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These companies charging money for inactivity remind me of Wells Fargo taking $5 monthly from my savings account _for not having enough money in my savings account._
Jackholes. 👎🏻
Wells Fargo is literally one of the worst banks in the country. Please find another bank if you haven't already. (not US Bank, though, they do the same thing)
Banks literally use the money in your accounts to fund loans to businesses and other people. It's how banks do business and earn a profit.
@@OneTrueCat Oh, I absolutely ditched them after finding out other more wildly nefarious shenanigans they were pulling. I'm with a credit union now and never looking back!
Highly recommend CUs if you have any in your area.
Quick amendment, they use your money to balance books to be able to make those loans possible. Your money is usually safe as most banks are federally insured. What that bank did doesn't sound legal unless it was in the fine print.
As a former pizza driver, I can tell you the delivery fee is more of a "OMG!!! You're making us pay someone to bring you food! Screw You!! Here is a fee for making us pay someone 4.25 an hour!" and we drivers never see it. It's stupid!
it should only be charged if it's gas money. Unbelievable it doesn't cost that much to send orders through th e net
You worked for a crap company, I can tell you that the major chains in my area definitely do let drivers keep all their tips, including digital.
@@indigowulf if they were being paid $4.25 an hour, I’d venture to say this was a long time ago. Most companies understand now that “if we don’t pay our employees a semi livable wage, they might go somewhere else.”
@@indigowulf They're talking about delivery fees specifically, which is part of the initial bill, not a tip.
@@krusader9508 I don’t think most companies care because they prey on vulnerable people that need work ANY work
Just a note, Homescapes is nothing like the ads. Ever.
In fact, contacting them about their false material or posting reviews? Get redirected to the fact they have a website for contact or something.
They're literally redirecting hate.
yea fr and they’re not the only app that has completely fake ads like it’s becoming a big problem. it’s ridiculous
exactly like gardenscapes even has ads saying “hate those fake ads? ours are real” when in actuality they are as fake as the ads they’re making fun of (while also obviously ripping off the merge mansion and lilys garden ads but with the gardenscapes person lmao)
@@galaxygorl (cough cough) evony (cough)
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"They usually say you have an analytical brain and a creative one. I just have two on cocaine."
This is the best description of ADHD I've ever heard.
"I do not want to be stalked by my washing machine" a quote to remember
Honestly great quote to put on a shirt and confuse the heck out of people
I have 0% of an idea of what that means. I love it. 😂
@@hollyhayes9640 it means they don’t want to be stalked by their washing machine
Same for my TV, my fridge, my stove, my drier, my microwave, my... We just don't need «smart» appliances.
Just bough a TV, and was VERY careful to NOT get a «smart» one. Rejected about 100 before finding a non-smart one.
Well, Click, when you ruin your engine with CocaCola, then you can't drive anymore. So, this IS solving the high gas prices. No working car, no need for gas.
And then less people buy gas meaning there’s a larger supply and price goes down
And anywas, sugar contains carbon and hydrogen (and a bit of other stuff) - mostly the same that diesel or gasoline does. So why the big fuzz?
@@robertnett9793 you are joking right? I can make the exact same argument "welll CO2 is basically the same as CO so what's all the fuss?"
I saw an ad with sth like "How to save 50% on electricity bill" and the picture shown was a copper spiral with two pointy ends very close to the socket and I thought
"Well you sure as hell don't use electricity if you're dead, that's for sure"
Holy shit you're a genius!
as a former delivery driver, the "Delivery Fee" is you paying the company to have one of their employees bring your food to you. not to mention as soon as you clock the delivery your pay rate plummets to "Tipped wage" which is way below minimum rates
IE:
Florida minimum wage : $11
tipped wage: $7.89
I honestly hate this country and its "lets exploit everyone" mindset
Tipped wages just shouldn't exist. Not every customer can afford to make up for the fact that the server or driver aren't being paid properly. It's such a scummy business practice.
The way you guys are treated in America is terrible.
Im facepalming right now and shaking my head because as lousy as that is, that tipped wage is greater then the minimum wage in Pennsylvania. It hasnt been raised it since 2009. Hourly tipped wage is 2.83. Anytime I catch someone talking about Flordia like PA is so much better Im pointing this out to them. There needs to be a push on the federal level to force states to correct this bull.
@@krose6451 indianas is even better (read: worse). Tipped minimum wage is $2.13 here
My brother works in a restaurant (in Canada). He makes minimum wage plus $1 in tips/hour as a dishwasher. (And they feed him to)
I worked for a small, family owned business hit hard by COVID that payed more than minimum wage (for an entry-level position with no prior training or education) and they gave me a raise when I came back the next summer.
Companies can definitely afford to pay their workers. They just don't want to cut into their profits and exec bonuses
"Pay for nothing, get this for free" reminds me of a pretty clever trick I heard about once. This student wanted to sell bread at school or something, but he got shut down 'cause he didn't have a permit to sell food items. So instead he started selling the free napkins from the cafeteria and "with every napkin you get a free bread" or something and they couldn't shut him down. lol.
You know what is really a new low? When sites shove a popup in your face with text like "We detecting you're using an addblocker, please disable it for our site". It's like they themselves recognize how badly their site is infested with adds, and yet they have the audacity to try and shift the blame on users.
Like, yeah, sure, I blocked adds on previous 100500 sites I visited, but for YOUR site I will make an exception (no)
That's remember me CZcams with ads that literally you just CAN'T skip.. that's aways make me reload the page until stop or just don't watch the video
The ads are the only way they make money, so they overload the pages. Soon you'll have to subscribe to everything.
