The leg advertisement is illegal because the person gives no consent to the company for use of their limbs, they do not pay for your limbs, so they can’t use it
i mean it seems dishonest but i dont think its illegal? you choose to sit there nobody is forcing you to sit on that bench. probably gonna be new laws just because of that bullshit
Anti-homeless architecture is so dystopian. "We don't want our richer citizens to see the gross poor so we will spend money to push them away instead of working to fix the problems that cause so much poverty." Those YA novels are seeming more and more realistic
@@kile1343 bruh while this is sad, I can't stop laughing at the prospect of what will happen when the time runs out and you're still sitting on it 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yeah, but you've likely seen the commercial a hundred times since you were a kid and can picture it. I believe it's called brand implantation or something like that. Same tactic used with candy cigarettes, and why most places don't sell them anymore.
it lets you imagine how much its really picking up, so you think its picking up more because of the reactions of the people. (just my thoughts, nothing to back this up)
As someone living in Germany, its really horible how they try and handle digitalization here. Most of the legal stuff has to be done with letter or fax. Most companies don't want Emails because they're "not safe" because they don't wanna pay for online security. Most schools still have really old projectors and if they have classes with PCs, the computers are old and barely able to run Word and Excel. I could go on and on and on about this. We really don't handle this whole tech thing the right way, especially because Germany is a rather traditional country, even though it doesn't seem like that at first glance. Many people don't even wanna learn how to speak english, they don't want websites or anything internet related at all. I really do hope that this changes in the future, but that's something not many people outside of Germany actually know about and it surprises me because it's a day to day thing for someone like me.
so belgium, a country that just is full of junky's corruption and cant even have a good preportion of etchnicity share goverment, is FAR AHEAD that a country wich is the richest in europe, competing with china, but cant afford some decent fucking computers?
@@GameyCat yes. Yes, yes, yes! It sounds ridiculous, doesn't it? But it's actually easy to understand why: Most of the population of Germany is old. Like, really, really old. The school system is horrible, it still works like the one we had a hundred years ago and because the old people are in charge, there is NO CHANGE! They make it that young people can't get invested in politics, which means that the old people have control over all of the laws. It's so stupid and embarrassing that it kinda hurts. I didn't learn English in school. I learned everything on the internet because after seven years of English classes we recently started learning about the simple past. I can't- I'm sorry, I'm getting really tense right now xD I just want people to know that this country full of ingenuity and money isn't able to move forward because the old people don't want things to change. It almost hurts seeing that nothing is able to move on.
That Hulu one got on my nerves cause families and friends sharing accounts is the equivalent of lending someone a book you checked out. It's not illegal and streaming services are only mad cause they can't make more money. I paid for the service, let me use it how I want.
Instead of hoping they will change, make them change with your wallet, and cancel subscriptions to shitty services alltogether! Greedy companies only understand profits dropping massively, not our hopes and wishes.
@@Zorander. Yeah. I dropped Hulu a while ago. My mom got the ad version and it was so annoying so I just asked her to drop it. If there's anything on there I want to see, I usually just use my sister's friend's acc
Ok, the bottle one is a scam, but having some inside knowledge of the packaging industry, there *is* a scenario where it's not quite as scammy as it looks. See, plastics today have multiple layers. You have layers for strength, impermeability, and printability. Even a seemingly simple plastic bag may have as many as 12 layers. What they *might* have done here is take the plastic bottle and skipped a few layers and used a paper shell. But... I doubt it.
That is exactly what they do tho. Some companies (at least in my country) legit skip the layers you're talking about and wrap it in paper. So every product has at least 40% less plastic. It's hard to judge if the pic in the video is one of those sincere companies.
Im think its funny that some person probably making minimum wage put on the sticker before the screw and just thought I dont get paid enough for this shit and did it anyways.
Another bs thing about text books without binding is that the school book store won't buy them back from you because they aren't bound. Like I had a choice to begin with.
ilove bigbrother because one, in a goofy two shoes, and two I didn't know it would of been unbound until I got it. It didn't exactly give me that detail I. The description when I ordered, and three I didn't know I could potentially do that and now I'm going into my last semester of school in the fall for student teaching. I most likely will not have to buy any more books unless I am to actually use them for student teaching or my future career.
There are shops that can bind books for you, which you usually need for your master's thesis. However, I'm not sure whether that's actually more expensive than what you'd get back from the book store.
@@anlumo1 you never get back what you spent on new books. In fact buying new is just about a scam given when you sell the book's back, they buy them for stupid cheap, then turn around and rent them for quite a bit more than they paid for. So not only did they profit from selling you the book, their now profiting from renting the books out. I rent books when I can now, just because it's so much less expensive, and I don't have to worry about getting a book they'll never buy back and will mean it's collecting dust. With the latter being going through the hassle of selling the book to someone, and pretty much getting nothing but a bismal return for the book m
How is that bs? They can’t buy a book where it’s impossible to know if al the pages are even there. Whether you had a choice or not isn’t particularly relevant.
Schools don’t care about privacy 🤠 Last year, my school used teams for online class, and sometimes we had to work in groups in so called “breakout rooms”. Later, we found out that the teachers STILL COULD HEAR US even when we thought we were alone in the call. We also found out that they could read our private messages on teams. They said that they didn’t do that if there wasn’t a reason for that, but still. I don’t know what else they can get to know about us without us knowing. I really considered sueing them, but i didn’t. Schools are control freaks
YES AND ANOTHER THING TO ADD TO THIS! so rn i'm in my 2 quarter of school and me and my friends were chilling in the bathrooms after drama practice and changing out of our costumes for an upcoming play when one of us notices that on the door frames in EACH OF THE STALLS one of the screws is missing and to check something my friend had the idea of taking a picture with the flash on to see if there was a reflection, incase you didn't know you can take a picture of a "hidden" camera like the replaced screw in my case and if there is a reflection then it's most likely a camera, well it was, AND GUESS WHAT I DID! YEAH that's right i told every single one of my friends and got them to tell as many people as they could AND THEY CLOSED THE BATHROOM FOR A WEEK AND TOOK OUT THE CAMERAS! As someone who's been in strange situations with people looking at me as a homosexual who was a girl this bothered me but i'm glad that we got rid of them, also i believe there were some on my other friends hall to but i'm not sure.
@Aiden Charles Arthur Smawfield I've seen a few such as I am Wildcat and Leveluplifting be sponsored by Norton. But, its rare as rocking horse to find a Norton 365 sponsor
Consumer power feels akin to a sheep charging at the sheepdog, but fuck it, I'd like to see one stand up to an entire flock. Spend wisely, and take NO shit from multi-billion pound companies.
Eh if I like their product I honestly don’t care. Maybe that makes me a bad person, I don’t really know. But I’m not gonna stop myself from consuming a product I enjoy just because I’m petty and didn’t like a piece of scummy marketing they did. Companies are gonna advertise and I don’t blame them, to them it’s just business.
@@DenvaProbablyDraws Well in the case if you have other options with different providers than yeah of course I’ll do whatever’s more cost efficient, but I’m talking about more of a product.
The anti-homeless thing is actually scary to me. Like, this is where our society is heading? To destroy those who need help instead of actually helping them? Weird story, but it’s even worse for me because I imagined these anti-homeless scenarios WAY before they started happening, as a kid with a villain that wanted to eliminate homeless people to make a “perfect” city. I was 6.
People want to ignore the homelessness epidemic by forcing homeless people to hide instead of actually treating the problem. Somehow we've convinced ourselves that the homeless are an enemy and that we could never end up like them.
There are more empty housing units than homeless in the US. Yet billionaires pay almost nothing in taxes, while the department of "justice" focusses on the leakers instead of the problem. We truly like in a messed up country.
That school system app one which uses countless "anti cheat" measures shows every school should not be given this Software so that privacy should be maintained.
it seems very illegal to me since it is probably being used for high schools and lower, so it's being used to spy on minors in the guise of "anti cheat" plus they don't seem to understand that some people have multiple computers so if the really want to they can hide the other one in like the bathroom or something and look up the answers when they go to use the restroom
me, creating a small os capable only of opening 10 tabs, so that when the anti-cheat software tries to start it just doesnt work (no i cant make an os and my school does not have an anti-cheat system, also i just look for the answers in books instead of looking on the web)
If ads were put on EVERYTHING, then the prices of old retro gaming consoles and games would SKYROCKET because there wouldn’t be ads on a GAME BOY ADVANCE SCREEN
Place gets rid of seats to discourage homeless... Everyone else suffers. Meanwhile the homeless guy saved up two days worth of panhandling money for that folding camping chair he pulls from his sling bag. So how is that a win? People that deal with such B.S. all the time tend to find ways to cope, and those trying to do favors for everyone via adversarial methods aren't really helping anybody either.
It's a win for the governing officials that don't want people to notice that poverty and misery are still a thing, because then they don't need to actually solve homelessness
How about because they wanna throw anti-homeless designs everywhere? They ignore citizens with disability problems and refuse to realize citizens would like to sit comfortably as well.
i haven't seen that yet but it makes sense from a shit standpoint. nobody wants stuff physically delivered anymore and companies made a shit ton of money off of ridiculous delivery fees. i literally have not bought something because it didn't have a digital version (game, gift card etc..)
