying

you can thank share holder capitalism. I remember when the talks about free internet and open software technology were at the forefront, but then people went... nooo let s just give them something and it will be fine. Now that they are the only game is town you see why it was an important fight to win. Give them a finger, they ll take the balls next.

Ikr it just all feels so bad compared to pre-2020 imo I feel like RU-vid and Google are making the occasional effort to go in the right direction though, like YT recently asking users to choose the content they actually would like to see more of

@@pigimiceli i think its more about large monopoly companies in tech (e.g. Facebook, Amazon, Uber, Netfilix) that can base their whole business strategies on enshittification. There is no viable alternatives for the users to seek higher quality services. In the non-internet world, we don't have this problem. With cars, restaurant etc we can always choose to go for competitor if we are not satisfied with the product we get.

@@guillaumelane3374 Honestly RU-vid are one of the worst ones. They keep locking existing features behind the paywall and increasing the number of ads.

Lol

Adblock is free. I can't remember the last time I saw a sponsored item or ad.

​@@BenjamimicRU-vid does not let your do anymore

@@shadowgaming475 google a bit harder ;)

Whot mate? That sounds horrible. You can enjoy RU-vid on your phone. 0 ads at $0. Can't speak for iPhone users, though.

+1

Has?! It always was. They sphear headed the subscription service for software. But they never fixed their products, with subscription their products became worse

you have to cancel it from time to time and take the black friday offer with 40% discount. last december i canceled it and they gave me 2 months for free. but its still f expensive

So glad there are decent one time purchase or free alternatives to all their software.

@@Kool212 Yep, I've started using Resolve and Affintiy Photo and they're pretty good. Adobe can do one.

recent college grad?

@@divedive8782 No. Graduated over 20 years ago. Just easier to notice corruption as life goes on. Its usually a few people that ruin life for many. Like driving on the road. Count how many are bad vs good.

Ordering online is cheaper, it only gets expensive when you buy from big companies and even then it's cheaper for them. If physical stores had better ways of jacking up prices they would and they still do some sneaky tricks.

One of capitalism's "killer apps" is pricing goods efficiently. For example, if I'm an apple farmer, how many apples do I need to sell in order to pay for the new engine on my truck? As it turns out, for most things in general, free markets do a good job deciding the efficient point. It doesn't work for things like medicine where people can't just opt to use the product, but it does for things like delivery services. The same people here complaining about the cost of online services that deliver to your house would also probably complain about workers not getting paid enough. And these services LOSE money for the companies. You know why? It's never been efficient to have a single person deliver you a $10 lunch. It uses an insane amount of resources for almost no benefit. It's SUPPOSED TO cost this much, because it's ridiculously inefficient and resource hungry. You all might as well complain that you can't get your food delivered by helicopter for cheap.

@@jeffreysanders7334 I can't get my food delivered by helicopters for cheap. Workers aren't getting paid enough.

​@@jeffreysanders7334cheap food helicopter delivery and fairly paid workers sound really cool actually, companies should do that

​​@@jeffreysanders7334 cheap helicopter food delivery and fairly paid workers sound really cool tbh corps should do that

rotating streaming services? A true millenial is a pirate. They make enough money, don't worry about the loss you incure them.

Fully agreed. I'm an older non-silicone valley tech worker. I saw these traps coming a mile away. I never joined Facebook. I never use delivery. I was an earl Netflix subscriber... until it was flooded with garbage, and realized I essentially never found anything I liked on it and quickly cancelled it. I don't sign up for Amazon prime, and when I do, I game the crap out of them at get the "free trial" service for a week, then immediately cancel the service (which they let you do). I have almost zero apps installed on my phone. In fact, if I could get rid of my smart phone, I think I would, and just go with a dumb feature phone. You just have to see the angle these companies are using. It's all fairly obvious. So much of tech today is a trap.

Gen X innit

okay boomer

I started with an in-company Saturday afternoon class, soldering resistors, condensers, etc. onto a 1-board base 16 "computer", and finished up (I think) working on the merger of a data center /"cloud" company with a smaller (sexier) startup in the same industry. .. And, like you, I have avoided participating in much of what is happening now: sticking with taxis, picking up the food or eating in the restaurant, not getting a smart phone =not installing apps, no wifi, limiting social media platforms, etc., but still happy to work online. The sh@#&!tification really has gone too far, and being cynical / suspicious of all convenient free things is justified.

Saint Klaus😊

They said it only now, but went on from like 60s, with TVs, milkmen and electricity bill... It really is, a technocracy beofeudalism, corpocracy - we are ants the those at power, they give us just specks, "gifts" to appease masses from rising up...

rhis is why piracy will be rocking unless u are in b2b

Except for the being happy bit

and ironically the right wing is in favor of it

This has become one of my favorite sayings

Best quote I read today

Based

shark tanks honest reaction ._.

