Why The Internet Is Starting To Break | Asmongold Reacts
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Paying money to still see ads…The absolute state of it.
Welcome to humanity .2024 i guess lol future looking pretty bleak
That was cable in a nutshell. You pay more not to see ads. But you had no control over what you watched with cable. You miss an episode or local TV picks up the program, and you get nothing but a blue screen. The kicker for this in my country is that they were years behind, and they leave out seasons for stuff like nightly election coverage. 😅
But streaming can mean shows get pulled so, damn. We're going back.
Welcome to the mobile market
>seeing ads
lmao. haven't see an ad since 2010
The very moment youtubes sub service forces an ad on me even when I paid them , it's gone. I'm not paying more when they are getting their ad money anyways. I'm paying to rid of the ads. Not to use the service.
I swear to God, if I were to cancel my Netflix subscription some day in the future, it might actually say, "Your sister really likes binging this show. Are you sure you want to deny her that?"
Creepy, I like it.
*also your sister owes us 300 dollars for being another user.
yar har fiddle dee dee, gonna have to go on the high seas
You just gave them an idea, nice.
Your reply”i should be a better brother and break my sister free from this indoctrination crappy show”
I remember when sailing the seven seas was disappearing. Now it is on the rise due to skyrocketing pricing and tiering.
At least TPB is back the other sites were 95%-100% fakes with viruses everywhere
I've been on the high seas for 20 years...I never left even when juicy land tempted me.
Sailing the seven seas never even started disappearing. You just became a landlover.
You should be able to cancel all recognised subscriptions from your banking app. I think it's so important to be able to control all of your subscriptions in one place. It's up to the company to check whether payment has been received for your account or not.
theres apps that can manage all your accounts from one app.
That's not at all something a bank should or would facilitate
I had this issue recently. I forgot an annual sub from a year ago and it went out. I asked my bank why it wasn't shown as a regular payment so I could cancel or prepare to pay it, nope...nothing to do with them apparently..so they have no idea who can take money out your account...sounds wrong
@blahmcblahface3965 your bank provides you with monthly statements it's up to you to keep track of your finances not the bank they can't keep track of each customers specific finances that's crazy to even expect that from the bank
@@spartan02elite I mean it would be completely automatic. You cancel Spotify for example, bank no longer lets Spotify take money out of your account, Spotify (again automatically) realises no payment has been made, service is withheld.
Ad revenue is drying up.
Pay walls everywhere!
It didn't dry up. They just need a find a way to make even more money because it's never enough and they won't stop until all the bones are picked clean.
@@coffeelocks "i know nothing about anything so im just going to say its greed"
Saturated market.
Yeah the cheap credit that ad agencies used to fund things is gone for the forseeable future.
@Padlock_Steve If it was in fact drying up why would Amazon bother incorporating ads into their basic streaming tier? Ads let these companies double dip on the amount of money they make per person so why wouldn't they shove ads in every nook and cranny they can find?
Pro tips:
Pirate media.
cancel subscriptions immediately.
use ad block.
dont use uber or door dash unless necessary/only order from places that deliver themselves instead of through a third party
I already do the first 3. I just gotta let go of my doordash addiction
I ragedquit all this services few months ago. It's a scam. Replaced most of my smartphone apps by vanced versions, put Ablock and scripts, invested in storage for quality torrents !
a regular ad block is not enough, switch to uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock.
How bout just if you're poor don't spend money on luxury services like food delivery. If you can afford it who gives a shit.
@@slayn2 the rest of the community thats suffering because the people that dont give a shit and keep rewarding this bad behavior. Absolutely nobody can "afford" to keep supporting these practices, it aint about money at this point
I usually just cancel my free trials immediately after accepting the trial. If they are extra scummy though, they won't let you use the time once you cancel, but most places do still allow you to use the free trial time. Just think of cancelling as part of the free trial process
Exactly and just put a reminder in your phone the day before its up. Never paid for a free trial.
I was getting the yt premium free trial each month with a new account for two years! Think they caught on so now i use a vpn to get premium annually from Ukraine
Had a situation where I signed up to a monthly gym subscription. At some point I wanted to cancel it, but they stated the contract was fixed on 1 year and I could only cancel it if I sent an email to some department and had to have a 'plausible' reason to cancel it.
I had to make some random bs up like not being able to use my gym sub because of my work schedule. They did ask for evidence but I just replied back saying shouldn't have to provide anything and should just be able to cancel a service if I'm no longer using it and fortunately that was enough for them to go ahead and do so.
Happened me as well except I had to keep paying the entire term out.
Last time I ever signed up for a gym card.