Since this is r/A*sholedesign based, may as well mention how Spotify's app when asking if you want to watch an ad for "30 minutes of no interruptions" (which is usually about 12-18 minutes max already) you have an option to click "no thanks". Spotify then proceeds to make you watch an unskippable 30 second to one minute ad, just to hear "enjoy your 30 minutes" for yet another 30 seconds even if you said "no thanks". That was a great use of an update to the software. update: instead of fixing it, they instead just removed the whole "no thanks" option all together. Alright then Spotify, makes total sense.
Spotify has only ever been a pain in the ass for me, never worked right, crashes all my Windows 10 computers, does not let me enjoy 30 minutes of uninterrupted music since it always gives me ads after 10 minutes -- SCREW YOU, SPOTIFY.
@@maia9471 Those aren't ads. They're malware. I use Windscibe vpn so I don't get them. It's free but there is a 10 gb monthly limit tho, a lot more than other free vpn. Who cares, my mobile data cap is already just 20 gb.
4:29 - I showed this to a friend of mine and he tells me that this is actually a federal offense. Charging a delivery fee for an item when no delivery system exists. Basically mail fraud. Comes with a potential $250,000 fine and up to 25 years in federal prison. Yeah, don't do this, guys :D
oh bookstore for college classes sends you a single paper to get around lovely things like this thru the college you're with. Bookstore loves to also give you coupons thru emails that arent actually valid coupons too, like they send out their own fake 50% off if you have a purchase of 100 dollars or higher coupons and when you go to redeem them straight from the email they send they say it's not an authentic code.
The USPS charges outrageous prices for post office boxes and then has the nerve to pack your box full of ads they are being paid for. I've gotten into the habit of taking those ads from them and shoving them into the mail slot. If you're going to force me to deal with it, I'm going to force you to deal with it. Don't like it? Stop shoving my box full of junk or reduce the cost of the box.
It's not really USPS's fault, they've been dealing with a major political party wanting to put them out of business for decades despite their Constitutional mandate. Write to your House Rep and tell them to repeal the requirement for USPS to have employee pensions fully funded for the next 50 years (I might be wrong about the exact number, you might want to check that). No other government agency is required to do that, it's just a ploy to make the USPS look like it's broke when it's not. Check out the video "Delivering our Democracy" by Knowing Better.
Also the fact that USPS loses so much money because of the deal some idiot/mischievous politician brokered with Amazon. I've got some friends and family working in USPS and they hate having to do it just as much as you. And despite that they are still kinda forced to send out carriers in 20+ year old vans (btw most don't even have air conditioning because of how long ago they were made)
If my teacher told me to use that dumb testing site I would just say that my computer said something like this app is insecure and cant be opened on this device, most teachers wouldn't know it was a lie.
Yeah, I told my kids school that they were not allowed to install any software on our home computers AND that I refused to sign any paperwork allowing the school to issue my children computers. Their school also really hates it when I tell them my 8 and 12 year old children are unable to sign any contract at all as they are not adults and cannot give informed consent.
Agreed. Homeless people have so little. Why take what little shelter and solace they have? Why not put the funding for making anti homeless measures and actually fucking help homeless people?
why wait? You could open up all of your private belongings and property to the homeless so they have a safe place to go. I mean, you wouldnt be so hateful and selfish as to live in relative luxury while the poor homeless folks around you suffer would you?! Of COURSE you are going to do anything and everything possible to ACTUALLY help them instead of making meaningless speeches on social media! You can change the world! I know you can! No inaction disguised as action! You can do it! Go make an ACTUAL difference in some homeless persons life!!!
@@andrewhinson4323 yeah no I’m sorry, but I’m just gonna tell you a flat truth. I am a selfish person that doesn’t want people to live on me or help them. I could probably do it if I really tried and prepared everything. But the equipment isn’t here for me and nobody changing for your ironically social media post.
7:49 the fact that they're messaging a breakfast deal suggests this was in the morning...if i had whatever e-doorbell thing this is and it woke me up with this shit, i would not be happy
That testing service is used at like every school I know of. It can see what’s going on with the other devices in your house too, and has remote access to basically everything on your computer. It is required for some online classes during the pandemic, so you couldn’t say no or else you’d fail your test. It has a 1 star review on chrome but schools still use it anyway :/
they wanted me too download it on my iPad for a test in school and I refused and demanded to use a school computer and you won't believe what they did they let me use the computer at school
It's nice to hear this finally being spoken out loud. TV used to be free. Why? The price was watching commercials. When cable came out, the big adverts were 'watch TV with NO COMMERCIALS". Now I pay Comcast for the internet AND RUclips so I can watch commercials. I even get text commercials/ads now.
Always has been since capitalism by definition is geared towards making as much money as possible at any price, if you had to pay to live each minute they would do it as nothing matters in capitalism only profits
Capitalism sucks, but it's not as bad as the other two options. A mixture is the best way, but all the communists will cry capitalism and all the capitalists will scream communism
Reminds me of when I was playing a "free" mobile game where your character was in a band. I got to a part where I had to get another band member to continue, but the game designed it so I wouldn't have enough coins to get another band member without purchasing more coins. Nope, I just deleted the game instead.
The Norton thing reminded me about how someone once called me and tried to sell me ID protection insurance and when I declined he basically threatened me with something along the lines of "Well if you dont buy our insurance and end up victim to ID theft then you're out of luck" lmao
8:45 "Figured out how to get rid of it, though" And you're not gonna tell us? Robin please tell me how I'd trust you over some random RUclips tutorial.
I needed to print something out, but the printer that we bought with OUR OWN MONEY said that our online subscription to the website ran out, so I couldn't print out my notes for school
@@theimortal1974 Yeah don't buy HP inkjet printers ever for any reason, they literally disable their own physical hardware if they can't verify that you've paid your ink subscription. Some people have found ways to disable or trick the chips/sensors/whatever on some of the models but it's not easy. Their laserjet models aren't bad but toner is insanely expensive and wastes tons of plastic. Brother and Canon are good, Epson is cheap and finicky but at least they let you, you know, use the hardware you paid for, plus they make models you can refill with actual ink bottles. (Source: I work in tech support and deal with printers on a daily basis lol.)
Its worse when you have a game bombarding you with unskippable ads every 5 seconds and when you get sick of it and turn off your wifi knowing it's still playable off wifi. But then the game somehow still gives you ads
The only mobile game that I think did ads well is the battle cats. Their “ads” are occasional limited content for another game. Also, I have a way of avoiding ads for most mobile games. Airplane mode. Ads usually require internet connection, so that can’t play if you temporarily sever it
@@sapphireclawe Unless if you using that airplane mode from the start of the game. I mean, seriously, does mobile game company think to themselves and say "Let's add this ad into our application files so that they can be played offline, even though there is a chance for them to stop paying ads in our application, and let the games still playing ads just to piss off the player?" If there is a application like that, search another game please
@@MartinHutasoit09 There's a number of games like this, it's usually in the cached data and such. And I'm pretty sure that 90% of the purpose of these ads are to get it stuck so far in people's heads that they will play it when they're bored. It preys on ADHD and boredom. Plus the games advertised are 99.99% bullshit anyways or the same okay game reskinned for the sake of making more money.
Don’t let the game use your cellular connection and you can just turn off WiFi, won’t load ads and if someone tries to call or text you you’ll still get it.
14:20 I don't know if it's just where I've lived, but the benches in some bus stop shelters are slanted (and narrow af) so you can't even sit on them (you just kinda lean and slide off every few seconds) and that was my first encounter of "so the homeless can't sleep on them" and I just remember I was shocked - no, more than anything, I was just...confounded. Like why? Am I missing something? In a place where the buses stop at 8 does someone sleeping in a bus shelter bother anyone? And for that I'm having to do this awkward work out instead of actually resting while I wait? Then of course there's the divided benches, but you can at least sit on those. Robin is right though. Screw it.
imagine saying this line: "we removed the WHOLE BUS STOP so the ugly idiot homeless can't sleep not my problem is theirs" to someone just imagine someone saying that
I was reading a news article that had ads for other articles on it, and one of them was for "Top 10 worst colleges in the US. {Your state} was definitely the worst." ...but I live in Canada and it put the name of my province instead XD instantly new it was fake.
9:35 ahh, yes. Lockdown browser. Before the pandemic the occasional online class required it, but didn't require use of the webcam. Still, the other problems were there so I'd go to Walmart, buy a new laptop, use it with that, return and repeat until the semester was over. That protected my computer at least. With the new webcam requirements? Well, I actually read the terms of service and basically they are recording the student spaces to be used in building an AI anti-cheat system and although the terms of service lets the school request deletion of data, it doesn't let the students do it and even if the school did request it it's also going through the same system that Amazon uses for building its facial recognition system meaning that the damage is done regardless so I have to make a point to avoid any of those classes in their entirety which hasn't been easy. I had one class that I was nearly through with and in the last part of the semester they decided they were going to start using lockdown browser with webcam for the final exam only and I dropped a class I was passing entirely because I wasn't going to put up with that BS.