I know, right? It's insane. I forget what the site was, but I needed an article to write a history paper this year, and I couldn't access the website at all without disabling my adblocker. It wasn't even a pop-up over the page I needed, it redirected me to an entirely different page. And because it was for a school project, I couldn't just refuse to use the page; I needed that specific article. So frustrating.
The only reason I started using an ad blocker was because the ads on YT were getting worse and worse. Like, I don't want to watch 5 ads in a 6 minute video of which 3 are unskippable 15-20 second ads and 2 of them are sexual, scam video game ads. I don't have enough free time far all that
@@DragonLandlord I don’t fucking care - it’s a shitty thing to do and I demand that they stop doing it.
You get a pass for being shameless when you’re this close 1mil. It would be shameless if you did it without end
Since when has cliccy wiccy ever had shame. Didn't know he could ever feel that
Compared to the companies in the video that is literally nothing.
@@RGC_animation preach
Proud to have been here before 50 k💪
Not gonna lie, I am low key thrilled about seeing the number of subscribers going up day by day. And now that it's SO FRICKING TANTALIZING CLOSE... I lose my mind (I mean it's not much in the first place and I won't notice it anyway - BUT STILL!!!)
edit: Typo. Broken Princess of Hell found it, so they can keep it :D
If a site charges you when you *don't* use them, but it's otherwise "free", it means they collect your data and sell it to make money.
I really hate that this is how the world does stuff now... I say that we as a collective hivemind, sue ALL these companies to make the internet an acceptable place to do things
The ad situation is so bad that I bought a cookbook so I can look up recipes without ads, popups, or someone's irrelevant life story. It's insane.
I've resorted to screenshotting online recipies I like and storing them separately.
Woah... CZcams edited my comment...
I have a joy of cooking cookbook (more than 1000 pages) and my kid goes, "You know you can just look up how to make these things" I was like, sure but I can use the book even when there's no internet and if some ingredient gets splashed on the book it's not going to ruin it.
Edit: I'm pretty sure it was Gourmet Recipe Manager, it seems to not have been updated since 2014, but it should still work well.
I had a recipe software a while back, it was great, basically the way a book works, but you can search by ingredients, and ban some, for example, no eggs.
I collect all of the recipes I find online and I actually like in a handwritten cookbook lmao
Want to talk about A-hole design? I got one for you. My SO and I recently adopted a kitten. She was 6 weeks when we got her and she's 14 weeks now. We bought her a break away collar, in case she gets stuck on something. I finally went to use it today and noticed something very strange and Very frustrating. It wasn't actually a fully break away collar. The sliding 'buckle' that allowed you to resize the collar was attached to the break away latch. Meaning the latch could come undone but would still be attached to the buckle, giving maybe an extra 2 or 3 millimeters of room but keeping the kitten stuck in the collar. It's a freaking death trap if she caught it on something and she had no leverage to unstick herself. I was absolutely furious. Thankfully we had an extra collar for our adult cat that is actually break away and just adjusted it to it's tiniest setting. Our kitten is very active and has gotten herself stuck on things without the collar, I couldn't imagine putting that collar on her and finding her strangled the next day. Seriously appalling
Wow
Holy shit
That one escalates from asshole design to dangerous design, that's fucking sickening
Thank goodness you noticed before using it. I hope no cats have been harmed (or worse) because of the false advertising/awful design. :(
The time window delivery people MUST have learned from the "Deutsche Bahn". When one of their trains is too late, they just cancel it midway, make it turn around... and because it was cancelled, it is no longer "late", so that is how they fix their statistics about late trains!
That's how I turn in my school work
As a german this comment gave me flashbacks I didn't want to see...
This comment gave me way to hard flashbacks...
Worker of Walmart here! I didn't know about the hidden prices thing until a while ago either, but it's because so many companies want to cram their products onto the display that we have to layer the price tags just to make room. So at the very least the employees aren't at fault.
OK... but why is there only one price sticker on the top of the flap and the rest underneath? It should be the other way around, right? Aren't the employees responsible for putting those stickers on?
@@ThEjOkErIsWiLd00 I don't work in those areas, but I imagine it's about density. Most of the prices, especially for different colors of the same cosmetic, are the same. So Walmart places the stickers in a neat way on top to be more organized and easy to find, while the bottom stickers are for the people who stock shelves to know that the specific item they're stocking does indeed go there.
I hope no one blames the workers.
Please don't put sugar in your engine. 😮
32:39 "*sigh*.Samsung ,please tell me why your washing machine needs to access my camera ,my persona phone contacts and my location. That is creepy I do not want to be stalked by my washing machine ,thank you" This is the best quote of all time in a click video ever .Yes,this is the hill I will die on .
Thank You
“We answer unasked questions that will boost our products popularity, we do not answer the questions which have actually been asked”
-Samsung if they saw this comment
Piratism is going to do a comeback pretty soon with companies screwing over users like this.
Piratism never went away
Been sailing the 7 seas for the long time, would recommend
@@AssassinAgent Not really, no. But it went down a lot, since coorps learned, that people are willing to throw money at the, IF THEY JUST LET THEM....
So any rise in piracy nowadays is 100% on them.
But just wait until they declare the next holy war on those murderous piracy-terrorists that want to destroy the world or some bs...
*Yo ho fiddle de dee, return my private data back to me.*
Yarrrrrr on the gut boat.
The "say goodbye to paper" one reminds me of that company in Denmark that decided to send out papers to all homes with the message of using less paper. For some reason the guy delivering it dumped 8 of them in our mailbox at once. I took a picture and sent it to the company, asking if maybe they should practice what they preach.
Did they respond?
@@kittengamer6410 They actually did. They apologized.