Piracy isn't stealing, it's just renting

They already do here in the UK. We threw the printer away after a few months...felt like we were being extorted since it only accepts HP printer ink.

Many EVs already require all sorts of paid subscriptions to use some features.

I keep telling Robert Reich's lemmings this all the time: if you don't like a service or how much a company is making, don't buy their stuff. We are a consumer society that has to keep up with the Jones', MUST HAVE the latest & greatest, while not realizing they are playing a game that they can't win. Live humble, live simple, live basic and life is so much more enjoyable.

The economy continues to monopolize American companies are not investing money into innovation and productivity. They are growing through stock buybacks to inflate prices and through buying other smaller companies and expanding and driving out smaller competitors. This is the undeniable trend until republicans become serious about anti trust laws. We either have to abandon these monopolies and contribute to consume from companies that democratize access and control to the masses or we are screwed.

The economy continues to monopolize American companies are not investing money into innovation and productivity. They are growing through stock buybacks to inflate prices and through buying other smaller companies and expanding and driving out smaller competitors. This is the undeniable trend until republicans become serious about anti trust laws. We either have to abandon these monopolies and contribute to consume from companies that democratize access and control to the masses or we are screwed.

Trick is, for movies, if it's a Netflix produced movie (or any other platform) it will probably never have a physical release. So no only do we have to maintain our subscription or resubscribe if we ever want to watch it again, it will never have the same level of quality as the disk at the same "quality level". And even if you pirate it, that will almost always be even worse.

@@linnoff False. Pirating it has the same exact quality as the highest resolution available at the time for release. Pirates are very particular in the quality of their media libraries.

And e-books were supposed to be cheaper than paper...what a joke

You're kinda, sorta right. While Amazon didn't engage in selling below cost on books, it did sell the books at or near cost plus shipping. The local bookstores couldn't compete because they needed to make more profit to exist. Amazon's actual key advantage was that it was not required to collect sales tax while your local bookstore likely was. This means that even if Amazon sold at a comparable price, it was still decently cheaper to purchase off of Amazon because of sales tax.

I find it funny how I warned people not to fanboy for Amazon. I seen people go "I only use Amazon I trust no one else" and thousands of times I would warn people irl it sounds very similar to the strategies I heard about Walmart and nobody listened.

its not just about market capital its all about market SHARE

@@ZaerdinGaming How do you know they weren't selling at a loss? Shipping would be more than sales tax for sure.

just go on a pirate website with an adblock completely free better quality no ads

the answer is "piracy", i used to subscribe to spotify, youtube, netflix, crunchyroll, qobuz then i canceled everything except youtube and pirate movies, series. It's ridiculous when you have to pay for 4 months subscrition just to watch 1 seri

Because you don't know how to get basically everything from those paid platforms for free and ad free.

You still pay for it? I switched back to piracy immediately when this shit started happening. Have some dignity mate

@@JanKowalski-wb8ih have never payed any subscription (except iCloud for 1€) it just forces me to use it, cause i don't want to pay it for nothing with piracy you can watch something, have 3 months of life in between and then watch something again without having in mind that you are constantly paying for something you rarely use

same. the only app i subcribe for is cloud storadge, but even that i am planning on cancelling and just backup my photos locally

I would get to the "Confirm Delivery" button, look at the ~£8 *extra fee* and think "I could just pay myself £8 to walk to the place" 😂😂😂 Was so easy to stop after I sussed it

@@kingraptor11 sussed

I have car insurance and a RU-vid subscription. I own my own house cos I refused to pay my mortgage that the tax payer and insurance company and vulture fund had already paid for . Think outside the box. I got a 250000€ house for 28k cos I stood up for myself. The people who destroyed my country were not going to make me a slave. Stay free. Erin go bragh

I haven't cut the cord completely on subscriptions--I'm way over-subscribed on streaming platforms. But yeah, I've done a hard pass on delivery ever since DoorDash, UberEats and so forth took over. I've no issue with giving a delivery driver the same tip I give a waitress (at least 20%), but the notion of forking over that much cash just for the benefit of Johnny Stockholder, Venture Capitalist, is very much a non-starter.

Thats the other problem everyone is living in a bubble, cancel the subscriptions, dont waste your money.

Frrr

I dont get it, people have been talking about this for years…..

@@Daniel-rp7nb Me neither. Are all these tricks just now occurring to this man? I mean, I like him but tell me something I don't know.

@@TimHaggerty-ox8bl Well, not everyone knows. OP for example probably wouldn't have known without this video, and believe me your average person doesn't really notice so whether or no you personally already knew doesn't mean that the video is without merit.

I'm old enough to remember when RU-vid didn't have any ads.

Same, Aaron, same lol

RU-vid will literally make you watch a 15 second ad on a 3 second video these days.

Idk about phone and pc cause I watch most of my RU-vid on tv but sometimes RU-vid will give FOUR UNSKIPPABLE ADS

Also now they pump more adds than tv, and pay the creators less and less. In fact many large channels can't even support themselves now without sponsor adds. Time for some competition.