@@EnderKittynet (late) Yes it does. My college uses it and I have a webcam cover on my laptop. I went through the pre-setup for a test and flipped the cover over my webcam, and it full on stopped my test and refused to let me finish unless I unblocked my webcam and put my face in view.
Fun fact: Using Hulu on a Pc or laptop causes the ads to be shorter, as long as your on the website on google. Why? Because apparently, Hulu assumes your Pc is slow no mater what and will always show more ads on a gaming console.
The oculus one could easily be solved in like at least 2 or 3 steps: 1. Take off the velcro (somehow) 2. Get a new piece of velcro 3. hot glue/sew on the new piece of velcro
nah just replace your entire vr headset because its easier to get a new headset than to tie some other velcro onto your old headset and a pair of goggles that literally makes you feel as if you are in an alternate reality is totally cheaper than sewn fruit barbs
I once accidentally entered a website for an antivirus protection software and it legit forced its way onto my computer and has been bombarding me with useless things, I tried to get rid of it but its saying i need to pay $20 JUST TO REMOVE IT. I’m convinced that it’s just a straight up virus pretending to me an antivirus software.
"oh we got rid of benches to prevent the homeless from sleeping on them, we're not sorry" You could just put benches that fold into the wall and lock them with a key to have a similar outcome...then again I can imagine a line of homeless people waiting for benches to open just to sleep
My gran used to work at a train station, and the homeless would come in *the night before new years* to get some warmth. They weren't loud. They didn't do drugs while there, they didn't bother anyone. They just sat by a heater so they wouldn't bloody die. The cops came to try and toss them out for "disturbing the public peace". My gran kicked the cops out and said she'd call if there was any trouble. The homeless guys didn't make any trouble. Later *that same day* a gang of hooligans came in with a *clearly* stolen check from a business for about $50, and wanted *one* train ticket, one stop over, which came to about 40 cents, their plan, obviously, was to get the other $49.60 in cash. When my gran refused, and told them the check was stolen, and none of them could agree who actually needed the train ticket (not a well thought out plan), they started to get threatening and loud, scaring my gran, who was 21 at the time. Enter the hobos from before. Seeing the nice young lady being threatened, they tossed the mean kids out, and later, when closing time came, they *escorted* my gran to the safe deposit box, so she wouldn't get mugged. Society, and the powers in the cities in particular, need to stop seeing the homeless as less than human just because they don't have a roof over their heads.
In some parts of Germany, we use benches with arm rests between seats, so you can do nothing else but sit. But then again, if they can't sleep on benches, the'll sleep on the ground. Instead of taking away what little they have, cities and communities should build them shelters and control them on a regularly basis for misuse, drug consumption and violence. But that would obviously be too noble.
@@MoonshineTora Thanks for opening my eyes. I always found those armrests a bit useless but I nevet realized they're there to prevent people from sleeping there.
@@alienrat-z3g If benches don't have armrests, then they are formed or "designed" in a way that makes them utterly uncomfortable. To appease the volk they call them "art". Benches are uncomfortable for another reason: Especially in countries where drinking alcohol in public isn't forbidden, they prevent alcoholics and "delinquents" to linger around in the city centres being a nuisance for the common folk. Mayors can be sht-heads.
There's also a difference between a free program having ads and a free program having ads implemented in a such a way it inhibits your ability to use the program as you wanted.
The warranty sticker doesn't not matter They act as if it does You gotta tell them Or show them if they don't realize it Is the warranty sticker is meant to scare you I tear them off everything and I continually get my warranty & Norton security is worse than default windows security And takes up way too much of your computer's resources, Slows downloads It's not even the worst antivirus
I can't say for sure it was orchestrated by Norton but when I was a kid, I accidently got a virus on my mom's computer that completely took over the computer, and changed the backgroup to yellow with black lettering and the Norton logo saying that if we don't download and pay for the premium subscription then the computer will remain locked. The only website you could go to with Norton, well supposedly. It had to be completely reformatted before we could use it again. Ever since then, I've been very suspicious.
@@GAT-X-K9 American liberals are turning a fight to dismantle an unjust hierarchy of genders into "but what if the oppressor is _female,_ though? #girlboss!", and i _hate_ it
Then they will go back to see that and think, "wow men are really against progress" but fail to see they gave no real options in their poll other than the two extremes.
Interesting fact: windows defender is better than most antivirus software you can install, not *THAT MUCH* instrusive, and comes included in windows 10, aka basically free Another fun fact if you don't use windows: *nix systems when kept up to date (macos included) don't even need that much because as long as you don't elevate random software to root they can't do any meaningful harm to your system besides basically whatever is in your home directory Conclusion: don't waste your time or money on antivirus
@@arandompersonp6930 I think the right word would have been disruptive but it's still not that much intrusive either compared with some of the other antivirus software
The sad part about today's games is that they would probably make more money if they made an actually good game these days because putting any ounce of effort in would make it the best game ever made by default
actually, someone did a video on it, if i remember correctly making 1 or 2 good mobile games was around the same if not LESS profit than churning out like 50-100 awful cash grabby mobile games
Well, Minecraft proves your point about good games being the best ever. Also, there are some gems that aren’t very popular. My favorite game right now is Scrap Mechanic. It takes some Minecraft concepts, and adds gameplay I’ve always wanted but never could work the way Minecraft is. Unfortunately, the devs are out of touch with the community and seem to focus on new content more than fixing the major bugs and performance issues.
Avast slowed my PC down so much it took like a full minute to open chrome. 10 minutes to open a game and 5 for every loading screen. Everything worked relatively fine when Avast was off. All hail Eset!
Based on the fact that the founder of Dollar Shave Club graduated from a rich white private school, it doesn’t surprise me that he made the razor bases different.
1:35 A 7th grade science teacher showed this to my class in a graph a unit to show how graphs can be made to manipulate. I still don’t really get what that had to do with science but she seemed like a smart person.
It’s likely just because a lot of data is shown in graphs and they were probably trying to help you guys recognize when a study is not being truthful and is instead manipulating its audience. Also to make sure you guys graph things correctly.
This! I make it a POINT to downvote a video if shit like that pops up. If i like the content, i'm gonna subscribe, hate when creators belittle the viewer with shit like that
12:03 not “against progress” but against giving the American people their freedoms that they preach so much about. Also very heavily going against anti-discrimination law violations
9:33 Thats easy to get around. Set up an VM used only for School stuff, there is a lot of good software that you can use legally for free. Now all this software can access is the almost empty VM, no further worries about your privacy necessary. Obviously this can also be used for cheating, but cheating is even easier then this, just google the questions on your phone. This type of software can be usefull in a classroom, where pupils don´t have enough rights to easily and fast outtrick the software and a teacher constantly watches every pupil to make sure no one cheats with his phone. I don´t know what makes me more angry, teacher that disrespect their pupils privacy, or teacher that are so stupid to think this software could actually prevent anyone from cheating. I mean how is someone so stupid supposed to teach anything?
@@frankyboy1385 This also violates COPPA as well as the 4th amendment in the US, them doing that shit is a very big no-no in any setting regardless. Edit: also think it overlaps with some things from HIPPA as well but idk
@@lingrahso4960 - HIPPA laws only apply to medical facilities and any place you give your medical information to. Schools do fall under such, however unless the teacher/school is sharing such information then no breach is taking place.
5:52 they were apparently caught in their little scheme. "Apparently", being I manually searched for the site, typed in "defective lithium polymer"¹, and got no results. ¹In case you don't know, lithium polymer batteries can be very hazardous if handled improperly.
My school does things like when it gives us real sheets of paper they will have links they expect us to memorise and then can't be bothered to use word properly when giving us homework.
Ati-homeless architecture? One homeless guy in our town is on another level. He used an old tent and abondened boat, and now he has nice shelter. This mad lad lives in the middle of a river.
5:05 what you do is get yourself a pitcher of ice water. Soak a string in alcohol and tie it around the glass bottle near the top. Light the string on fire and let it burn for a bit. Then, pour the pitcher of ice water over the bottle. The sudden shift in temperature will cause the glass to break cleanly where the burning string was tied. You probably still won't be able to get the bottle out, but you should be able to shift it just enough to enable you to pour the contents out into another container.
@@ElectronicInspiration most people have string, alcohol and water though. And even if I they didn't, they'd probably be more willing to go out and buy them. Not everyone has an angle grinder or would be willing to buy one just for this purpose.
@@speakofthedevil3216 Well, the burning string trick still has a decent chance of either not working, burning you, or shattering the glass bottle. Maybe you could borrow an angle grinder off of your neighbor or something. "My dumb ass relative welded my gift shut. Can I borrow your angle grinder?" Most decent people would agree around here at least.
The Hulu one didn't make any sense to me. A lot of streaming services like that simply the number of people able to stream the service in question using a single account at a time. Where as Hulu seems to have to be extra and tie the account to a specific IP for no apparent reason honestly. Oh and the textbook one has always infuriated me. I don't get why they charge so damn much for an unbound version of the book. Using very flimsy paper that has the holes punched near the damn edge, which means pages can easily tear out if your not careful, or you have a bad binder. Like companies are just cutting as many corners as they can, and it's getting frustrating.