Remember, kids: Minimum wage means if they could pay you less, they would.
Several levels of both state and federal government had to pass laws, and enforce them, to get your boss to pay you somewhat close to a livable wage. Otherwise, they'd pay you far, far less.
Click saying he hopes the reviewers have a nice day is just so wholesome, like these guys have to see all kinds of horrible things that some terrible people try to upload, this has to be one of the worst jobs. I also hope they are having a great day!
Video reviews are done by bot.
@@G-Forces some are reviewed by people. they let the youtubers know when their video was reviewed by a person
@@G-Forces not all
Have a great day everyone! ❤️💗💞🦭🐈⬛
Content moderators often have to review content that is far BEYOND simple violations of TOS. We're talking stuff that nobody needs to see, like deaths and extreme violence, and as one can expect, some reviewers end up with PTSD. Applies to more things than Google, but yeah those kinda jobs exist and for now AI isn't good enough to do all the dirty work.
How can the "tracking-free" website know that someone is in the UK/EU, without tracking them?
you have no idea how far i had to scroll down to finally find someone asking the same question i had in my mind after that part XD
Because it's not "tracking-free". The fact that they cannot comply with GDPRS, says it all.
If you're not tracking, GDPRS, is not relevant to you.
Because IP addresses are registered with certain geographical information. It’s publicly available and requires no tracking. If it were about tracking, a VPN would not help you. (However, using these commercial VPNs with suspiciously low prices means the VPN provider can see a lot of information about your traffic and is probably using it.)
@@VexVerity Thank you. I am, admittedly,, a bit of a dinosaur when it comes to tech matters.
I don't know if that's a thing somewhere else too, but some Italian online newspapers recently started making the X for closing ads invisibile, so if you want to close that shite you have to guess where the X is. Absolutely insane.
I find it amazing that TheClick has a special really long cord just so he can get up and wander around the room without worry of ripping his headphones off :3
Ngl, little jealous of how long that cord is. Would've been great back in the days before I had cordless bluetooth headphones.
It's the Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro. They are open back headphones designed for mixing audio. The newest model is the DT 990 Pro. They are truly amazing. All the models in this line have the telephone coil cord and sound so good. Not good for public spaces because they leak sound out the back (as they don't have backs). They do not have noise cancellation by design as open backs create deeper soundscapes and avoid building up pressure in the ears (which is the reason I got a set as I have thin eardrums and the pressure by closed back headphones gives me awful headaches). Sorry for the info dump, I just love these headphones. (Also I know this is 11 months old. I am binging his content)
The DT770 is closed back, the 990 is open back. @@Southpaw-hk2gf
Fun animal fact: Cone snails have one of the world’s most painful and fatal ‘stings’. They fire a harpoon that can cause muscle paralysis and respiratory failure. Nicknamed the ‘cigarette snail’, its victims are said to only have enough time to smoke a cigarette before death.
Thank you everyone for your patience for the fun animal facts! I am back from my illness with all the FAF’s every day that the wonderful Cliccy posts his videos! And a thanks to the wonderful Mr Click! Your videos are amazing!
That's only one type, the geography cone snail, and despite the joke about how quickly it kills, it actually takes between 1 and 5 hours to actually kill someone. Plus, the venom, itself, is very survivable, with medical intervention, despite the lack of antivenom for it, they just keep you alive until the venom just wears off on its own.
They also have very pretty shells
Ah yes, this way the devil can't take my soul since smokers don't have any. Pretty clever!
@@shytendeakatamanoir9740 😂
That animal fact isn't fun at all!
17:28 "now they are using coke zero instead of regular Cocaine"
wait a minute
In the ye olden days, cola was made with cocaine hence the nickname coke lol. Not sure why that was, I'm sure you can google it.
@@Urube23 Because cocaine wine was a popular thing once upon a time. Turns out you can infuse alcohol with coca leaves really easily. Just put them in and the alcohol does all the work for you. So yeah. Europe had a big coca wine craze. Apparently lots of writers in the Victorian era drank it. And weeeell. We now know why they wrote so much and published without going through an editor.
The cocain content in Coca-Cola went down when they had to take out the alcohol. I believe it was because the city the creator was based in went dry (made alcohol illegal). So the coca leaves didn’t distill lots of cocain in the drink without the alcohol and yeah.
Fun fact Coca Cola still uses coca leaves in their recipe. It’s just that they extract the cocain part first and I think sell it to dentists to be used for local anesthetic.
And that is the random useless info I have in my brain about this topic.
That first one about getting charged for lack of use is illegal in the US. You cannot charge for a lack of an action.
We covered this in some business law class I took in college. Magazines and other companies were sending people their products in the mail without them signing up for it and then charging for the product. Well, they got sued and the law now agrees that it's illegal to charge for a lack of an action and anything you get with a charge like that, you don't have to pay.
I think they get away with it because of the fact that they're not taking from a bank account, just an in-site cash balance.
Finally. It uses to be a common and shady practice for book clubs and record clubs. If you didn't send the card back in the mail on time, you would automatically be mailed the book or record of the month. It was awful. My grandfather always said it was illegal. Glad that finally stopped.
The "Delivery Fee is not a Tip" addition to Papa John's boxes happened when I worked with them. Drivers were not allowed to tell people that unless they asked and many people wouldn't tip because they assumed it went to driver. Delivery fee is just a way to increase price while "not raising prices" since most sales are delivery. In 2002, their delivery fee was $1.00 and driver got $0.50/delivery for gas/mileage. By 2012, delivery fee was $2.75 and stores I worked I got $0.75 a delivery. Now their delivery fee is $4.50. I don't know how much goes to the driver for gas/mileage. Corporate stores also change you to tipped-wages instead of basic minimum wage any time you're clocked out on delivery - and managers may clock you out on the delivery before you actually leave (as soon as the timer on order is long enough the pizza *could* have come out of oven if it went in immediately). So, you're not out making any tips, but getting paid only a few dollars a hour.