Okay, one thing : Uber/Doordash driver here. When you pay for priority that only means you get your order first. It does not mean you get your delivery in 10 minutes, or 15 minutes. If you are priority it means you are the 1st person I drive to. You get no other special privileges. I don't care what the app promises you. Also beware. The driver could also know the other person address and could deliver to them first anyways. As well as they could be multi apping and have another to stack with yours going your direction.
TLDR : Priority delivery is a scam. Don't buy it. Waste of money.
As a driver we don't even have any way to know you payed for priority so yeah scam lol
We already knew it but I respect and appreciate your Honesty in hustling. Gotta eat next Week.
Priority delivery really just means your food won't be cold and soggy when it gets to you.
@@Erik52079 that’s not true either, and I would never promise that to a customer.
As a driver I don't know what fees you are paying. I'm sorry if they charge too much. I do my best to give good service for a good price. The app pays me $2 to $3 dollars per order now. It's halfway to slavery.
Thomas Sowell said, the biggest enemy of business is the businessman.
Sowell is a very smart man.
Watched a video of him today. In his 90s and still sharp and articulate as ever.
wow so deep lil bro .
One of the smartest guys on the planet right there
@@musashi542 Go back to the shallow end kid
i have 0 subscrbtions. i pirate everything.
You're so cool bro 😐
straight to jail
@@1xRacer Corposimp
Hell yeah bro, I’m right there with you. It sucks closing pop up ads on movies joy constantly but it beats paying for streaming
@@zakhoyt7771 you need to get a better adblocker mate 😁
I litterally got fired from tech support, because I didnt try to do upsells, but tried to fix the customers problems instead.
It really is messed up
Sounds like a seriously shitty IT firm. Most aren't like that, and clients don't stay with the bad ones for long.
Every time a company asks me why I'm canceling my subscription I select "other" and type in the text slot "I just farted real hard".
I type "Predatory business practices - leave me the F alone."
Loool
lmaooo
" I shidded :( "
HAHAHAHAHA
Even worse on many subscription sites now is that when you select cancel, they bring you to a page that lists all the benefits and says "Keep Subscription" as a big bright button. And then you literally can't find the confirm cancellation because its almost the exact same color as the background and is tiny size 9 text at the bottom of the page. Its insane.
Here in Germany you can legally cancel any service by sending a letter stating so to the company. Even better, if they ignore it, you can get all the money back from that point on. Helped me loads to get out of some weird subscriptions
You can sign up for a phone line with ATT direct on their site, but if you wanna cancel you gotta call their customer service and be put on hold.
That was recently made illegal in EU, everyone is now forced to provide an easy and clear way to unsubscribe when operating within the EU.
Its insanely scummy what these companies do. For example, Blizzard made by default,automatic billing for montly wow sub. So i opted out,later on cancelled my subscription. Of course,it was a bit hard to find,and then " ohh we so sorry you leave" sob story. Then later on renewed my sub,and put me back on to automatic montly billing without any confirmation. I was baffled,never subbed again.
@@MarcLuckschcommon EU W i guess.
Worked as a CSR at ATT around 10 years ago. Can confirm Zach’s upsell story. They didn’t care about fixing people’s issues. They only cared about selling their U-Verse service.
I'm in Canada here, and when talking about Amazon pre-selecting the 'alternative delivery time' option, it is 100% true. My next day delivery (with prime) was unselected and the alternative one was. It does seem to be hit and miss though. Sometimes its there, sometimes it's not. It may be a situation where the item you're getting wasn't originally 'available' for next-day shipping but a particular deal/sale made it so and it was a 'new' option that wasn't normally available because the item usually needed to be imported.
Also in Canada this actually happens to me pretty often.
In Baltimore we call it hacking a Uber, that’s when you find a driver you like and get their direct contact info. The driver gets all the cash I get a ride for half price
Win Win for me and driver
Alil loss for the app
We actually do that with normal cabs in Bmore too. Or if you see someone shaking their hand below their waist on the side of the road. That person wants to pay cash for a lift
that sounds pretty great actually, fuck uber, word of mouth is the way to go
I think they use to call that position a paid chauffeur. He just doesn't live under your roof. lol.
Just never announce the drivers name to other people. He's committing a "crime" that the government prefers to rob you over rather than arrest you. He's doing you a favour, don't get him nailed for tax evasion.
Had an uber driver that would pick me up every morning while I didn't have a car, and just ended up getting his contact info and paying him directly. (I stopped using Uber) He would also give me a heads up when he wouldn't be available. It was pretty sweet while it lasted.
The day Gaben passes the torch we are doomed.
There is a way to know the psychology of the kind of person that needs to take over. It’s not that complicated. People just don’t know human behavior that well these days.