@@MushookieMan Even flipped, it shows that gun deaths were reduced. Went from 873 to 721, with a massive increase in population. Stand your ground isn't designed to prevent gun deaths anyway, it's to allow a person to defend their life if someone is trying to take it. Not all "Gun deaths" were necessarily a crime against an innocent person. Many are cases of self-defense.
I once got a Korean version of Tom Sawyer as a gift from a friend. I was learning Korean at the time and only noticed after a few pages that something felt really odd. Turns out, someone had just put the original book or something through google translate and started selling it on amazon....
The homeless thing is just bruh, I'm a Christian who's heart breaks for those people! It hurts my soul when people are mean to them for the sake of it, people practically discriminate against them in such a way where there is no fair way to police it-literally the only thing we can do is boycott the business that does that crap, I get it if they are taking up space for hours but you could ju st do nothing and make people's lives better.
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Remember: don’t hate the people who pay for the ads. Hate the people who design how the adds work.
Unless it’s both made by the same person.
Ye Steve mah boi
Thanks Steve
*ads
Your a great role model Steve
@@Podgamezz doing that is exactly why you don't have any likes
The leg advertisement is illegal because the person gives no consent to the company for use of their limbs, they do not pay for your limbs, so they can’t use it
Be happy is a bot
@@grimreaper7303 ik
Watch them have some bullshit like you give consent by sitting.
i mean it seems dishonest but i dont think its illegal? you choose to sit there nobody is forcing you to sit on that bench. probably gonna be new laws just because of that bullshit
@@ro-337 "bullshit" no its not like its invisible, you can see the ingraving, you do give consent by sitting down, its not your right to sit down.
Anti-homeless architecture is so dystopian. "We don't want our richer citizens to see the gross poor so we will spend money to push them away instead of working to fix the problems that cause so much poverty." Those YA novels are seeming more and more realistic
Getting closer and closer to City 17...
Few weeks ago I've seen a picture of a bench with spikes. You had to pay money to remove the spikes for some time. Defensive Architecture is fun :)
soon we will be living in almost 1984 levels of dystopian just saying...
@@kile1343 bruh while this is sad, I can't stop laughing at the prospect of what will happen when the time runs out and you're still sitting on it 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@dataexpunged6969 Probably feels like stepping on a Lego
That $5 delivery fee is for digital textbooks from UofL. The "delivery" is an email...
@One Guy Named Ivan It might just be because I'm half sleepy but what
111 likes
nice
@One Guy Named Ivan capitalism is a broken system by design
Yep, my school uses the same system
i mean i wouldnt jump on the wagon that fast, keeping up servers etc costs money you know. But i mean 5 bucks for it is kinda strange i guess.
Here's a fun one for you:
The radio ad for Swiffer that says "wow look how much it picked up!"
It's a freaking radio ad. I can't see it.
More of a facepalm in that case.
Yeah, but you've likely seen the commercial a hundred times since you were a kid and can picture it. I believe it's called brand implantation or something like that. Same tactic used with candy cigarettes, and why most places don't sell them anymore.
it lets you imagine how much its really picking up, so you think its picking up more because of the reactions of the people. (just my thoughts, nothing to back this up)
As someone living in Germany, its really horible how they try and handle digitalization here. Most of the legal stuff has to be done with letter or fax. Most companies don't want Emails because they're "not safe" because they don't wanna pay for online security. Most schools still have really old projectors and if they have classes with PCs, the computers are old and barely able to run Word and Excel. I could go on and on and on about this. We really don't handle this whole tech thing the right way, especially because Germany is a rather traditional country, even though it doesn't seem like that at first glance. Many people don't even wanna learn how to speak english, they don't want websites or anything internet related at all. I really do hope that this changes in the future, but that's something not many people outside of Germany actually know about and it surprises me because it's a day to day thing for someone like me.
Don't digitalize, there are American backdoors in pretty much every computer, except for some Chinese ones.
@@0x8badf00d and that's the reason my country can't move forward. I couldn't say it better!
so belgium, a country that just is full of junky's corruption and cant even have a good preportion of etchnicity share goverment, is FAR AHEAD that a country wich is the richest in europe, competing with china, but cant afford some decent fucking computers?
@@BlueSodaPop_ also im sorry you have shit schools, i hope you succeed in life
@@GameyCat yes. Yes, yes, yes! It sounds ridiculous, doesn't it? But it's actually easy to understand why: Most of the population of Germany is old. Like, really, really old. The school system is horrible, it still works like the one we had a hundred years ago and because the old people are in charge, there is NO CHANGE! They make it that young people can't get invested in politics, which means that the old people have control over all of the laws. It's so stupid and embarrassing that it kinda hurts. I didn't learn English in school. I learned everything on the internet because after seven years of English classes we recently started learning about the simple past. I can't- I'm sorry, I'm getting really tense right now xD I just want people to know that this country full of ingenuity and money isn't able to move forward because the old people don't want things to change. It almost hurts seeing that nothing is able to move on.
That Hulu one got on my nerves cause families and friends sharing accounts is the equivalent of lending someone a book you checked out. It's not illegal and streaming services are only mad cause they can't make more money. I paid for the service, let me use it how I want.
Instead of hoping they will change, make them change with your wallet, and cancel subscriptions to shitty services alltogether!
Greedy companies only understand profits dropping massively, not our hopes and wishes.
@@Zorander. Yeah. I dropped Hulu a while ago. My mom got the ad version and it was so annoying so I just asked her to drop it. If there's anything on there I want to see, I usually just use my sister's friend's acc
They’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Libraries would be shut down if they were built in the modern era.
Netflix has just crashed accounts that share like ten hours to load and you can only watch 2 episodes
And this is why piracy exists, although i dont like piracy but if i cant use something how i like legally then illegal is the option
Ok, the bottle one is a scam, but having some inside knowledge of the packaging industry, there *is* a scenario where it's not quite as scammy as it looks.
See, plastics today have multiple layers. You have layers for strength, impermeability, and printability. Even a seemingly simple plastic bag may have as many as 12 layers. What they *might* have done here is take the plastic bottle and skipped a few layers and used a paper shell. But... I doubt it.
but they are still liars nonetheless.
That is exactly what they do tho. Some companies (at least in my country) legit skip the layers you're talking about and wrap it in paper. So every product has at least 40% less plastic. It's hard to judge if the pic in the video is one of those sincere companies.
Quite a few of these make sense if you understand the industry, eg the digital fee being present because it costs money to host files on a server.
@@trianglemoebius just include server fees in the pricing.
"Not only is the sticker illegal but stuck by a screw"
The designer: must let everyone know it's my original design!!!!
Hey at least whoever did it will be in prison
Im think its funny that some person probably making minimum wage put on the sticker before the screw and just thought I dont get paid enough for this shit and did it anyways.
Have a bad time kid
@W33d Senpai he is a bot
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Another bs thing about text books without binding is that the school book store won't buy them back from you because they aren't bound. Like I had a choice to begin with.
ilove bigbrother because one, in a goofy two shoes, and two I didn't know it would of been unbound until I got it. It didn't exactly give me that detail I. The description when I ordered, and three I didn't know I could potentially do that and now I'm going into my last semester of school in the fall for student teaching. I most likely will not have to buy any more books unless I am to actually use them for student teaching or my future career.
There are shops that can bind books for you, which you usually need for your master's thesis. However, I'm not sure whether that's actually more expensive than what you'd get back from the book store.
@@anlumo1 you never get back what you spent on new books. In fact buying new is just about a scam given when you sell the book's back, they buy them for stupid cheap, then turn around and rent them for quite a bit more than they paid for. So not only did they profit from selling you the book, their now profiting from renting the books out. I rent books when I can now, just because it's so much less expensive, and I don't have to worry about getting a book they'll never buy back and will mean it's collecting dust. With the latter being going through the hassle of selling the book to someone, and pretty much getting nothing but a bismal return for the book m
How is that bs? They can’t buy a book where it’s impossible to know if al the pages are even there. Whether you had a choice or not isn’t particularly relevant.
@@JasperJanssen watch me remove pages and then bind it and sell it fool.
Lexi: Tries to keep it as family friendly as possible
Robin: *_ARE YOU ACTUALLY FU-_*
Remember the time Lexi had a mental breakdown and said fuck multiple times?
@@CCAfton-bg1ks when?
