Why The Internet Is Starting To Break | Asmongold Reacts 

Paying money to still see ads…The absolute state of it.

Pro tips: Pirate media. cancel subscriptions immediately. use ad block. dont use uber or door dash unless necessary/only order from places that deliver themselves instead of through a third party

I litterally got fired from tech support, because I didnt try to do upsells, but tried to fix the customers problems instead. It really is messed up

Worked as a CSR at ATT around 10 years ago. Can confirm Zach’s upsell story. They didn’t care about fixing people’s issues. They only cared about selling their U-Verse service.

I swear to God, if I were to cancel my Netflix subscription some day in the future, it might actually say, "Your sister really likes binging this show. Are you sure you want to deny her that?"

Ad revenue is drying up. Pay walls everywhere!

-Calls spectrum for technical support -Gets a representative in another country with an accent i can't understand. -Calls to cancel service -Gets charismatic person who speaks perfect english trying to sell me a phone.

If anyone sends you to retention instead of canceling your subscription, just tell them your going to federal prison for tax evasion. They always cancel my subscription after that.

Okay, one thing : Uber/Doordash driver here. When you pay for priority that only means you get your order first. It does not mean you get your delivery in 10 minutes, or 15 minutes. If you are priority it means you are the 1st person I drive to. You get no other special privileges. I don't care what the app promises you. Also beware. The driver could also know the other person address and could deliver to them first anyways. As well as they could be multi apping and have another to stack with yours going your direction. TLDR : Priority delivery is a scam. Don't buy it. Waste of money.

Thomas Sowell said, the biggest enemy of business is the businessman.

33:23 Genshin Impact by Mihoyo does this dark pattern. When you uninstall it, it shows up a message begging you to not uninstall with a crying character

i have 0 subscrbtions. i pirate everything.

In Baltimore we call it hacking a Uber, that’s when you find a driver you like and get their direct contact info. The driver gets all the cash I get a ride for half price Win Win for me and driver Alil loss for the app

Prime video just started charging an extra $3 or $4 a month JUST to not have ads even though we already pay an insane amount every year for Amazon Prime. Insane.

I can't use Uber anymore because I randomly got charged a $150 cleaning fee that I refused to pay.

I refuse to buy any food that is delivered from any of the apps. It’s absolutely ridiculous how many people I know spend SO much money having almost all of their meals delivered. We wonder why we don’t have excess money these days but people are also way worse at money management these days.

Even worse on many subscription sites now is that when you select cancel, they bring you to a page that lists all the benefits and says "Keep Subscription" as a big bright button. And then you literally can't find the confirm cancellation because its almost the exact same color as the background and is tiny size 9 text at the bottom of the page. Its insane.

The day Gaben passes the torch we are doomed.

Some gyms require you to allow them to pull your membership fee directly from your checking account, and they often have a contract that requires you to notify them 30 days in advance of your cancellation. You can have your banker freeze their ability to pull the funds, but then you'd have to take them to court to avoid having them send the unpaid account to collections if you don't pay the extra 30 days. Often times these gyms will turn off your door key card too. They get sued until they pull their heads out of their backsides for air. It's ridiculous.

As far as the Amazon cart selecting slower delivery, seems to happen on items without next-day or same-day, especially when you have a big cart with items coming from different locations and they can try to put items into a single delivery date

This is the Cyberpunk story. The only remaining on the plot is for a Ai to malfunction (or rogue or anything you call it), to crash the entire Internet. Considering how much the economy is dependant on the Internet imagine the fallout.

Every time a company asks me why I'm canceling my subscription I select "other" and type in the text slot "I just farted real hard".

The random doll feet in the targeted ad bit was a brilliant touch

Thanks for the update Ross. Doing my part by spreading the word. Keep up the 👍

Fun fact if someone you know dies and a debt collector asks to pay any amount refuse, do not give them a single penny. They can aruge that the partial payment is proof that you assumed responsibility and for you the inherent the debt

the dead internet theory is looking more and more real by the day

I think with Gyms and things like that that require cancellation in person is because you need to hand over your membership card. While they can create your profile and set you up online/phone and when you come in the first time you pick up the card or its mailed to you. But this is likely because those cards all have the same access key to get through the doors, so they gotta make sure you arent cancelling and then still coming in to use the facilities.