I feel it’s getting better considering the patterns of malevolence in power encouraging people to figure out the nature in others and themselves.
Not Steam please 😢
@@MyPlaylistWillSaveAmerica I've been saying for a while to people need to care more who they hire/pass the torch to
@@Astaticembrace they all eventually saw the shekels and sold out
The day valve becomes a publicly traded company is the true sign of the end
Reminds me of a video Louis Rossman put up talking about how he signed up for LA Fitness online, but to cancel he had to send certified mail and they still tried to say they never got his mail until he read them the confirmation number
Some gyms require you to allow them to pull your membership fee directly from your checking account, and they often have a contract that requires you to notify them 30 days in advance of your cancellation. You can have your banker freeze their ability to pull the funds, but then you'd have to take them to court to avoid having them send the unpaid account to collections if you don't pay the extra 30 days. Often times these gyms will turn off your door key card too. They get sued until they pull their heads out of their backsides for air. It's ridiculous.
I'm glad my gym doesn't do subscription memberships. Instead you just have the option to pay for a 1-month, 3-month or 6-month card that you pay for upfront and then you just renew it whenever it runs out. None of the subscription BS.
Prime video just started charging an extra $3 or $4 a month JUST to not have ads even though we already pay an insane amount every year for Amazon Prime. Insane.
Yea I just canceled because of that, every service is starting do it as well.
and they increase the price almost every year. But if you do buy a lot of stuff of Amazon, the Prime membership is worth the price alone in the money you save on shipping costs
@@Blink_____ that is valid
I would cancel Prime out of spite if the shipping deal wasn't still good.
@@ianashmore9910 same
Fun fact if someone you know dies and a debt collector asks to pay any amount refuse, do not give them a single penny. They can aruge that the partial payment is proof that you assumed responsibility and for you the inherent the debt
You only legally have to pay those you have an agreement with. No one makes agreements with debt collectors, so no one is obliged to pay them. They buy the debt cheap, and then demmand the whole amount. Just ignore them.
@@dannyblitz2122 no one "should" make agreements with them, yet reality shows us over and over again that people do pay out of ignorance of informing themselves. For there would not be debt collectors to begin with .
And remember, they have absolutely no authority at all! Do not even let them on your property.
Depending on the amount, they can go after the estate. I've seen it happen. But your advice is spot on. Make them go through that avenue
@@dannyblitz2122 This is not true, you are not only legally obligated to pay those you have an agreement with. You are only obligated to the amount that you agreed to but if a creditor assigns your debt to a collection agency then they have standing to sue you. (at least under NY law but I assume it is the same elsewhere).
funny enough, some companies now cancel your sub right away when you cancel. Adobe e.g. if you have a monthly payment subscription for 1 year, they let you cancel within that year but you have to pay for whatever is still up for the year but cancel your access that same day.
33:23 Genshin Impact by Mihoyo does this dark pattern. When you uninstall it, it shows up a message begging you to not uninstall with a crying character
This is the Cyberpunk story. The only remaining on the plot is for a Ai to malfunction (or rogue or anything you call it), to crash the entire Internet. Considering how much the economy is dependant on the Internet imagine the fallout.
Musk is probably working on Adam Smasher as we speak
@@godemperorofmemekind4170unironically think that if anyone were to create a murderer cyborg it would be him, dude is a weirdo
I believe the internet in Cyberpunk went to hell cause a dude uploaded a super virus to try and "free" the internet. It succeeded, but the corpos adapted and made their own internet spaces, thus creating more censorship than before (correct me of I'm wrong).
Would it surprise you to learn that AEGIS has been an active AI in use by the US navy since the late 1980s?
Except cyberpunk dystopias are actually cool.
Our dystopia is fucking gay and lame as shit.
the dead internet theory is looking more and more real by the day
shhhhhhhhh the walls have teeth
Shhhh i dont exist~ wake up! Wake up! You are in a coma! Martha your wife is trying to reach you!
Do you want to buy horse feed?
Russian horse feed brand лошадь
Big discount
Yours, real man Dmitry
what's the dead Internet theory?
@@lelzechtry using the internet to find it
I refuse to buy any food that is delivered from any of the apps. It’s absolutely ridiculous how many people I know spend SO much money having almost all of their meals delivered. We wonder why we don’t have excess money these days but people are also way worse at money management these days.
We’re way worse today because these companies have made it easier than ever to spend money quicker than ever. It’s psychological.
38:30 this is so true, I was thinking on how we used to pirate everything and having a 'original' game was such a big deal back then, the cd was different, the packaging was top level, you really felt like it was a higher experience. Now with steam and other services you basically just own 'original' games, but they don't feel as good as they used to be, and on top of that you don't even own them, its just digital downloads (I'm not even gonna mention the predatory MTX etc), if the internet goes down there it goes your collection of non existing games, sad times..