As an American, I was under the impression that every college requires you to pay to download your transcripts, I've been to multiple colleges, and it has always been that way
classic America
I’m Canadian, my university won’t even let us download our transcripts, we have to pay each time to get them either emailed to other institutions (can’t email to yourself cause that would be efficient), or you can get a physical copy mailed to you (with extra fees for postage). I really wish they’d have access to transcripts be included with tuition considering how expensive it is already
@@twg6732 dang, I thought Canada had free college-level education
@@MatingPress Tuition itself is free for those over 65, but there are other fees you have to pay.
I'm also American but I don't have to pay to get my transcripts? Maybe it's because I went to a community college?
@@happybatty5142 It's entirely up to the colleges whether they want to charge for it or not
As a (former) graphics designer, I am pretty sure stuff like that moving ad-screen on the back of a truck in traffic is actually illegal - at least in Germany. While I was doing street decorations and car prints, there were instances, where we couldn’t put like… a mirroring surface on an installment, because it could potentially blind drivers in the road nearby. And similar stuff like that.
There is this one road in the Netherlands that has this massive led screen ad board next to the highway. But that thing is sooo bright and on a highway with little to no streetlights, it is actually distracting and blinding at night, causing you to see less after you pass it. I hate that sign. It should be illegal.
If it's not illegal, it should be.
There used to be an LED screen on a store front, pretty much in line with the traffic lights. It would flash green on occasion.... during red lights... causing people to think the light turned green and run through the red light. I was almost tricked like this, since the LED screen was too overwhelming.
I mean have you seen advertising in America? When I was there when I was little I was always fascinated by the flashing digital billboards, and the ones that flipped over in waves to reveal different ones. Americans must be somewhat immune to this kind of thing by now... (Also we just got digital signs in the UK now, they arent that common or big, but still pretty distracting...)
Also, even if it isn't illegal, that might only be because it's a relatively new thing and the law hasn't caught up yet.
idk abojt america despite living here but that sounds like it should be illegal to have moving ads. the only ones that are fine are the unobtrusive ones that are mostly just words scrolling across the top of the bus saying the location and sometimes random other things cause they’re not super bright and usually are helpful to people who need to take the bus knowing where it’s going
12:25 Streaming services: Why are there so many pirates on the interwebs?
Pirate sites: Arrr you ready kids?
(18:30) The sticker is placed on top of the screw to tell you that the warranty is void if you try to unscrew it. The problem is that these stickers aren't legally binding.
Honestly the amount of trees that "legit" companies in the US murder to send barely not scam letters is sickening. I get so many "bills" "urgently past due" things that it is ridiculous!!
Check the origin locations on those. If they come from one mother company, you can complain on the BBB website and request "no further contact from this company" to get them to stop. You may have to go after a few companies instead of just a single one, but yanno... less spam mail. Worked for me when I first bought my house and kept getting ads for insurance and selling it back and who knows what else. One of them even intentionally mimicked the federal reserve check you get with a tax return! But my complaint worked. I've gotten no more spams of that kind.
On the flip side, if you have an annoying neighbor, you can sign them up for a much of spam mail.
Soon enough Click is gonna start charging us $2 when we don't watch daily uploads
sssshhhh
@@TheClick i would pay for it
2$ seems a little too generous
Fair consequence
@@TheClick Fair enough
It was actually CZcams that "forced" me to install an ad blocker. I used to be a nice little consumer and watched the ads, but (just like on TV) they turned up the volume on them pretty significantly. One day, the random ad at the start of a video was so loud, it physically hurt, and I had to rip out my earbuds. That's when I said enough is enough, I'm not risking my ability to hear/my health just so a CZcamsr (sorry Click) can make a few cents off of me. Installed an ad blocker and never looked back.
I don't have a problem with ads per se, but with how deviously they are implemented nowadays. Same with paid services. If they get too greedy, I will use a workaround, because I refuse to support such dirty business practices/behaviors.
Ad views barely pay youtubers any money anyway, so you can support them way more effectively by letting sponsor spots play through for their view statistics to look good, and doing the usual like-etc-actions to help them boost subscribers/engagement :) I'm with you, adblockers all the way. I pay the monthly tithe to our tubey overlords because I use this and the music app so much that it's worth it, but if it were more convenient to find third-party apps to access those services without ads, I wouldn't bother. And once I can't get the student discount anymore it's over lol not worth it
Depending on how much you even watch a certain youtuber just donating them like a dollar or a euro is more then them will make of you watching all the ads.
"Delivery fee is not a tip"
Okay, so you pay it then.
Oh, no, you want to make it optional?
Well, then it IS a tip.
Plot twist, it doesn't go to the drivers.
@@taviebrown2271you are correct
Ah yes, “let’s hold your data hostage if you don’t pay us” My favourite movie trope lmao
15:36 Pro tip: If you live in the EU, enter an age below 13. This makes it illegal for them to sell your data
Counter point, give them an age where they can sell data, and give them completely bull carp data. According to survey, I’m Marolandiaopolis, retired, single, and rich, at the age of 23. I also live in Ohio and have every streaming service.
its illegal for them to sell or even collect your data no matter the age. unless you opt-in for them collecting and selling it ( has to be opt-in, cant be on by default ). you can only collect data that is obvious that they need, like if you are signing up to a newsletter, its generally understood that they need your email.