Thank you for finding these videos. I usually go straight to the video and watch them, without the interruptions, so I don't have to listen to you start and stop the video.

This is happening to us truck drivers, Uber, and Amazon entered the market. Destroying rates, killing small companies.

The internet, the housing market, and the economy in general are all going to hell. A zombie apocalypse would be more preferable.

I worked in tech support and they asked us to upsell a product that had nothing to do with what we were helping the customer with and do a whole presentation spiel in the middle of them trying to get help. Our whole team just didn't do it. Management came and asked why we weren't doing it. I told them it had nothing to do with what we were helping the customer with (in a nice way). Management stopped asking us to do that bs.

I worked at a call center as well and they pushed sales when I had a 95% first call resolution.

The saddest thing is the healthcare & insurance systems in US are FAR more predatory & “scammy” then even Uber

The great irony that once a company goes "public" they're no longer in service to providing better service at a cheaper price and end up being owned and ran by the same group of people. Yet at the same time, we say our government is "public", yet they're also not concerned with better service at a cheaper price and tend to be owned by the same group of people. Apply everything he said about companies and their share holders to the government..

30:29 for me it is also true that it auto-selects the later one

Amazon Prime has never fulfilled Next day shipping for Puerto Rico. It used to take 3-5 days. Nowdays you purchase an item and it does not ship until 7days pass. The item arrives 10-12 days after purchase date.

I remember when sailing the seven seas was disappearing. Now it is on the rise due to skyrocketing pricing and tiering.

This is why Adblockers and piracy is your *DUTY*

The solution to the cancel subscription problem is to only ever pay for a subscription with a preloaded card that doesn't allow overdraft fees. You can't get blood out of a turnip, and you can't charge a card with no money. Then you simply wait until a subscription you wish to continue emails you about your declined payment, load the appropriate amount of money onto the card, and make that payment.

As an exPizza place manager, we had drivers. Coverage only was a specific area according to the "region" of your franchise. You don't deliver outside your licensed range. In some cases you could stretch the range a few miles, but eventually you're cutting into another franchise owner's region and then you'll get complaints or people saying "You did it that one time, why not now?" when it's winter time, conditions aren't great, and they WILL complain if their delivery is late to get a free, so a lot of franchise owners will not take the risk. Aside from that. Drivers are in a pool. Each get an order according to their placement on the pool and then they'll get attachment locations within range of that order. Like say streets 1-5 are in the north and 6-10 are in the south. We aren't going to send driver 1 to 1st street and driver 2 to 2nd street while there is an order to go to 9th street. So it's first come first serve, get there get back, take proximity orders with you to save fuel for the drivers and orders get delivered faster and more logically. Yes, it can be a little unbalanced where driver 1 might get 3 orders, ie: 3 orders to 10th, while 1 order for 1st. It happens, but not everyone tips. That driver delivering 3 orders will take longer to get back, so the driver who went to 1st would wait as long as possible for a second order, then go, or be back and take the next 2 if possible.

You should be able to cancel all recognised subscriptions from your banking app. I think it's so important to be able to control all of your subscriptions in one place. It's up to the company to check whether payment has been received for your account or not.

Your job as a consumer in a free market is to stop using the products or services that do not serve you. If you're interacting with bad products, you're telling the market that they're worth it to you. So they keep in that direction. Don't interact with things that aren't good, or they'll never get better.

My favorite thing to do is put the things I need in my cart and just leave it for a while. I tend to get a notification to use a coupon or discount on my items after a day or two.