This is happening to us truck drivers, Uber, and Amazon entered the market. Destroying rates, killing small companies.
you guys will have to hijack your own loads soon...stop somewhere on the way to the drop point and just distribute the stuff to people....its gonna happen soon im sure
Then call it "competition"... Just because they can does not mean they should.. But money.
@@paulx3274 not only that, once a big corp fails or falls to competition they get government bailouts and get millions, while the little guys have to eat shit and die.
once amazon and uber starts raising prices, they will go bust even faster than those small companies, trust me. These corporations do not last long once people aren't interested in their services anymore (because of the price)
@@sten260 theyll just drop prices once the waters have been tested. They're not stupid.
8:14 Louis Rossman did a video about how he was paying for 4K Netflix, but only getting 720p
All hail Mr Clinton!!
i wouldl ove to cancel 4 k and keep multi screens but that is impossible.
it doesn't happen to me, you just need to go to your profile settings and select always use max quality, not auto
@@qwertyrewtywytertyI think it wasnt that the setting isnt available to him in the app but more so that He doesnt want to use Nettlix' proprietary app (due to privacy reasons) and want to use the browser instead, and the browser wont give him the 4K option. thats the gist of it. I havent seen his video in a while so correct me if I'm wrong.
wonder if it was ISP throttling
Thank you for finding these videos. I usually go straight to the video and watch them, without the interruptions, so I don't have to listen to you start and stop the video.
As far as the Amazon cart selecting slower delivery, seems to happen on items without next-day or same-day, especially when you have a big cart with items coming from different locations and they can try to put items into a single delivery date
The internet, the housing market, and the economy in general are all going to hell. A zombie apocalypse would be more preferable.
indeed at least we could do some sports battling them
The deaths of millions to billions of people to feral creature eating them alive, total breakdown of society, and mass worldwide panic is preferable because to prices of things are increasing? You are one sheltered person
and all of this happens because some monopolies are allowed to run wild, maybe in the future we will have Amazon/Netflix bounty hunters or pinkertons
@@weiserwolf580 Pinkertons are already a thing for companies tho. They didn't just "stop existing" lol.
Make sure it's going to be like Road of the Dead
The saddest thing is the healthcare & insurance systems in US are FAR more predatory & “scammy” then even Uber
but muh us hEaThCaRe...dOnT foRGeT aBouT dAt!!
@@DG-kr8pt until recently it was literally illegal to not pay for health insurance. if you couldn't afford it you're fucked. the most basic coverage is like min $300 a month. everything requires insurance, from your existence (life) to car to even just renting an apartment. it doesn't help anybody except the people collecting. you may as well have saved the money and put it into repairs/health when needed. instead you're forced to pay all your life for things you don't need. some states will give out a penalty for not enrolling and proving you have health insurance. the US is fucked, but it's not just the US
it only became Illegal because of obamacare, before that it wasn't uncommon to not have health insurance or car insurance.
@@dearmadelineHonestly would rather have American healthcare than Canadian healthcare
Death & Taxes
& Insurance
Thanks for the update Ross. Doing my part by spreading the word. Keep up the 👍
I think with Gyms and things like that that require cancellation in person is because you need to hand over your membership card. While they can create your profile and set you up online/phone and when you come in the first time you pick up the card or its mailed to you. But this is likely because those cards all have the same access key to get through the doors, so they gotta make sure you arent cancelling and then still coming in to use the facilities.
Your job as a consumer in a free market is to stop using the products or services that do not serve you. If you're interacting with bad products, you're telling the market that they're worth it to you. So they keep in that direction.
Don't interact with things that aren't good, or they'll never get better.
Major key!!
And the problem with that is they own everything. With nowhere else you can go to get x show. Well unless you know you pirate which I would never ;)
For real, a lot of these problems are caused by the consumers allowing stupid practices to exist. Ubereats was always a scam, and yet people are too lazy to save some money to get the food themselves
@@DeputyFish Don't watch the show then. You don't need to watch the show.
@@Lowlightt no. its a show ive watched for a long time before they bought it. and now i cant watch it without buying there subscription.
(so again i would rather "not" pirate it)
The great irony that once a company goes "public" they're no longer in service to providing better service at a cheaper price and end up being owned and ran by the same group of people. Yet at the same time, we say our government is "public", yet they're also not concerned with better service at a cheaper price and tend to be owned by the same group of people. Apply everything he said about companies and their share holders to the government..