GDPR is powerful
Click, you're 100% correct, UX on news sites, blogs, and article aggregators has become unbearable. Using an adblocker has become essential - not only to protect your privacy, but to avoid wading through garbage in order to access the site's content.
Many of these sites will beg you to turn off your adblocker, and yet they serve intrusive ads that don't respect users' time or their attention. They've gotten so desperate.
And I didn't even mention paywalls...
Man, that Solitaire one hit me hard. I use to love playing that on the PC when I was bored. But I have since completely abandoned it since they keep spamming ads into it between games, making you have to listen to whatever BS they want to push just so you can get to the game.
8:10 Technically, this trick does solve high gas prices. More people putting coke in their gas tank = fewer cars on the road = lower demand for gas = lower gas prices.
I mean, your not wrong, but wouldn’t new vehicles go up by default then?
@@not-him-I-swearthat’s assuming these people wouldn’t just put coke in the new one thinking it has “brand new coke cycling turbines” or something lol
That delivery for coffee reminded me that I had a package delivered from Amazon a week ago and for the delivery, the message was like " Delivery attempted today at 10:28 AM" I took a screen shot that shows this message got to me at 10:10 AM.
I have a feeling the university document one isn't as scummy as we are led to believe. At my alum, I can get digital copies of any of my transcripts and such for free.
However, if I want a notarized printed copy I have to pay because they actually print it out on special paper that has security stuff in it and an authorized rep from the university signs and notarizes it with the embossed university emblem. It is meant for when I need to prove I have certain educational qualifications. Like if I went to get my Masters at another university, went to obtain certain licensing, etc.
I got a few copies when I graduated in case I needed them to transfer my credits to another university to do another program, for any kind of certification where I needed to prove I met certain education requirements, etc.
24:00 I had a makeup brand that did this with their liquid foundation. They raised the price but the bottle also became larger. At first glance, you would think you are getting more so it evens out. Then, I checked the number of ounces. It was the same amount of foundation as the older, smaller bottles. They had just put it in a larger bottle and raised the price.
27:00 That's fairly standard. I had to pay for transcripts, copies of my Diploma/Degree, etc...
I love how the click's sponsor moments are better than simply piano ads and it's easier to do. I mean, it's even more entertaining than the product of a professional team it's amazing
I wouldn't know, I'm using a VPN that blocks ads
@@Broeckchen I...you literally saw him in a snowsuit. VPNs have nothing to do with that.
@@APoliticalConfusionAndMess Woosh 😂
@@SubacaiDarkwing More so a woosh on you, considering you think anyone’s actually like that.
@@APoliticalConfusionAndMess Double woosh, considering that the initial joke wooshed by you so hard that the woosh wooshed you too
My favorite click quote: "They usually say you have analytical brain and a creative one, I just have two on cocaine"
Adblock is increasingly mandatory because they’ve gone way overboard
Speaking about ads on a paid streaming service... Cable was originally the "Pay to not have ads" option. We just keep repeating history time and time again~
6:45 That digital sign on the back of the truck would be put to better use by showing you things ahead that the truck is blocking your view of(overhead signs, traffic lights, etc)
But that would actually be helpful! And it would… *GASP* cost the company money without getting any back!
IIRC, they do that in China
trippy
This vpn ad is pure gold. Love the energy. I tend to skip ads sometimes, but this adorable awkward messiness is absolutely unskippable. Your overheating was appreciated
And the ending!!
I don't get how companies think tricking and scaring people into endearing them enough to use their products. It's wild. I blacklist everything that does that to me.
I have to say, being a web chat rep myself, the companies FORCE you to ask annoying and arbitrary questions so they can "gather data." We don't want to annoy you, but we will get in trouble, possible fired, if we don't ask all the required canned statements. Also we don't have time to wait for you to go AFK for 20 minutes and then come back. For example, we're required to wait up to 2 minutes for a reply and then ask if you're still there. The worst customers are the ones who leave or do whatever else they're doing until they see that and say "Yeah, wait," and then go away again, and then repeat this. This has been done to me multiple times for upwards of 40 minutes and it is frustrating as hell because I have WAY more things that I need to do that I can't do until the karen leaves. 6 seconds though is a bit crazy; we can't see the rest of what was happening, but I'm guessing they got fed up with waiting.
@rainlupine OMG, yes. I remember getting so many clients leaving again and again and I'm so glad my company had a 5-minute limit for inactivity, and 3 minutes for a "red triangle", aka they left the webpage. Plus, we kind of have to ask questions to determine if we can help them or else it becomes a detriment to the company/employee. I hate people shitting on web agents just because they don't understand that WE have to deal with sometimes worse stuff.
@@artsyfox1950 Yep! And then when you gotta ask clarifying questions to make sure you can help them or if you have to send them elsewhere, they get all uppity, even though they had the chance to select the right department for assistance at chat initiation.
It's not much, but the water bottles that you can't reuse, here is an idea for gardeners: You can cut the tops off, invert them over poles, and use the poles to hold up netting that keeps moths and aphids out of your garden. The bottles stop the poles from rubbing holes in the netting.
You can also use them for watering! You can cut the bottoms off and bury them upside down to get water to the roots more efficiently
You can also make miniature greenhouses for small plants.
When the Quest was first released, Facebook promised that you would never be required to have a Facebook account to use your Oculus Quest. Well, guess what?
You still don't need a Facebook account, Meta is a roaring success, NFTs have taken off and world peace was recently announced due to the tireless efforts of Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Vladimir Putin?
I love guessing games! Lemme know if I'm right!
@@vetreas366 Well... You got the spirit...
@@vetreas366 at least I thought you were some ancap Libertarian who was unironically praising these things
I'd like to point out that this is why we need regulations. Some of this shit is actually illegal in the EU.