The shipping thing only happens to me when I buy multiple items and they don't all qualify for the fastest shipping

8:14 Louis Rossman did a video about how he was paying for 4K Netflix, but only getting 720p

Publicly traded companies are legally required to do things for the benefit of the investors (1916 Dodge v Ford), not consumers. That ruling has done nothing but enable exploitation.

the mimimun for prime was for the 1day/next day shipping. as opposed to their two day shipping that was often late.

and he didn't even go into the problem that the products of Google & Meta (I don't know about AWS, I don't use them) like their ad platforms, are neck-deep in bugs. I guess because they implemented a heck of tools and then (before 1-2 years) they went into massive cuts of stuff, and now they don't have enough people to run their products properly.

I worked for a small commercial printer... we were using a super old version of adobe because it was a one time fee instead of their INSANE monthly sub fee. One of the employees accidentally hit the automatic update button on one of the computers and it broke that old version of it, forcing you to upgrade to the sub model. We couldn't use that computer for photoshop anymore.

This is why people like Gaben for Valve/Steam is so important. Businessman who stick to principles and values of their customers will always outlast those who stick to monetary gain. In 10 Years there will be 3 different Ubers but there will always be one Steam because nobody feels the need to move to different platforms when Steam is affordable and honest. Unlike Uber and these other companies who offer no value or trust to their customers.

The one company I might call an exception regarding membership/subscriptions is Costco. It’s crazy how much cheaper it is than a regular grocery store. Then on top of that if you have a platinum membership you get a pretty fat check at the end of the year. I’ve done the math and it is to your benefit if you regularly get groceries there.

What you said about Australia is kind of true, but same as USA, it still happens all the time, places boost their prices and then put a big "sale" sticker on it for the same price it was the week before. I found the Mc Donals thing interesting. Here things are actually cheaper if you use the app AND go into the store, not sure about ordering it through uber eats though.

That "speedy delivery" fee is just another markup. I used to do doordash and ubereats. I've had customers complain they paid for the faster service, and it's still a stacked order. The only difference I've noticed is it gets your food dropped off first, but also picked up first. So if I pick up your order first, then drive to the next resteraunt and have to wait 10 minutes for tge 2nd order, then your food just sat for an extra 10+ minutes.

I usually just cancel my free trials immediately after accepting the trial. If they are extra scummy though, they won't let you use the time once you cancel, but most places do still allow you to use the free trial time. Just think of cancelling as part of the free trial process

also those delivery options depend on what is in stock in amazon warehouses "near you" thats why it might not happen to you

I started experiencing issues with Amazon these past two years, it seems. I agree with what you are saying that it has been everything going up. Fast food, regular food, FOOD,

another issue is many people have a difficult time saying NO thanks to an upsell under pressure

"Pay money to save money" lmao

I watched this video when it came out and only now do I see that there should indeed be a 1 month option in the ps plus plans. In the top right corner of the subscribtion panel there is a L2/R2 to switch payment plans, but the point he makes still stands strong.

with the speading of shows between more and more streaming sites its no suprise loads of people are switching back to piracy. canceling anything should be just as easy as signing up for it. easiest way is usually tell the bank to refuse payment, and can be good to do anyway because some companies try to keep charging after you have canceled. soo easy to just cancel a regular payment through a banking app in the UK. if a company asks are you sure before canceling they should have to ask if your sure in the same way when signing up. if you can sign up easilly online you should be able to cancel just as easilly online. if they insist customers send a letter in writing to cancel they should only allow customers to sign up in that way aswell.

We just had to go for the "Cyberpunk Dystopian Nightmare" world didn't we?