The highest investors (the rich) have the final say in both situations. XD
@@KAMFP exactly. When most peopel think about "the rich" they think about some local business person who has a million dollar worth of investments, or the spoil kid at their school who's dad had money. They don't realize that there's a level of rich that is almost unfathomable. Those people don't care if you increase taxes on them...they just raise their prices. They don't care if you pass regulations, they can afford it but start ups can't.
well obviously the difference is that government just takes your money using violence and company still has to earn your money.
But I'm not too worried, because delivery business like Uber and Amazon cannot really be a "dangerous" monopoly. The only reason why they became so big, is that they were able to be cheaper than others. Once they are not so cheap anymore, they will immediately implode and go bankrupt, because everybody else knows how to deliver shit too. It's a very primitive business, they have no moat really, that protects them from competitors except the price
Why do you think they all hate Trump so much? Because he's seen the game from the inside and knows how to unrig everything they have spent decades and decades carefully rigging.
Public companies and governments are the complete opposite. As a shareholder, you get paid part of the profit. As citizen, you pay.
i like how he left out "youtube sucks" in the beginning when he listed all other online services
If you’re anything like me, I live on CZcams and get a lot of value out of it. I listen to music while I work, DIY videos for fixing things, it has vids who help me when I’m stuck in games etc. For me, it’s almost the only one I don’t mind having a premium account for these days. The rest can get out 😂😂
Sorry but a quick correction at the 32:00 mark, actually putting the buttons on opposite sides isn't to get you to go in circles. It may be a good byproduct of the action, but it's the companies way of protecting themselves and they have a legal standing in doing so because with you proceeding to follow the action with the buttons not being in the same place you as the consumer are actively reading the button and prompt to make an active decision and not just a quick passive one that could happen by accident but rather it it happening on purpose which can be fought in court if you as the consumer try to defraud the company out of easy money due to many instances of lucrative refund policies that payout first and ask questions later
This is why Adblockers and piracy is your *DUTY*
Yep, Adblocker, PrivacyBadger, and Sponsorblock ftw.
*Salutes*
Always has been, especially adblock. No ads for me for over a decade, thank god.
On th' high seas, ye be either a scurvy dog o' th' Crown or a pirate, free as th' wind, arrr!
True! Companies only get away with this shit because sheeple dont know any better to stop using it. Stop giving them money and theyll change what theyre offering you.
Publicly traded companies are legally required to do things for the benefit of the investors (1916 Dodge v Ford), not consumers. That ruling has done nothing but enable exploitation.
Yes but people also keep pretending like they would do otherwise but dont.
Everybody with a bit of money invests it in the stock market due to inflation.
Many of use viewers here included. Does not matter if its 500$ or 50.000$.
And which companies do you pick. The one which have the greatest potential of going up or that pay the highest dividends.
And OH WONDER the companies HAVE act like they do because if they do not and their numbers look bad people will jump off ship.
And just with that you are bankrupt.
@@1337Jogi Retail traders have no power over company's decisions.
Twitter was publicly traded and doing strictly the opposite.
Actually no, it was doing things only to benefit the employees.
@@1337Jogi How did you miss the point entirely? Yes they would do otherwise, but not always, as such behaviour is unjustifiable. With the ruling that behaviour is now justifiable.
It's turned a legal action of "you are exploiting your customers/employees because of greed" to "We're not doing this because of greed, we are doing this for our investors" as they pay themselves millions in bonuses for doing such a good job for investors...
Now for funsies go look up what that old Dodge Brothers badge looked like.
Amazon Prime has never fulfilled Next day shipping for Puerto Rico. It used to take 3-5 days. Nowdays you purchase an item and it does not ship until 7days pass. The item arrives 10-12 days after purchase date.
As wise man once said: "If purchase isn't ownership, then piracy is not theft"
I worked for a small commercial printer... we were using a super old version of adobe because it was a one time fee instead of their INSANE monthly sub fee.
One of the employees accidentally hit the automatic update button on one of the computers and it broke that old version of it, forcing you to upgrade to the sub model. We couldn't use that computer for photoshop anymore.
did he get fired for that?
@@ChickenMcThiccken why would an employee get fired for the company not having a proper backup process or IT management of it's computer infrastructure.
@@ChickenMcThiccken honest mistake, no malice and no knowledge about it (presumably)
@@ChickenMcThiccken I sure hope not, as the fault for that was on IT (or whoever was in charge of the computers). Just something as simple as blocking Photoshop in the firewall would've done the trick already to prevent problems like that.
If only there were open source freeware that could do all the same things....
Cancelling is super easy. Just dispute the charges with your credit card company and state "refused to cancel my subscription".