I used to be able to walk to the store and buy DVDs. It's a distribution problem. There is nothing entertainment related within walking distance anymore when there used to be: arcades, book stores, comic book stores, video stores...all gone.

Cinemahd always coming in clutch

Not to mention that some things just aren't available anymore without piracy. There's albums, games, etc. that you just can't get normally anymore.

​@@freedustin Big tech companies are the same as Big box retailers. They kill off small businesses and then monopolize the market. Capitalism is bad for societies doesn't matter how much ever you defend it. "For profit" is always their core.

yeah there was this russian game developer on twitter who said she doesnt even gaf if kids wanna pirate her game bc "shes been there" LOL. i think her name is nikoteenie or something @@IamTaniwha

oof. i drive but i never order, it's such a scam.

You should look at Drife, they don't charge anything between rider and driver. Their revenue comes solely from driver subscriptions.

Do you check to see if a tip has already been added?

He never got into how they screwed the drivers to rake out more share profiteering.

Nice big corps just pockets our money.

Yes it should be. Find a consumer protection group in your area and do a class action.

@@Iquey problem is only people who live in developed countries think about this. Where I live most people have other problem.

Cancel the card and get a new card.

@bills6093 cards are expensive. In some countries, banks sell them

@bills6093 CC companies like Visa and Mastercard both have a service called “Automatic Billing Updater” - it essentially updates the companies with new card info without your manual intervention so your subscriptions can keep going. This is also why you see your new card getting charged when you clearly remember you had originally subscribed using a card that has since expired, for example.

Stop reminding me of reality😢

Thank's to their politicians!

💯

Enjoy your waitlists.

Thought the same ish.

I have a friend who works for a bank. And he told me that one of the most frequent requests is that clients are stuck with some subscription and can't cancel it. So he had to freeze the checking account and/or credit card for the client, and give the client a new account and/or card.

I am a driver for Uber and DoorDash. I can tell you that in 99% cases nothing happens to your food between the restaurants and it is dropped at your door. Almost all of us just put it in a thermal back or if it’s cold in a cold Right away I’m driving to your house. We just wanna keep our job. We have no interest in messing with your food for those who mess with the food there are serious consequences and honestly we don’t wanna dot that. we get seriously abused by these companies and I guess, if driver is at their breaking point and see no hope in going on then might do something like not deliver the food because they’re just about to have the app turned off on them and lose their job in a second and really don’t care what happens to them or your food. The better you tip the driver the batter driver you’re gonna get. We only get two dollar base pay for every delivery from these companies. They really want to extract as much money as they can from all parties involved, which is the driver, the customer, and the restaurant, it really makes nobody happy, but they keep trying to pitch all of these three parties against each other while they hide between a very opaque wall.

People have been ordering food online for decades... It's fine

Yeah, I'm more than happy to pick up my own food. What really gets me is what's happened at my Youngest's university. They have a Student Center with a fairly large food court. Only, you can't order food from most of the restaurants, you have to place an order on an Apple iPad-like kiosk. Take a guess who owns the kiosk? Grubhub. You literally cannot order food from the restaurants directly--you have to order through a third-party company which or course, tacks on a service fee for using their stupid kiosk. And I doubt many of the students have noticed this.

Exactly. I've shut down a lot of consumption due to getting ripped off. I basically cook nice things organic and local at home. And Uber? I'm willing to walk 5+ miles or wait to get away from surge, I also open Lyft and Uber and makre sure to use the cheapest option.

You lost me at the last point haha, but the rest is true

Now this is a GREAT idea

this guy is complaining about inflation as if it's an evil conspiracy..

Imagine you actually made your own purchase choices without relying on daddy government to hold your hand for you

Symmetrical cancellation, it should take you the same amount of time to cancel than it took you to subscribe and or get money back.

@@mszualawhich will never happen unfortunately

But this whole video was basically a plug for SurfShark VPN, yet another subscription service - the irony 😂 And remember the piece he’s quoting is only possible if you pay for the service upfront in its entirety, so his per month price is quite grey

He's correct about a lot of what he says, however... The basket nonsense is kinda dumb. It wasn't £4 it had shipping of another £4 unless you spend £30. Also the website is a local business that sells cheap decorations. That would be like me complaining about how dollar tree has cheap decorative glass, and that on Amazon for the same thing it's more expensive... Makes no sense.

​@@christiansimmons630 yes they side by side BANKRUPT own subscriber

What will they do to him?

@@SebeastMr-zh4px Never sponser him.

and that, is what credit card chargeback is for, no money for them!

good thing i have the reminder app to remind me to cancel on time

Isn't 21st century capitalism wonderful?

@@misakamikoto8785 except now credit cards don't hand out chargebacks so willynilly now that American's espically abuse them

They should be required by law to prorate it. But our politicians don't give a crap about us so why would they actually put decent laws in? 😝