So I was on the mod team during the PS4 launch. We reported over and over the feedback about how hard it is to cancel. Needless to say... the dev team and our contacts agreed, they took the feedback over and over and wanted to change it... but it was mysteriously never approved for a fix by executive leadership. Then, when the update we were testing actually came out... it was EVEN DEEPER in the menu and now asked you for that "why" screen rather than keeping it optional. This is real, really real shit happening daily in offices all over the world at astonishing rates. We are POWERLESS against this, as long as this remains laissez-faire. Which seems pretty obvious, since biz wants everything entirely de-regulated and they culturally sell the myth that 'oh don't worry about rules, competition will create rules" which is true. The rule is: If you can screw with someone the same way everyone else is screwing with someone, those someones will learn to accept the abuse. That's the real rule and product of competition, always. The race to the bottom really hurts when you finally hit the bottom and the engines keep pushing you down harder into the dirt. The "good ones" have increasingly diminishing power in these huge corps who limit themselves exclusively by legality and laugh at the idea of morality ruling them. Like, when was the list time you heard about a CEO being promoted from the board because they 'really look out for the consumer'? lol This tactic means we have one resort: Extensive legislation. It's just the purely logical response to their logical tactics. Absolutely blows my mind there's normal people out there making like 25K a year who will advocate for these corps "right" to screw us over like it's some moral high ground when it's really just pure ignorance and huffing propaganda as a hobby that makes them think that.

I work in SaaS and I feel like I have so many answers in support of every thing the video said, and things Asmon said. Proper price anchoring in subscription models actually should happen the opposite way: Design the high value service. Strip away certain features with each descending tier, so that it encourages a "growth" user to keep upgrading to the full experience. The kicker here is "white glove services". All companies that charge a premium price for a premium service are offering an unsustainable product, because it is providing more value at the expense of the employees that make it possible. Eventually the key employees that make the value possible will get tired and quit or move on to more lucrative work. The people in charge now have a "talent vacuum" that they're never able to fill again. So those people in charge quit, and the company hires an executive with "the proper experience", which usually means that they'll distill the remaining service into fractional services that can be monetized and measured through KPI's. From there... it's a death spiral as execs quit and get hired to reshuffle and distill the remaining service again into new KPI's, until a new groundbreaking technology enters the market.

the thing with subscriptions depends on the app, example like Spotify i use student plan and it saves me a lot of mobile data usage thanks to downloading songs, in my opinion as long that the app gives you an actual benefit that could help you outside of it its worth

On your companies sell at a loss to break into a market. My town had 3 video stores back in the day (some of these young whipper snappers ain’t ever even been in one I bet). Anyway, Movie Gallery moves into town. Any movie, any game, $1 dollar rental. Kept the price there until the other 3 stores had to shut down. Once they were gone, $5 a rental. It really does happen in every field.

15:59 I’ve noticed fast food apps are starting to do “online only” deals while increasing prices of the menu on the app. They try to trick ya with a coupon but it ends up more expensive than the og prices without the deal

I have been saying this exact same thing about food delivery sites everytime some Driver went on a rant about Customers not tipping. (Which imo, is uncool but not mandatory.) They can afford to pay Drivers more because they have 3 fees before the tip is even an option, but they dont because they want to keep the most they can for themselves.

Yeah Amazon doesn't pre-select the longer time delivery for me. It always has the next day delivery selected. It may be a country thing... maybe it does select next day in the USA but not in the UK?

This is why Piracy and Adblock is so important. If you don't have one use one. You gotta show that if the service isn't worth it that you can always take it without giving them a single penny. The only way to change them is to actually deny them their money.

Cancelling is super easy. Just dispute the charges with your credit card company and state "refused to cancel my subscription".

@ 18:47 All I could think of was "Run, Run my babies!" - Rick and Morty

I’ve never had a bad Uber experience the drivers are always super chill and I always end up having really interesting conversations with them. Occasionally I’ll get a kind of awkward guy that acts weird but it’s all good.

I think the bigger problem is that the barrier for entry becomes too high in terms of amount of regulation. Think about housing, before - if you had a piece of land you just build a house. Now it's literally illegal - you need to hire an architect, enginner, who need to hire a lawyer to navigate the regulation, then you need to hire a licensed electrician, plumber and even a contractor. So barrier to entry is too high. It's become illegal to start small and people just don't have millions lying around.

My question is - when people see how much all of this adds up to on the app, what in the flying fuck possesses them to say yes and hit proceed? I've gone through this a few times and each time I see the final price I say Nope, I just can't justify it, and delete the app.