Absolutely, the EU can do some stupid shit but they do it for a reason
The flippy thing in the store is because cosmetics are more narrow than the price tag - not enough room to fit price tags, so it needs 2 layers. Sauce - worked in retail, cosmetics are a royal pain.
Fun Fact. they put the warranty voiding sticker on the screw so trying to work on your own device voids the warranty. but in the US, those stickers are illegal. they're there because the devices ship to all countries, but you can't void it in the US because of our right to work on our property. it's what protects your ability to work on your own Car Engine as well.
Huh. I'm surprised congress hasn't gotten on that and eliminated that law…
@@John_Weiss Saint Louis Rossman at it.
My bank charges $5 for a paper statement because "the environment" but mails me at least 3 credit card/insurance offers a month. Da fuq.
17:48 in Germany coke is actually cheaper than fuel at the moment. It's ridiculous
Speaking of stupid ads - my guess is that you’ll soon have to watch a five minute ad in public bathrooms before you get access to the toilet paper. Remember where you heard it first.
oh my fucking god. he made a video that showed literally this exact thing in a chinese bathroom. You absolute madman
“We love you,
I swear to god if you don’t come back we will take all your money”
Omg that storage limit thing happened to me on one of my art software! So frustrating! So originally Medibang had much bigger free cloud storage for using the program so you could easily work on projects across platforms. Then they changed to a membership based formula and I had JUST BARELY too much in my cloud (the maximum with the free plan being 3gb and I had like 3.23gb at the switch) so they locked me out of ALL OF MY PROJECTS until I either deleted something big enough (these were all WIPs so I COULDN'T delete them) or upgrade my plan. Thankfully they offered a free week trial that included the bigger storage, but it still took me hours to manually save every project to my external hard drive individually so I could cancel it. I couldn't imagine just starting out as a freelancer or something and having this happen to me like "Oh sorry, I'm gonna be a bit delayed getting that commission to you because Medibang decided to eat it :)"
Oh god. As soon as I read "art software" I knew EXACTLY where this was going. I was considering getting Premium as thanks for being there for me during the ~7 years I've been doing art until I found out about that shit. Very glad I never used cloud saves...and the worst part is that I've tried other free art programs before and all of them had at least one thing about them that was enough to mame me wanna just go back to MediBang & FireAlpaca, so I don't have much choice but to stick.
I'd recommend switching art programs. Krita is freeware and open-source. No subscription, no ads, and every tool that medibang/photoshop/etc all have. Free online tutorials too, and a forum for users to help each other. Tried it once ages ago and have never even considered another program since.
32:15 There's no "would be" about this. It's just "we lied"
As a delivery driver, the convience fee goes to paying for the gas. Even before the gas went up, if it was left up to most customers, they wouldnt pay enough for us to have a "mimium wage" and gas.
I have the reverse issue with going paperless. I'm visually impaired and can't read online bills, so my phone provider has always done large print paper bills. Except that now they seem to think that that's too much like hard work, and don't send me any bills that I can access.
That sucks. Going from being able to handle stuff yourself, to needing a sighted person to at minimum print out your bills in large print so you can read them. It's cruel.
@@mamasimmerplays4702 - it's also illegal! The Equalities Act, which replaced the Disability Discrimination Act. specifically states that alternative format be provided when asked for.
But even a government agency [which should obey the law if anyone does] whines "We can't do large print!" The truth is, of course, that they should add "be bothered to" after "can't".
"Hey martha, Have a landshark."
Is a quote that's terrifying if you don't know the context.
I have seen so many of those "flashlight into projector" ads. It's actually kind of alarming, because that means people must keep on falling for it.
I seen a lot too! Its obviously trying to target little kids.
As someone who loves to go back and rewatch episodes of shows I love to relive the experience of my favourite episodes, a service removing episodes to prevent people from binge-watching would drive me insane. I'm not even trying to abuse the system! I just wanna rewatch that old episode I liked!
The only time that I can see the delivery fee legitimately going to the restaurant, is when the delivery vehicles belong to the restaurant.
and that's given they're also the one re-fueling the vehicles when needed, and not shoving that responsibility onto the driver with their own money.
The warranty on the screw is pretty standard for computer parts that come with warranties. It lays on top to block users from unscrewing their part, causing internal damage, then claiming warranty. External damage is easy to label the purchasers fault but a shorted circuit could be caused by anything and the warranty has to honor it even if an act of sabotage on a part near the end of its warranty.
That sticker is also illegal to enforce. It has been illegal since before computers. You can always get a warranty repair as long as you aren't the one that caused the specific damage.
Exactly what I thought, that seemed like a pretty reasonable place to put a warranty sticker, to prevent people from opening whatever this is and then claim "internal damage, producer's fault" or sth like that.
You are mostly correct, insofar as the stated reason goes. But it is a bit more complex.
For one, the cases of fraud is generally reasonably few such that the companies can just eat the cost (and probably pass it onto consumers via price increase). The mostly made this rule, which as someone noted, cannot be legally enforced, to discourage the behaviors in general so they don't have to--both to eat the cost and increase the price to consumers to cover(the latter so they can be more price competitive, of course).
For another, it is possible, likely even, for an expert to identify external caused failure versus naturally occurring ones in an aged product("near the end of its warranty"). Most hard/acute failure occur very early in the product cycle. And delayed failure tend to have specific cause that can be easily identified. Forced acute failure on an aged product is rarely natural and thus tend to be user induced, intentional or otherwise. The problem here, however, is that the cost of expert inspection on every warranty claim would probably be more than the cost of fraud. As it were, most of the worker in repair depot are only of GED education level, if that, with a bit of training in handling whatever it is they are "fixing"--this is why component level repair is rarely a thing for most OEM, it's usually replacement in part or whole. In any case, this means that while an alternative is possible, it isn't viable. So fraudster are lumped with honest claims, one way or another.