I remembered my psn got taken over. I proved it was me each time i called cuz someone homed a different playstation as the main. You have to do it yearly and it can't be undone without help.
Spent weeks proving im me. Had psn messages showing the guy admits he bought my account. Was told tough luck until i threatened to cancel and refund my recent purchases.
They tried to "remind" (it was a threat) that I'd lose my account that way. I reminded them that its no longer my account as it is, and they refused to fix it. Also asked to speak to legal afterward.
Right afterwards, they asked me to give them a day and in 24 hours they fixed it. I know not the exact same, but persistence is powerful here.
The subscription may not be officially canceled though and they could keep adding up money that you "owe" them. Idk how much of a problem that can be though
That's more difficult than signing up... You can sign up with a single check box in check out. But to cancel you have to call your bank? Or can you dispute online now?
Incorrect. Visa and Mastercard will reinstate the recurring charges even if you dispute it or change your card number. The merchant may also just refuse to cancel the request on the basis of 'I did not receive this cancellation request so revert to the terms and conditions you didn't read'.
Just use a privacy card. You pay once then delete the card, therefore you cannot be charged again.
The shipping thing only happens to me when I buy multiple items and they don't all qualify for the fastest shipping
I started experiencing issues with Amazon these past two years, it seems. I agree with what you are saying that it has been everything going up. Fast food, regular food, FOOD,
That "speedy delivery" fee is just another markup. I used to do doordash and ubereats. I've had customers complain they paid for the faster service, and it's still a stacked order. The only difference I've noticed is it gets your food dropped off first, but also picked up first. So if I pick up your order first, then drive to the next resteraunt and have to wait 10 minutes for tge 2nd order, then your food just sat for an extra 10+ minutes.
I did it one time and it was late and they offered $5 in credits. It wasn't a huge loss but it did teach me that "priority delivery" is bullshit.
@Viper3220 yes its ridiculous how much customers pay in markup fees. And all of $2 is passed on to the driver. Majority of trip offers was $4.25 when I was doing gig apps. I gave up doing these gigs Aug of last year after 2 years of it and almost 70k miles on my vehicle I'm still making payments on. My car declined in value from $13k in 2021 to barely over $7k late last year.
Don't forget the extra cost of the bribe... *Cough* ...tip
@randomaccount53793 I've never been extorted and ordered delivery. But as an ex driver, I look at the tip as a bid. Customers tip, and drivers see the offer as a bid on whether or not we want to accept that contract.
I get why people who order delivery don't want to tip much, if any at all after paying 2x, 3x normal price. And then these companies do all they can to force drivers to accept the scum offers like $2.25-$4 to use own vehicle, own gas to drive to the resteraunt, wait up to 15+ minutes quiet often, them drive to customers residents, and deal with whatever may come up ei. pets not on leash, rain, snow, unlit pathways at night, unsafe neighborhoods and all else that entails. Then driver usually is mad at customer for not tipping much and customer is made at driver because they just paid $20 for a 6pc nugget and small fries and coke, and didn't get BBQ sauce for their nuggets.
I'm so happy to be away from this predatory service thar preys in both drivers and customers along with resteraunts.
Ah it must be like that everywhere then, except thats not at all my experience delivering.
This is why people like Gaben for Valve/Steam is so important. Businessman who stick to principles and values of their customers will always outlast those who stick to monetary gain.
In 10 Years there will be 3 different Ubers but there will always be one Steam because nobody feels the need to move to different platforms when Steam is affordable and honest. Unlike Uber and these other companies who offer no value or trust to their customers.
Value was a major leader in creating micro transactions and lootboxes
They charge more to the sellers because they control the market.
@@SaltyChickenDip I don't give a rats behind how much game companies have to pay to be listed on steam. As long as most of the ones I want are on steam, and the service works how I want it to, and the price to me is reasonable, I will keep using it. Not my problem if it makes game companies have a harder time.
Valve is not saint either. They are one who popularised loot boxes and other now hated gaming practices. A lot of customer friendly things they have exists because of law of EU or Australia.
@@ruukinen the more they charge the sellers the more the seller charges you.
long live gabe
the mimimun for prime was for the 1day/next day shipping. as opposed to their two day shipping that was often late.