@@1Lazarus I think it was in r/TIHI or r/oddlyterrifying
I still can’t say TIHI without saying TeeHee
@@CCAfton-bg1ks ok
Schools don’t care about privacy 🤠
Last year, my school used teams for online class, and sometimes we had to work in groups in so called “breakout rooms”. Later, we found out that the teachers STILL COULD HEAR US even when we thought we were alone in the call. We also found out that they could read our private messages on teams. They said that they didn’t do that if there wasn’t a reason for that, but still. I don’t know what else they can get to know about us without us knowing. I really considered sueing them, but i didn’t. Schools are control freaks
YES AND ANOTHER THING TO ADD TO THIS! so rn i'm in my 2 quarter of school and me and my friends were chilling in the bathrooms after drama practice and changing out of our costumes for an upcoming play when one of us notices that on the door frames in EACH OF THE STALLS one of the screws is missing and to check something my friend had the idea of taking a picture with the flash on to see if there was a reflection, incase you didn't know you can take a picture of a "hidden" camera like the replaced screw in my case and if there is a reflection then it's most likely a camera, well it was, AND GUESS WHAT I DID! YEAH that's right i told every single one of my friends and got them to tell as many people as they could AND THEY CLOSED THE BATHROOM FOR A WEEK AND TOOK OUT THE CAMERAS! As someone who's been in strange situations with people looking at me as a homosexual who was a girl this bothered me but i'm glad that we got rid of them, also i believe there were some on my other friends hall to but i'm not sure.
Wait, my school uses teams, they can actually do that? Holy shit. If they actually checked what I was saying during group work.....
@@teamof2 It depends on the school of course, but yea. It's pretty scary
If our teachers have been reading our teams messages, I’m surprised half my friend group hasn’t been suspended lmao.
thank you for overstating the obvious in the last sentence
“robin, the dumb one”
*bonk*
i just hit you with the stupid dumb wrong spoon.
@be happy leave this place
@@AmTack yes
@be happy bot
@be happy I will NOT be happy >:(
*ruclips.net/video/Zgc0Tts6n7Q/видео.html*
Imagine if Emkay: The Movie was real and Zach and Damien came back to record for it
I’d pay good money to see that
@@tartypartyharty me too me too
Wait, what happened to zack and damian?
@@tartypartyharty same
@@mitchellmifflin4392 they left for their own channels. I’ll put the links
Yes norton, i'd rather have adware on my pc than an anti virus that does fuckall and eats 70% of my ram when i use it
That and they have the AUDACITY to ask youtubers if they can sponsor them 🤦
@Aiden Charles Arthur Smawfield I've seen a few such as I am Wildcat and Leveluplifting be sponsored by Norton. But, its rare as rocking horse to find a Norton 365 sponsor
Damn, you had kaspersky to as well didn’t you?
and you can't uninstall it
Leave no system resources left for those pesky viruses.
Tinder: An app designed, and utilised, almost exclusively around hookup culture, doesn't understand basic consent.
Reminder: if a company is doing bullshit like this, you can stop giving them your money to help tear them down.
Consumer power feels akin to a sheep charging at the sheepdog, but fuck it, I'd like to see one stand up to an entire flock. Spend wisely, and take NO shit from multi-billion pound companies.
But hey, at least I got the brand mark on my thighs to remember them by
Eh if I like their product I honestly don’t care. Maybe that makes me a bad person, I don’t really know. But I’m not gonna stop myself from consuming a product I enjoy just because I’m petty and didn’t like a piece of scummy marketing they did. Companies are gonna advertise and I don’t blame them, to them it’s just business.
@@Dog-ml2rh unless they make you pay $18 to watch one season of a tv show
@@DenvaProbablyDraws Well in the case if you have other options with different providers than yeah of course I’ll do whatever’s more cost efficient, but I’m talking about more of a product.
The anti-homeless thing is actually scary to me. Like, this is where our society is heading? To destroy those who need help instead of actually helping them? Weird story, but it’s even worse for me because I imagined these anti-homeless scenarios WAY before they started happening, as a kid with a villain that wanted to eliminate homeless people to make a “perfect” city. I was 6.
I see Apollo has gifted you prophet
lol Marvel's new villain: "The HOMELESS Killer"
People want to ignore the homelessness epidemic by forcing homeless people to hide instead of actually treating the problem. Somehow we've convinced ourselves that the homeless are an enemy and that we could never end up like them.
There are more empty housing units than homeless in the US. Yet billionaires pay almost nothing in taxes, while the department of "justice" focusses on the leakers instead of the problem. We truly like in a messed up country.
gonna have to agree with you bud
That school system app one which uses countless "anti cheat" measures shows every school should not be given this Software so that privacy should be maintained.
it seems very illegal to me since it is probably being used for high schools and lower, so it's being used to spy on minors in the guise of "anti cheat" plus they don't seem to understand that some people have multiple computers so if the really want to they can hide the other one in like the bathroom or something and look up the answers when they go to use the restroom
me, creating a small os capable only of opening 10 tabs, so that when the anti-cheat software tries to start it just doesnt work (no i cant make an os and my school does not have an anti-cheat system, also i just look for the answers in books instead of looking on the web)
If ads were put on EVERYTHING, then
the prices of old retro gaming consoles and games would SKYROCKET because there wouldn’t be ads on a GAME BOY ADVANCE SCREEN
Place gets rid of seats to discourage homeless... Everyone else suffers. Meanwhile the homeless guy saved up two days worth of panhandling money for that folding camping chair he pulls from his sling bag. So how is that a win? People that deal with such B.S. all the time tend to find ways to cope, and those trying to do favors for everyone via adversarial methods aren't really helping anybody either.
*i know let's put a short shorts advertisement on the camping chair*
chillll im joking
It's a win for the governing officials that don't want people to notice that poverty and misery are still a thing, because then they don't need to actually solve homelessness
Wanna knoe whats even more disgusting? The statistic of how many of the homeless is war veterans....
@@yopassthefuckinsalt922 this. If you make sure nobody can see them, surely they aren’t there.
How about because they wanna throw anti-homeless designs everywhere? They ignore citizens with disability problems and refuse to realize citizens would like to sit comfortably as well.
Y’all should make an uncensored version of this, I wanna hear robin go ape sh*t over a digital delivery fee.
i haven't seen that yet but it makes sense from a shit standpoint. nobody wants stuff physically delivered anymore and companies made a shit ton of money off of ridiculous delivery fees. i literally have not bought something because it didn't have a digital version (game, gift card etc..)
DEMONETISED
Same like a patreon i would buy
All this and more on the next episode of: Why It's Better To Pirate Everything
Yup, usually I will only buy digital things that were actually worth it
Imagine paying for something and still getting ads. Also, geo-blocking smh.
Pay for Indie content that needs the support, just not dickbag corporats worth billions.
I pirate every scooby doo series because i am not paying thousands of pounds just to watch scoobert doobert
Why have we reached a state where we need to steal to be able do anything peacefuly
Once again I am reminded of how many legal protections we have here as Australian consumers and why business is so hell bent on taking them out.
Since this is r/A*sholedesign based, may as well mention how Spotify's app when asking if you want to watch an ad for "30 minutes of no interruptions" (which is usually about 12-18 minutes max already) you have an option to click "no thanks". Spotify then proceeds to make you watch an unskippable 30 second to one minute ad, just to hear "enjoy your 30 minutes" for yet another 30 seconds even if you said "no thanks". That was a great use of an update to the software.
update: instead of fixing it, they instead just removed the whole "no thanks" option all together. Alright then Spotify, makes total sense.
SO TRUE, I BLOODY HATE THIS. THEY MAKE ME WATCH 5 ADS IN A ROW IF I SAY NO THANKS.
5.
ADS.
This is why I prefer downloading music. Apple users about to go ham on this one.
To be fair though, it's not always an ideal option.
Fuck Spotify, seriously. They went from an alternative to pirating music to a justifiable reason to download entire albums.
Spotify has only ever been a pain in the ass for me, never worked right, crashes all my Windows 10 computers, does not let me enjoy 30 minutes of uninterrupted music since it always gives me ads after 10 minutes -- SCREW YOU, SPOTIFY.
I have Spotify and whenever I get an ad, I close Spotify but then it remembers that, so when I play my next song it actually plays an ad immediately
Free sites and ads are fine, but when they cover up the entire window? Oh yikes.
or even worse, they open new tabs and take you to 5 different websites.
@@maia9471 oh nooo not those ones
@@maia9471 Those aren't ads. They're malware. I use Windscibe vpn so I don't get them. It's free but there is a 10 gb monthly limit tho, a lot more than other free vpn. Who cares, my mobile data cap is already just 20 gb.
@@unliving_ball_of_gas I use Proton VPN and Brave Browser because I am broke
@@TypeKK Try windscribe then. It's free. If you look up for the best free vpn's you'll see it.
4:29 - I showed this to a friend of mine and he tells me that this is actually a federal offense. Charging a delivery fee for an item when no delivery system exists. Basically mail fraud. Comes with a potential $250,000 fine and up to 25 years in federal prison. Yeah, don't do this, guys :D
Which country and if the US is it federal or state?
Oh wait I'm an idiot you said federal lol
oh bookstore for college classes sends you a single paper to get around lovely things like this thru the college you're with. Bookstore loves to also give you coupons thru emails that arent actually valid coupons too, like they send out their own fake 50% off if you have a purchase of 100 dollars or higher coupons and when you go to redeem them straight from the email they send they say it's not an authentic code.
someone rename this subreddit to
"r/awaitinglawsuits"
"If you're advertising on _my_ body, I better be getting paid for it!"