@@justanoman6497 Most parts have a mean time between failure and some manufacturers like to use parts whose mean failure time is close to that of the warranty. So some of those parts do fail near the end of the warranty period, and even if the manufacturer wasn't aware that would happen at the time of manufacture, it becomes very obvious to them over time. IMO it's pretty scummy already for a manufacturer to knowingly do this, but some manufacturers make the situation even worse by not honoring the warranty when the customer returns products with these defects for repair, usually blaming the problem on the customer.
@@rodh1404 "Planned obsolescence" is the term you were looking for
33:50 wait until he finds out Netflix is bringing out a cheaper version with ads as sbscription option
You’d really think it wouldn’t be that hard for people to just do good, honest business that treats potential and/or existing customers properly. Yet here we are, with companies trying to con and fool people at every single turn, or just outright doing completely unnecessary and detrimental things in the hope of making a little extra cash.
Lol, Clicky, my dear sweet child, they put that 'warranty void' sticker over the screw hole *after* the item is assembled, so you (the consumer) have to puncture it to *disassemble* it. Then they know you messed with it. Warranty void.
The void warranty sticker is usually put over the screw *after* assembly as proof that the user opened up the device as warranties usually come with the catch that you don’t try to fix or modify ur device. This is a way to catch that kinda thing.
Additionally you can use a solvent like isopropyl alcohol to carefully take the sticker off and then reapply it after you’re done. (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧
Alcohol and a cotton swab to the rescue!
on your rant about how insane ads have gotten, the problem has gotten so bad on the fandom website, it glitches when you scroll a decent bit
24:10 Best exemple is how Doritos went from "standard, unnamed flavor" to "nacho cheese" flavor
As to the ad playing on the back of that semi truck, I agree with you 100%. I also don't understand why Billboards are legal, especially those new video billboards. I mean for god sakes, they're designed to distract people and hold their attention and then line high-speed interstates with them, SMH
The tracking-free thing on Healthline is purely when you disallow them from using cookies. You'll generally end up on their website through a Google search, they'll plaster the cookie selection over the page you're trying to read, and when you disallow all cookies, they send you to that page which is basically "yeah if you don't allow us to track you, then we don't allow you to read our website".
On a different note, I find it funny that you mention putting your phone and your wallet in the same pocket "like half the population does", because that was just you making a joke, but it's actually accurate... because women can't put their phone and their wallet in the same pocket. In fact, I have to wear men's pants to be able to put my phone alone in my pocket. Little offtopic perhaps but this is r/AssholeDesign...
instead, people who wear the BASTARD JEANS WITH NO FUCKING POCKETS put both in their bag and it STILL does it
That is actually changing.
The dress pants I bought for work 20 years ago had nearly-horizontal openings and were spacious. The dress pants I've bought in the past 5 years, however, have nearly-vertical openings that run halfway down the pocket, allowing your keys and all of your change to fall right out the moment you sit down.
And while you _could_ put your phone in that kind of pocket more easily, it will also fall out just as easily, usually shortly after you put the phone in the damn pocket.
Mind you, having badly designed pockets is definitely better than no pockets … or worse, _fake pockets._ So I know and fully admit that you ladies definitely have it worse.
stopfakepockets
Little offtopic sounds like it could be OT's younger brother😆
Purses are just outsourced pockets
i cant find mens pants in my size, most are too big and keep falling on my (lack of) ass, so i have to resign to womens pants. All that means i am constantly angry about having to carry a purse or backpack that never matches the outfit, because i need the pockets to be deep enough to put my hands in and be able to take the phone out if needed. mini rant lol
That article with all the adds is a shining example of why I run no less than 3 ad blockers and 2 privacy apps on firefox at all times
Whoa, taking data hostage to make you pay is shady as hell. At least in Germany you have a right to have a company show you any data they have of you and to get it deleted. I'm sure other must places have something similar? That shit can't not be somehow criminal lol
I love how most, if not all, of these asshole designs is just capitalism showing its true colors.
for example the toilet paper with printed dots instead of pressed is because the pressing is ussed when is doble layer(which means doble paper, which is more expensive than a lil of paint)
…specifically, 21st-Century _American_ capitalism.
We used to have laws to prevent this kind of sh1te, but the Republiqans continually shrieked, "ReGuLaTiOn *_BAD!!!!"_* and then removed all of those laws keeping all of this fscking crap under control.
@@erdfehlerfranciscogerman6730 I feel like "This restaurant just changed the price after you ordered" way more outrageous.
But it's not really a competition.
Both things are bad and need to stop
@@ngotemna8875 In this video, ALL of them are bad.
@@erdfehlerfranciscogerman6730 Yes, definitely
The add with the Coke made me remember something that happened in Portugal
During the 73 crisis that afected the US, the gas prices in portugal also were afected and increased a lot.
A few weeks later there was a spike in intoxications in medical emergencies.
What hapened was the people would just put a tube in the gasoline tank of parked cars and suck it into cans to fuel there own cars.
Remember kids, fluel is for the car and coke is for the people. Dont be portuguese, dont drink fluel.
During that crisis we also got the quote about consequences of globalization "why the f*k a war in the middle east would raise the prices of crochett threads?!"