I drive for Uber. They only take around 15% from the trip. I think the rules are different in the UK

the worst part about the monthly is when I compare the final price, fee plus the other bs, it is literally the same. I got 10% off of the total price or something like that, but the service fee is way higher on my side. So the final price is the same, thought I have the monthly sub.

For the past 10-15 years, online tech companies had the cheapest price because they could sacrifice profits as long as it lead to growing market shares. Now that market shares have stagnated (mostly due to the saturation of regional markets), they have to turn a profit.

"Tiering is like a psychological trick" "There is nothing wrong with tiering" (when it's not a psychological trick...)

the problem is that companies aren't providing cervices/product but focus on making profit. That is it. The moment you focus on $ you are ruining your service/product because in order to make a big profit you have to sacrifice the quality of the product which made the users use your service/product.

Not to mention that with the food delivery apps, if you opt to tip the drivers, you're not actually helping them in the long run. The company will simply pay them less to offset for the average tip amount they get so the drivers are sill willing to work. You basically tip the company, not the delivery person.

the downfall of the internet began when smartphones appeared and all the npcs flooded in. get the fcuk off my internet, normies!

Reminds me of a video Louis Rossman put up talking about how he signed up for LA Fitness online, but to cancel he had to send certified mail and they still tried to say they never got his mail until he read them the confirmation number

It never pre-selected me for slower option, only time u would do that is if u wanted it a day later bc u might not be home

I think that if you sub to a month of any apple subscription, but cancel it immediately, they don't let you stay on for the rest of the month.

Most of the problems in our current society can be summarized by the fact that it wasn't good enough for these companies to make money, or even a LOT of money. But they needed to make ALL of the money. And in trying to make all of the money, they severely damaged potentially beyond repair their ability to make any money.

Just got U Ride in my hometown. People online said "support your local cab businesses!" Called a cab for work the next day. Driver didnt show up. Called them back after half an hour. They said "our driver showed up and no one was there". I was late for work. Definitely using U Ride next time.

I ordered something in March, and the website said within a week or fast delivery 3 days. I took the quick option. The order is now showing delivery delivery between 29 Apr - 6th July. The items is still being advertised as being in stock.

To be honest, you can always cancel a subscription universally in your online banking by blocking any further payment to a given recipient. If there are charges that the bank can't block, you should inquire why. And consider changing the bank. Or changing your cvv. or the card. or whatever.

there's a way to "tag" your email when you sign up with a company. like whenever you get a new phone or have to open a new account to use a service. you can add a +companyname somewhere in your address, so when ever you get random spam, you can see EXACTLY which company sold it.

“Are you sure you want to cancel your subscription to continue living?”

also the netflix problem aside from resolution. is that more and more content owners are creating their own streaming services. so streamers that do not own the content have to pay more in licensing fees to use the content owned by the producers and owners of said content. because they dont want to compete.

It's not true ive done priority before and it still will take longer. They still will do multiple stops. It's honestly not worth ordering food unless its over the calling order method.

That subscription total at the end there is the reason I support sailors of the high seas.

"do you think its because of me" 10:54 No disrespect, but I do in fact believe that asmons mom and GF were buying a bunch of stuff because he had deep pockets and hes a hoarder.

I believe that when you buy something, and you don't look at options of delivery, etc, before reaching to checkout, it's just iresponsible.

In germany we got a law for exactly that in 2022: If a company provides a service and that subscription contract can be entered online, then that company must provide a easy acessible "kündigen" (aka unsubscribe) button on the actual main page. So on german pages of these scammers you would usually find that link somewhere in the footer. (you may need to access from inside germany)

39:25 guy just casually spending my rent on subscriptions

Falsely advertising discounts is illegal in Australia but the enforcement is, naturally, extremely difficult. Companies are also obligated to provide itemized billing upon request (but not as a standard) so you can get breakdowns of Uber trips etc as a price per KM or minute (this is actually standardised in taxis now, all meters will show price per KM or minute as well as flagfall)

i live in the uk and never seen the amazon next day not selected.

I always check eBay for something before I order on Amazon. I saved like half the price doing this before. Ofc shipping is slower sometimes but only by a few days