PREACH ROBIN
The USPS charges outrageous prices for post office boxes and then has the nerve to pack your box full of ads they are being paid for. I've gotten into the habit of taking those ads from them and shoving them into the mail slot. If you're going to force me to deal with it, I'm going to force you to deal with it. Don't like it? Stop shoving my box full of junk or reduce the cost of the box.
It's not really USPS's fault, they've been dealing with a major political party wanting to put them out of business for decades despite their Constitutional mandate. Write to your House Rep and tell them to repeal the requirement for USPS to have employee pensions fully funded for the next 50 years (I might be wrong about the exact number, you might want to check that). No other government agency is required to do that, it's just a ploy to make the USPS look like it's broke when it's not. Check out the video "Delivering our Democracy" by Knowing Better.
Also the fact that USPS loses so much money because of the deal some idiot/mischievous politician brokered with Amazon. I've got some friends and family working in USPS and they hate having to do it just as much as you.
And despite that they are still kinda forced to send out carriers in 20+ year old vans (btw most don't even have air conditioning because of how long ago they were made)
If my teacher told me to use that dumb testing site I would just say that my computer said something like this app is insecure and cant be opened on this device, most teachers wouldn't know it was a lie.
School issued computers don't give you that option
@@mirraisnow6050 The school computer won't connect to my home's router.
Yeah, I told my kids school that they were not allowed to install any software on our home computers AND that I refused to sign any paperwork allowing the school to issue my children computers.
Their school also really hates it when I tell them my 8 and 12 year old children are unable to sign any contract at all as they are not adults and cannot give informed consent.
"You just shatter the bottle"
My dear..thats a crown royal bottle. That shatters hammers
If I had my way, anti-homeless architecture would be illegal.
Agreed. Homeless people have so little. Why take what little shelter and solace they have? Why not put the funding for making anti homeless measures and actually fucking help homeless people?
It should be illegal.
@Gary Miller does your front porch have an full shelter and food dispensary?
why wait? You could open up all of your private belongings and property to the homeless so they have a safe place to go. I mean, you wouldnt be so hateful and selfish as to live in relative luxury while the poor homeless folks around you suffer would you?! Of COURSE you are going to do anything and everything possible to ACTUALLY help them instead of making meaningless speeches on social media! You can change the world! I know you can! No inaction disguised as action! You can do it! Go make an ACTUAL difference in some homeless persons life!!!
@@andrewhinson4323 yeah no I’m sorry, but I’m just gonna tell you a flat truth. I am a selfish person that doesn’t want people to live on me or help them. I could probably do it if I really tried and prepared everything. But the equipment isn’t here for me and nobody changing for your ironically social media post.
7:49 the fact that they're messaging a breakfast deal suggests this was in the morning...if i had whatever e-doorbell thing this is and it woke me up with this shit, i would not be happy
@be happy Can You Stop? Nobody Cares About The Stupid Link
You wake me up to a threat of breakfast invasions, I start a diet. No exceptions.
@@mackimooandfriends4812 can i ask what it is?
@@elzack6433 Just Don’t Tap/Click It, It’s A Bot Link
@@mackimooandfriends4812 what is the link? (I do not want to be rick rolled ok?)
That testing service is used at like every school I know of. It can see what’s going on with the other devices in your house too, and has remote access to basically everything on your computer. It is required for some online classes during the pandemic, so you couldn’t say no or else you’d fail your test. It has a 1 star review on chrome but schools still use it anyway :/
What software is it anyway?
@@Max128ping it’s called Honorlock
Just read the website and I am really sorry for the people who have to deal with this
they wanted me too download it on my iPad for a test in school and I refused and demanded to use a school computer and you won't believe what they did
they let me use the computer at school
if my school saw some of the shit some kids watch they’d have a seizure
It's nice to hear this finally being spoken out loud. TV used to be free. Why? The price was watching commercials. When cable came out, the big adverts were 'watch TV with NO COMMERCIALS". Now I pay Comcast for the internet AND RUclips so I can watch commercials. I even get text commercials/ads now.
"Spending $2,500 on a Samsung TV doesn't create them enough revenue."
Samsung Sam: *Allow me to introduce myself.*
@be happy bot
Flagged him for spam
@@frankyboy1385 Thanks
@@frankyboy1385 Same.
@@frankyboy1385 thanks,will do too
This went from "oh those assholes" to " capitalism is doomed to become a dystopia" really fast
haha thats what the people of the future will say if we make it that far
Always has been since capitalism by definition is geared towards making as much money as possible at any price, if you had to pay to live each minute they would do it as nothing matters in capitalism only profits
Capitalism never was the answer, and the fact that the governments are letting this happen makes them just as corrupt and terrible as the businesses.
@@skelestache7281 nothing is the answer, we haven’t found it yet. There never has been an "answer” Nothings perfect, never will be.
Capitalism sucks, but it's not as bad as the other two options. A mixture is the best way, but all the communists will cry capitalism and all the capitalists will scream communism
Reminds me of when I was playing a "free" mobile game where your character was in a band. I got to a part where I had to get another band member to continue, but the game designed it so I wouldn't have enough coins to get another band member without purchasing more coins. Nope, I just deleted the game instead.
The Norton thing reminded me about how someone once called me and tried to sell me ID protection insurance and when I declined he basically threatened me with something along the lines of "Well if you dont buy our insurance and end up victim to ID theft then you're out of luck" lmao
I appreciate how this subreddit evolved from "Well that's an obnoxious logo" to "You can sue for this."
Man I remember laughing at the stupid logos and designs and now it’s just making me angry with the newer stuff
8:45 "Figured out how to get rid of it, though"
And you're not gonna tell us? Robin please tell me how I'd trust you over some random RUclips tutorial.
fiddle around with taskbar settings. i literally did it on accident.
I needed to print something out, but the printer that we bought with OUR OWN MONEY said that our online subscription to the website ran out, so I couldn't print out my notes for school
wtf?
@@theimortal1974 Yeah don't buy HP inkjet printers ever for any reason, they literally disable their own physical hardware if they can't verify that you've paid your ink subscription. Some people have found ways to disable or trick the chips/sensors/whatever on some of the models but it's not easy. Their laserjet models aren't bad but toner is insanely expensive and wastes tons of plastic. Brother and Canon are good, Epson is cheap and finicky but at least they let you, you know, use the hardware you paid for, plus they make models you can refill with actual ink bottles.
(Source: I work in tech support and deal with printers on a daily basis lol.)
What? Is EA into printers now?!
Hp instant ink probably. The printer uses subscription printer ink cartridges that they remotely disable if you cancel the subscription. Complete BS.
yeah hp is the worst. switched to a laser printer about five years ago and never had any problems
Its worse when you have a game bombarding you with unskippable ads every 5 seconds and when you get sick of it and turn off your wifi knowing it's still playable off wifi. But then the game somehow still gives you ads
The only mobile game that I think did ads well is the battle cats. Their “ads” are occasional limited content for another game.
Also, I have a way of avoiding ads for most mobile games. Airplane mode. Ads usually require internet connection, so that can’t play if you temporarily sever it
This part has been old news for a while, but... mobile games will install ads for offline play nowadays. Airplane Mode does nothing.
@@sapphireclawe Unless if you using that airplane mode from the start of the game.
I mean, seriously, does mobile game company think to themselves and say "Let's add this ad into our application files so that they can be played offline, even though there is a chance for them to stop paying ads in our application, and let the games still playing ads just to piss off the player?"
If there is a application like that, search another game please
@@MartinHutasoit09 There's a number of games like this, it's usually in the cached data and such. And I'm pretty sure that 90% of the purpose of these ads are to get it stuck so far in people's heads that they will play it when they're bored. It preys on ADHD and boredom. Plus the games advertised are 99.99% bullshit anyways or the same okay game reskinned for the sake of making more money.
Don’t let the game use your cellular connection and you can just turn off WiFi, won’t load ads and if someone tries to call or text you you’ll still get it.
@@robertdevito5001 Ads are downloaded to your device, this isn't a fix at all.
14:20 I don't know if it's just where I've lived, but the benches in some bus stop shelters are slanted (and narrow af) so you can't even sit on them (you just kinda lean and slide off every few seconds) and that was my first encounter of "so the homeless can't sleep on them" and I just remember I was shocked - no, more than anything, I was just...confounded. Like why? Am I missing something? In a place where the buses stop at 8 does someone sleeping in a bus shelter bother anyone? And for that I'm having to do this awkward work out instead of actually resting while I wait? Then of course there's the divided benches, but you can at least sit on those. Robin is right though. Screw it.
imagine saying this line: "we removed the WHOLE BUS STOP so the ugly idiot homeless can't sleep not my problem is theirs" to someone just imagine someone saying that
WHAT IS THE POINT OF A BENCH YOU CAN'T SIT ON?!?!
Pregnant women trying to sit on them: 🗿
I was reading a news article that had ads for other articles on it, and one of them was for "Top 10 worst colleges in the US. {Your state} was definitely the worst." ...but I live in Canada and it put the name of my province instead XD instantly new it was fake.