As an exPizza place manager, we had drivers. Coverage only was a specific area according to the "region" of your franchise. You don't deliver outside your licensed range. In some cases you could stretch the range a few miles, but eventually you're cutting into another franchise owner's region and then you'll get complaints or people saying "You did it that one time, why not now?" when it's winter time, conditions aren't great, and they WILL complain if their delivery is late to get a free, so a lot of franchise owners will not take the risk. Aside from that. Drivers are in a pool. Each get an order according to their placement on the pool and then they'll get attachment locations within range of that order. Like say streets 1-5 are in the north and 6-10 are in the south. We aren't going to send driver 1 to 1st street and driver 2 to 2nd street while there is an order to go to 9th street. So it's first come first serve, get there get back, take proximity orders with you to save fuel for the drivers and orders get delivered faster and more logically. Yes, it can be a little unbalanced where driver 1 might get 3 orders, ie: 3 orders to 10th, while 1 order for 1st. It happens, but not everyone tips. That driver delivering 3 orders will take longer to get back, so the driver who went to 1st would wait as long as possible for a second order, then go, or be back and take the next 2 if possible.
We just had to go for the "Cyberpunk Dystopian Nightmare" world didn't we?
Minus all the cool cybernetics
1970: Lets go for the Star Trek world
1999: We are getting The Matrix world but we get cool sunglasses at least?
2024: We are getting Cyberpunk 2044 but we don't get bionics?
@@izauraschmidt2756it's coming soon
Yeah dude, we're getting the Cyberpunk Dystopia ending.
dont worry its coming. im predicting the deus ex issue when you need implants for your job but for implants you need to buy immune suppressants or you die.
So I was on the mod team during the PS4 launch. We reported over and over the feedback about how hard it is to cancel. Needless to say... the dev team and our contacts agreed, they took the feedback over and over and wanted to change it... but it was mysteriously never approved for a fix by executive leadership. Then, when the update we were testing actually came out... it was EVEN DEEPER in the menu and now asked you for that "why" screen rather than keeping it optional.
This is real, really real shit happening daily in offices all over the world at astonishing rates. We are POWERLESS against this, as long as this remains laissez-faire. Which seems pretty obvious, since biz wants everything entirely de-regulated and they culturally sell the myth that 'oh don't worry about rules, competition will create rules" which is true. The rule is: If you can screw with someone the same way everyone else is screwing with someone, those someones will learn to accept the abuse. That's the real rule and product of competition, always. The race to the bottom really hurts when you finally hit the bottom and the engines keep pushing you down harder into the dirt.
The "good ones" have increasingly diminishing power in these huge corps who limit themselves exclusively by legality and laugh at the idea of morality ruling them. Like, when was the list time you heard about a CEO being promoted from the board because they 'really look out for the consumer'? lol
This tactic means we have one resort: Extensive legislation. It's just the purely logical response to their logical tactics. Absolutely blows my mind there's normal people out there making like 25K a year who will advocate for these corps "right" to screw us over like it's some moral high ground when it's really just pure ignorance and huffing propaganda as a hobby that makes them think that.
My favorite thing to do is put the things I need in my cart and just leave it for a while. I tend to get a notification to use a coupon or discount on my items after a day or two.
-Calls spectrum for technical support
-Gets a representative in another country with an accent i can't understand.
-Calls to cancel service
-Gets charismatic person who speaks perfect english trying to sell me a phone.
"Pay money to save money"
lmao
Pay less pirate more 😂 pity we can't pirate pirate food lol
@@coffeebean_tamer thats called dumpster diving.
@@coffeebean_tamer You can create copies of fruits and vegetables. You need the same thing as with torrents - seeds.
man FR, I dropped Amazon, half the shit doesn't even come next day anymore and I'm not paying to watch ads, I dumped Netflix months ago
The more you buy, the more you save! 😎
This is why Piracy and Adblock is so important. If you don't have one use one. You gotta show that if the service isn't worth it that you can always take it without giving them a single penny. The only way to change them is to actually deny them their money.
That last sentence needs to be the first page in every web browser. It is the only way we can effect change in games, media, everything else
@@bingus549 even politic
jusrt dont pay the tax and they run out of money in 1 week or less (if everyone does it of course)
No politics is the one thing that this doesn't apply to.
If anyone sends you to retention instead of canceling your subscription, just tell them your going to federal prison for tax evasion. They always cancel my subscription after that.
the worst part about the monthly is when I compare the final price, fee plus the other bs, it is literally the same.
I got 10% off of the total price or something like that, but the service fee is way higher on my side. So the final price is the same, thought I have the monthly sub.
On your companies sell at a loss to break into a market.
My town had 3 video stores back in the day (some of these young whipper snappers ain’t ever even been in one I bet). Anyway, Movie Gallery moves into town. Any movie, any game, $1 dollar rental.
Kept the price there until the other 3 stores had to shut down. Once they were gone, $5 a rental.