As someone who create a lot characters for either roleplay or writing, the websites with tons of pop ups and ads are super annoying. I have to do a lot of research to be sure to write things that make sense. Diseases, names, traditions, countries, details about some fantasy species, some specific jobs, etc… It’s super hard to go trough articles with all of these ads, some websites even don’t allow you to read more than three sentences if you don’t pay or subscribe to their newsletter. Also, some ads take time to appears, the one in the middle of the text. So everytime I scroll to read, the page randomly move as the ads appears and take more and more space.
17:15 Oh no. The restaurant I work at has the ability to adjust prices but we done that almost exclusively for refunds when we're out of something. The only time we've even upcharged someone afaik was when they asked for avocado in the notes but didn't select it in the menu. It's such a dick move to upcharge people for no reason.
16:08 This is more than enough for me to close the window. Especially the pop-ups, no matter what they're for.
Oh, wait, no, I rectify. I enable developer mode so I can peacefully read the article within the source code.
…and if you know what you're doing, you can even hide the entire '' containing the popup. And do the same for other annoying crap on the page. Then you can still read it properly formatted but without the garbage.
@@John_Weiss OH MY SATAN, YES.
17:26
I have no idea if it was intended but it's funny anyway:
"Oh, now they're using Coke-zero instead of regular Cocaine"
😂
I was starting to have a bad evening because of my mental health, but whenever there's a dark time, there is a Click video to cheer me up :)
34:18 THIS. *IS.* REPORTABLE to the authorities. There's absolutely no way this is not a fraud crime.
11:50 - That is SO illegal here in Germany. According to law every purchaseable item needs a clearly visible price tag
Also in USA they show tax free price on those tags. You'll see the actual price at the check out.
@@kimnice Yeah. I heard that and even if it doesn't affect me - the very idea, that this is legal annoys me to no end...
I mean, what would change if shops were 'forced' to print the price you are going to pay on the checkout? People won't buy less... and they won't be pissed, if they learn how much more stuff costs. It's just a loose - loose situation for everyone...
The 1st time I visited the US I was so proud of myself figuring out the correct change to pay for something, only to be hit with a higher price at the till. It's so annoying! The only thing more annoying is tipping culture there; just pay your workers a living wage!
@@kimnice thats cuz the us is secretly 50 seperate countries and all of them have different taxes. Its easier for companies to just not bother rather than calculate all the differing tax for the price tags. Lots of small businesses will actually sell for the tag price and just pull tax out from that rather than adding it
@@librowyrm8332 Oh please, they obviously have the "real" prices in the system, as they know what you have to pay for them in the end. There is literally no reason not to print those on the tags except confusing people
To quote one of my most used images
"You best start believing in cyberpunk dystopias. You're in one"
When a company will start taking money from me for being inactive that is when I pull out my win card, I exercise my right to be forgotten
The reason these websites charge an inactivity fee, is because the funds in accounts have to be kept on their books in perpetuity otherwise. Imagine doing your taxes and accounting with thousands of accounts with $10 in them each - that aren’t yours, but that you have to keep track of.
If you automatically send it to the payment method on file, it might go to a closed account (and reopen it, resulting in low balance fees - or so I’ve heard happens). Or into the ether of a closed CC. Or one of the loadable cards you get for gifting that you might no longer have.
.....An entirely automated process that costs them ~0.00...01 cent per person to maintain. The 'inactivity' fees are just there as an excuse to devour the money on the account.
@@jasam01 server space isn’t free….
If you owned a site, would you be happy carrying data for someone who will never return? Even credit cards do that - my dad overpaid by $2-something and they rounded it down to close the account due to inactivity.
@@amyx231 Even so, it still sounds like penny-pinching. You'd use, what 32 bytes for the username, another 32 for the password hash, 256 for the email address, maybe another few hundred for their postal address, 16 for the card number. You're probably not going to go over 4KB for the entire account. Even if we budget a generous 1MB per account, that's still only a terabyte for a million accounts. You can buy a 10TB drive for a couple of hundred bucks. Keeping accounts around is only going to have significant costs if it involves storing a significant amount of data, like image or video hosting.
except that these companies have nigh infinite money anyway so the point is mute
I like to think about how confused new people would be coming in to a “Hello there Martha, have a landshark” 😄
Especially if a new person happens to be called Martha 😂
The very first Click video I watched he said my name and congratulated me on my new shirt. I was wearing a new shirt… (how does he know?!)
Can confirm as a fairly new fan- was extremely confused at the first few videos I found with Mango lol
The worst delivery thing ive encountered is "were sorry you missed us!" Emails that claim you didnt answer the door, when you were sat there waiting for it all day
To be fair with the Warranty Sticker:
Warranty stickers are designed to prevent opening the hardware, until damaged or removed. They put them on after assembly, so you can't destroy the hardware and claim it was a manufacturing error.
That's why you have to send your warranty items in to the manufacturer. They then check in-house by opening the device up and putting on a new warranty sticker.
Can we please discuss how his tie is awesomely tied? Gotta love that smooth triangle shape
Heck, it looks incredible even way below the neck
Click is so smooth everything he touches becomes smooth
I am having a terrible day. Depression is killing me. I missed class, it was hard to get out of the bed. At least I can laugh a little with your video. thank you.
Hope you're doing way better
Ik it’s a year later but I hope you’re doing better
Oh dear, hope you're doing great
3:54 With just one easy Click […]
Are you really that easy, Click?
Oh man that "taxes and fees" thing.
I was once picking companies to buy plastic gloves in bulk from, and found two companies selling at about the same TOTAL price.
But one was advertising as around $60 for the gloves and $30 for shipping.
The second was about $75 for the gloves and $15 for shipping.
I went with the second one. I'm not rewarding that kind of scummy "oh, our prices are the lowest!, don't mind the extra fees..." sort of behavior.