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9:35 ahh, yes. Lockdown browser. Before the pandemic the occasional online class required it, but didn't require use of the webcam. Still, the other problems were there so I'd go to Walmart, buy a new laptop, use it with that, return and repeat until the semester was over. That protected my computer at least.
With the new webcam requirements? Well, I actually read the terms of service and basically they are recording the student spaces to be used in building an AI anti-cheat system and although the terms of service lets the school request deletion of data, it doesn't let the students do it and even if the school did request it it's also going through the same system that Amazon uses for building its facial recognition system meaning that the damage is done regardless so I have to make a point to avoid any of those classes in their entirety which hasn't been easy. I had one class that I was nearly through with and in the last part of the semester they decided they were going to start using lockdown browser with webcam for the final exam only and I dropped a class I was passing entirely because I wasn't going to put up with that BS.
I had to use Honorlock.
does it detect if you block or put tape over the webcam
@@EnderKittynet (late) Yes it does. My college uses it and I have a webcam cover on my laptop. I went through the pre-setup for a test and flipped the cover over my webcam, and it full on stopped my test and refused to let me finish unless I unblocked my webcam and put my face in view.
Fun fact: Using Hulu on a Pc or laptop causes the ads to be shorter, as long as your on the website on google. Why? Because apparently, Hulu assumes your Pc is slow no mater what and will always show more ads on a gaming console.
Ah, today I learned. No wonder my switch gets 2 minutes ads twice per episode.
i THOUGHT SO! i always suspected the ads were shorter on the computer. fuck, man
did they just insulted all PC gamers?
Another episode of: Corporation Rights aren’t Human Rights.
Corporations don’t deserve rights, period
@@eazy8579
Damn right.
Especially for refusing to recognizing the rights of their employees.
The oculus one could easily be solved in like at least 2 or 3 steps:
1. Take off the velcro (somehow)
2. Get a new piece of velcro
3. hot glue/sew on the new piece of velcro
The proper way is to take a seam ripper, remove the old straps, and replace them. The easy way is to sew that shit right in top
Scissors
nah just replace your entire vr headset because its easier to get a new headset than to tie some other velcro onto your old headset and a pair of goggles that literally makes you feel as if you are in an alternate reality is totally cheaper than sewn fruit barbs
@@blugy9988 ok u go pay 500 dollars just bc a Velcro strap is messed up
I once accidentally entered a website for an antivirus protection software and it legit forced its way onto my computer and has been bombarding me with useless things, I tried to get rid of it but its saying i need to pay $20 JUST TO REMOVE IT. I’m convinced that it’s just a straight up virus pretending to me an antivirus software.
"oh we got rid of benches to prevent the homeless from sleeping on them, we're not sorry"
You could just put benches that fold into the wall and lock them with a key to have a similar outcome...then again I can imagine a line of homeless people waiting for benches to open just to sleep
My gran used to work at a train station, and the homeless would come in *the night before new years* to get some warmth. They weren't loud. They didn't do drugs while there, they didn't bother anyone. They just sat by a heater so they wouldn't bloody die. The cops came to try and toss them out for "disturbing the public peace". My gran kicked the cops out and said she'd call if there was any trouble. The homeless guys didn't make any trouble. Later *that same day* a gang of hooligans came in with a *clearly* stolen check from a business for about $50, and wanted *one* train ticket, one stop over, which came to about 40 cents, their plan, obviously, was to get the other $49.60 in cash. When my gran refused, and told them the check was stolen, and none of them could agree who actually needed the train ticket (not a well thought out plan), they started to get threatening and loud, scaring my gran, who was 21 at the time. Enter the hobos from before. Seeing the nice young lady being threatened, they tossed the mean kids out, and later, when closing time came, they *escorted* my gran to the safe deposit box, so she wouldn't get mugged. Society, and the powers in the cities in particular, need to stop seeing the homeless as less than human just because they don't have a roof over their heads.
In some parts of Germany, we use benches with arm rests between seats, so you can do nothing else but sit.
But then again, if they can't sleep on benches, the'll sleep on the ground.
Instead of taking away what little they have, cities and communities should build them shelters and control them on a regularly basis for misuse, drug consumption and violence. But that would obviously be too noble.
@@MoonshineTora Thanks for opening my eyes. I always found those armrests a bit useless but I nevet realized they're there to prevent people from sleeping there.
@@alienrat-z3g If benches don't have armrests, then they are formed or "designed" in a way that makes them utterly uncomfortable. To appease the volk they call them "art". Benches are uncomfortable for another reason: Especially in countries where drinking alcohol in public isn't forbidden, they prevent alcoholics and "delinquents" to linger around in the city centres being a nuisance for the common folk.
Mayors can be sht-heads.
Hell I wouldn't be surprised if some places actually charge homeless people to sleep on their benches. Just to really kick them while they're down
Man, Superette really did make their adver"Thigh"sing be engraved onto human bodies.
There's also a difference between a free program having ads and a free program having ads implemented in a such a way it inhibits your ability to use the program as you wanted.
Norton's Subscription cancellation sounds like a toxic ex who can't handle you breaking up with them.
"Ready player one timelime"
Me who just watched the movie and payed no attention:
Wait what
Mr. be happy, shut up
@be happy shut up good music don’t self promo tho
I think it's more fitting to say an Ads R Us timeline, which is a great book about the future of advertising
in the movie they mention that IOI would use the Oasis as an advert platform, basically
The warranty sticker doesn't not matter They act as if it does You gotta tell them Or show them if they don't realize it Is the warranty sticker is meant to scare you I tear them off everything and I continually get my warranty & Norton security is worse than default windows security And takes up way too much of your computer's resources, Slows downloads It's not even the worst antivirus
Periods exist
@@idrovepastyourhouse-9385 unfortunately
@@yellododo
Lmao
I can't say for sure it was orchestrated by Norton but when I was a kid, I accidently got a virus on my mom's computer that completely took over the computer, and changed the backgroup to yellow with black lettering and the Norton logo saying that if we don't download and pay for the premium subscription then the computer will remain locked. The only website you could go to with Norton, well supposedly. It had to be completely reformatted before we could use it again. Ever since then, I've been very suspicious.
@@yellododo Well played XD.
There are these mobile ads that make a glitch and crash the game, so you can’t get your in-game item.
Yea i hate those, but looks like is more uncommon seeing that type of ads
That's why I play anime mobile games since there are literally no ads on them
@@duskthegamer4129 wee-
I mean good im gonna try to play another type of games tbh
Remember when Futurama had ads in people's dreams , I feel like we're getting close to that being real
Then again, you never know what someone might dream about at night, like advertisements interrupted and/or blocked by even crazier ads.
r/assholedesign: **exists**
Reaper: Even I'm not into that sh*t!
No Sun Tzu this time, I see?
You are correct
No Sun Tzu
PUT DISPENSER HERE!
𝕭𝖗𝖚𝖍
14:49 is the height of boomer memes; "Father I cannot click the book"
imagine getting an f because the school is too lazy to make a paper-compatible book
It's hilarious how that feminists Twitter poll put "I'm against progress" in the "no" reply and it still got 98% XD
at that point it's just pure spite and I'm all for it.
I didn’t get the “I’m against progress” thing, yeah a female president would be cool, but legally required seems like a stretch to me.
Based.
@@GAT-X-K9 American liberals are turning a fight to dismantle an unjust hierarchy of genders into "but what if the oppressor is _female,_ though? #girlboss!", and i _hate_ it
Then they will go back to see that and think, "wow men are really against progress" but fail to see they gave no real options in their poll other than the two extremes.
I tend to make vague threats into my phone's microphone so the person who tapped into my phone thinks I'm insane
Interesting fact: windows defender is better than most antivirus software you can install, not *THAT MUCH* instrusive, and comes included in windows 10, aka basically free
Another fun fact if you don't use windows: *nix systems when kept up to date (macos included) don't even need that much because as long as you don't elevate random software to root they can't do any meaningful harm to your system besides basically whatever is in your home directory
Conclusion: don't waste your time or money on antivirus
this
yup microsoft really improved the defender compared to windows 8 or 7 (it was shitty back then) and i really trust windows defender to save my ass
What do you mean not that much intrusive?
@@arandompersonp6930 I think the right word would have been disruptive
but it's still not that much intrusive either compared with some of the other antivirus software
Yeah sadly my dad didn't find out about this until after he had gotten McAfee for my laptop :/
You probably needed like 10 mins after every photo to calm yourself down😂
They got me SO mad
@be happy no bot
I am so glad I don't live in America and my country has laws against this type of bullshit.
It takes 20 minutes actually
Actually true
The sad part about today's games is that they would probably make more money if they made an actually good game these days because putting any ounce of effort in would make it the best game ever made by default
actually, someone did a video on it, if i remember correctly
making 1 or 2 good mobile games was around the same if not LESS profit than churning out like 50-100 awful cash grabby mobile games
The sad part is that those games are made and are really hard to find because trash games often have price tags as well.
Well, Minecraft proves your point about good games being the best ever. Also, there are some gems that aren’t very popular. My favorite game right now is Scrap Mechanic. It takes some Minecraft concepts, and adds gameplay I’ve always wanted but never could work the way Minecraft is. Unfortunately, the devs are out of touch with the community and seem to focus on new content more than fixing the major bugs and performance issues.
@@vibaj16 And Bioshock, it's the go to in the argument of video games are art for good reason it's hecken cool
The fact that you can uninstall the calculator and not facebook is fascinating
Avast slowed my PC down so much it took like a full minute to open chrome. 10 minutes to open a game and 5 for every loading screen. Everything worked relatively fine when Avast was off. All hail Eset!
same
Based on the fact that the founder of Dollar Shave Club graduated from a rich white private school, it doesn’t surprise me that he made the razor bases different.
1:35 A 7th grade science teacher showed this to my class in a graph a unit to show how graphs can be made to manipulate. I still don’t really get what that had to do with science but she seemed like a smart person.
It’s likely just because a lot of data is shown in graphs and they were probably trying to help you guys recognize when a study is not being truthful and is instead manipulating its audience. Also to make sure you guys graph things correctly.
Can you explain what wrong with it ?
It’s upside down to make it look like the stand your ground law has reduced gun murders. In reality it lead to a spike.
This is the most I have heard you cuss in a single video. And we could never be more proud!
I think this is the angriest he’s ever been
everybody gangsta until the benches come with robotic hands that tattoo advertisements for shirts on your chest with a rusty never washed needle
_wheeze_
I honestly believe some hellspawn would actually do that
That's terrible.
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Robin: " The dumb one! "
Me while talking to my friends about my favourite Emkay hosts: " The funny one "
norton be sounding like a rejected nice guy
Here's another a-hole design: Having a popup asking you to subscribe or like at random points in the video, that covers part of the actual content
This! I make it a POINT to downvote a video if shit like that pops up. If i like the content, i'm gonna subscribe, hate when creators belittle the viewer with shit like that
What I hate more is if the popup has an X mark that makes you go to their website when you press it
Id rather not have writting imprinted on my thighs giving creeps more of a reason to stare.
Woah, we haven’t gotten one of these since like 2019.
@be happy thank you
@be happy i thought this was a link to an Aholedesign video
@@pileopixels3048 It's a bot, he's commenting that everywhere, I just flagged him for now
@@frankyboy1385 thanks. so what is the latest ahole design emkay video before this one?
@@pileopixels3048 You right. At least a year ago, I'm gald Robin made another one :D
“Shatter the bottle” they said, “It’ll be easy” they said, those bottles are made of an impenetrable substance. I swear
When you’re animating but your fav youtuber uploads:
Can't relate disliking the video
Roadhouse
*you're
*I'M SORRY OKAY DON'T COME AFTER ME LOL*
@@cryingchild2388 Ah yes, when you are fav youtuber.
@@somethingedgy2185 well no one is gonna apologize to you good luck.
Hold on the same exact thing just happened to me-
12:03 not “against progress” but against giving the American people their freedoms that they preach so much about. Also very heavily going against anti-discrimination law violations
Robin- says hes dumb
Me- your da smart one, actually, so are the rest of the emkay teams
@be happy stop. pls
@@raoufbensalem3417 i did report him for unwanted advertising. Id reccomend doing the same
@be happy i dont want dat tho
13:50 And that is why Piracy is the best streaming service.
Streaming from your hard drive, ripped from a DVD that you own is still considered "piracy" by law, so yes.
_Lol, Limewire._
9:33 Thats easy to get around. Set up an VM used only for School stuff, there is a lot of good software that you can use legally for free.
Now all this software can access is the almost empty VM, no further worries about your privacy necessary. Obviously this can also be used for cheating, but cheating is even easier then this, just google the questions on your phone.
This type of software can be usefull in a classroom, where pupils don´t have enough rights to easily and fast outtrick the software and a teacher constantly watches every pupil to make sure no one cheats with his phone. I don´t know what makes me more angry, teacher that disrespect their pupils privacy, or teacher that are so stupid to think this software could actually prevent anyone from cheating. I mean how is someone so stupid supposed to teach anything?
The answer: go to Canada, with the Convention in the Rights of the Child.
@@frankyboy1385 This also violates COPPA as well as the 4th amendment in the US, them doing that shit is a very big no-no in any setting regardless.
Edit: also think it overlaps with some things from HIPPA as well but idk
@@lingrahso4960 - HIPPA laws only apply to medical facilities and any place you give your medical information to. Schools do fall under such, however unless the teacher/school is sharing such information then no breach is taking place.
@@Ryanthusar Ah okay thanks for that I have a very loose understanding of this stuff but its better than nothing I guess haha
@@frankyboy1385 the guy lives in canada already
12:48 On Etsy when it says it's in other people's carts they aren't kidding. I thought I could go back to something the next day but it was sold out.
You can see the counter go up when you put something in your basket!
Yup
yea bro i bought a ena keychain on etsy and it only have five in stock, so when i bought it it went down to 4
This was a wild and infuriating ride. Im still stunned by the thigh advertisement shtick
5:52 they were apparently caught in their little scheme. "Apparently", being I manually searched for the site, typed in "defective lithium polymer"¹, and got no results.
¹In case you don't know, lithium polymer batteries can be very hazardous if handled improperly.
Remember that time Norton was caught releasing worms and viruses on the internet? Absolutely true.
To make us use norton......
My school does things like when it gives us real sheets of paper they will have links they expect us to memorise and then can't be bothered to use word properly when giving us homework.
"Am your host is Robin, the dumb one"
No no noooo Robin my friend, you're the Popular one. I'll have you and Lexi any day of hosting Emkay
what about jack
Ati-homeless architecture? One homeless guy in our town is on another level. He used an old tent and abondened boat, and now he has nice shelter. This mad lad lives in the middle of a river.
2 day ago we had a flood more than 10 houses destroyed, but guess who survived fine?
@@talicz9081 Virgin designers vs giga chad Bob the homeless pirate
5:05 what you do is get yourself a pitcher of ice water. Soak a string in alcohol and tie it around the glass bottle near the top. Light the string on fire and let it burn for a bit. Then, pour the pitcher of ice water over the bottle. The sudden shift in temperature will cause the glass to break cleanly where the burning string was tied. You probably still won't be able to get the bottle out, but you should be able to shift it just enough to enable you to pour the contents out into another container.
I believe you are a physicist
... or you could use an angle grinder to cut off the bars
JESSE
@@ElectronicInspiration most people have string, alcohol and water though. And even if I they didn't, they'd probably be more willing to go out and buy them. Not everyone has an angle grinder or would be willing to buy one just for this purpose.
@@speakofthedevil3216 Well, the burning string trick still has a decent chance of either not working, burning you, or shattering the glass bottle. Maybe you could borrow an angle grinder off of your neighbor or something. "My dumb ass relative welded my gift shut. Can I borrow your angle grinder?" Most decent people would agree around here at least.
The Hulu one didn't make any sense to me. A lot of streaming services like that simply the number of people able to stream the service in question using a single account at a time. Where as Hulu seems to have to be extra and tie the account to a specific IP for no apparent reason honestly. Oh and the textbook one has always infuriated me. I don't get why they charge so damn much for an unbound version of the book. Using very flimsy paper that has the holes punched near the damn edge, which means pages can easily tear out if your not careful, or you have a bad binder. Like companies are just cutting as many corners as they can, and it's getting frustrating.
We looked at the flipped axis graph in math class as an example of a misleading graph, and I was the first one to notice that it was upside-down
You can tell it must be from Fox "news" based on the direction of the axis.
@@MushookieMan its called fox news for a reason. it has the brain of a fox, to trick
@@MushookieMan Even flipped, it shows that gun deaths were reduced. Went from 873 to 721, with a massive increase in population. Stand your ground isn't designed to prevent gun deaths anyway, it's to allow a person to defend their life if someone is trying to take it. Not all "Gun deaths" were necessarily a crime against an innocent person. Many are cases of self-defense.
I once got a Korean version of Tom Sawyer as a gift from a friend. I was learning Korean at the time and only noticed after a few pages that something felt really odd.
Turns out, someone had just put the original book or something through google translate and started selling it on amazon....
The homeless thing is just bruh, I'm a Christian who's heart breaks for those people! It hurts my soul when people are mean to them for the sake of it, people practically discriminate against them in such a way where there is no fair way to police it-literally the only thing we can do is boycott the business that does that crap, I get it if they are taking up space for hours but you could ju st do nothing and make people's lives better.
there is a way bring back the old way of deleting with people like this
you know what I am gonna say it starts with mob
Yeah even if you completely take empathy out of the question anti-homeless things that exist are non sensical and waste money.
I've seen that there are places the put spike on the ground so no one can sit or lay on the ground in front a door that has a roof before if.
There are also park benches that have unneccissary rails to ensure people cant lay down on a park bench.
@@richardtinsel3365 You know you can just fit all those words in a single comment
It that tinder changing people's settings to make sure they continued to have fun involved younger people at all then Chris Hansen needs to be called
"You know what they're not good at? Making games."
*and I took that personally*
2:25 When your former virus protection gaslights you because you decided you’ve had enough