It really does happen in every field.
i worked in pizza delivery, but in europe. On busy days we delivered up to 3 orders at once. And there is usually a guy who knows every street who plans the route. If one guy goes west he wouldnt have a delivery east, especially if he delivers 3. On a normal day 2 is pretty standard. And it also depends on the orders coming in. Sometimes you only deliver a single one.
also those delivery options depend on what is in stock in amazon warehouses "near you" thats why it might not happen to you
15:59 I’ve noticed fast food apps are starting to do “online only” deals while increasing prices of the menu on the app. They try to trick ya with a coupon but it ends up more expensive than the og prices without the deal
That’s a common practice in some countries. They jack up the prices by 20-50% and then have a discount for the same amount for all products(sometimes even less) so that you think you get a deal. All while having a whole section of “discounted restaurants” doing this, where you tend to look for a deal more often than looking at all the restaurants, some of which are more honest about the real price of their products. Kid you not, most of the restaurants in that section have food at 200% price (compared to in house) and have a 50% (best case scenario) discount, lol
people talk about the insane price of fast food and ive paid it too but if you get the apps you get free food and discounts. im paying like 4 bucks for a meal of fries and burger then i got some pop or beer or something from somewhere else.. if you go pick it up its cheap. if you do delivery its 20 bucks..
Depends on the region and the place. Where I live, direct in person ordering or ordering through the drive thru it's more expensive than ordering on the McDonald's app. I simply order what I want and then go through drive thru and tell them my order code. The franchises around me are making the money off of Gen X and Boomers that don't know how to use the apps efficiently. Granted, the entire pricing of McDonalds has gotten more expensive, yes, but that's in app, delivery or pickup. I'm stingy, I don't do delivery just to save $10-$15. Hubby and I spend 20 min using different deals to see which is the best bargain. I can get $35 worth of food for $20. Now McDonalds has seen less of me as I've changed my eating habits to be less processed, so they probably hate me there.
another issue is many people have a difficult time saying NO thanks to an upsell under pressure
Amazon was always free two day delivery here in the states. Not sure if next day is a thing in uk though. I’ve also been on prime for 10 years too though so maybe it was something they advertised later
What you said about Australia is kind of true, but same as USA, it still happens all the time, places boost their prices and then put a big "sale" sticker on it for the same price it was the week before.
I found the Mc Donals thing interesting. Here things are actually cheaper if you use the app AND go into the store, not sure about ordering it through uber eats though.
My question is - when people see how much all of this adds up to on the app, what in the flying fuck possesses them to say yes and hit proceed? I've gone through this a few times and each time I see the final price I say Nope, I just can't justify it, and delete the app.
I have no subscriptions for that reason. But my wife cannot help herself, Its quite frustrating how often she "needs" to subscribe to a new service.
All I'm thinking when watching this is, "Everyone's whinging about their corporate overlords instead of just consuming less." The real problem is rampant consumerism. Simple supply and demand and people that have forgotten how absurd it is to get 6 chicken nuggets delivered to your house.
there's a way to "tag" your email when you sign up with a company. like whenever you get a new phone or have to open a new account to use a service. you can add a +companyname somewhere in your address, so when ever you get random spam, you can see EXACTLY which company sold it.
interesting idea
Explain this. Can you give an example? Like, give a fake address and then add what you mean to it afterwards.
You mean making a new email for every signup?
@@spacejunk2186 no you can use diff emails by tagging the company in your current email. no new account needed. theres youtube videos that explain it more accurately
Doesn't work properly since a lot of people know the trick. You just run something to delete anything between + and @.
The real trick is to use anonymous emails like DuckDuckGo Email or SimpleLogin, or anything of the sort.
For pizza delivery, it depends on the place a well as time of day. If you call during the dinner rush, most places the driver is taking multiple orders. They will even take people who ordered after you if it is close to where the oldest order is going.
I worked in tech support and they asked us to upsell a product that had nothing to do with what we were helping the customer with and do a whole presentation spiel in the middle of them trying to get help. Our whole team just didn't do it. Management came and asked why we weren't doing it. I told them it had nothing to do with what we were helping the customer with (in a nice way). Management stopped asking us to do that bs.
"Tiering is like a psychological trick"
"There is nothing wrong with tiering"
(when it's not a psychological trick...)
I think the bigger problem is that the barrier for entry becomes too high in terms of amount of regulation.
Think about housing, before - if you had a piece of land you just build a house. Now it's literally illegal - you need to hire an architect, enginner, who need to hire a lawyer to navigate the regulation, then you need to hire a licensed electrician, plumber and even a contractor. So barrier to entry is too high. It's become illegal to start small and people just don't have millions lying around.
That is because we did a bad job at pruning that tree of liberty to keep it healthy. Gave up our freedoms for trash convenience. Need to go back. Government shouldn't have much say in any of that stuff.
Proper regulation is the opposite of the issue. That’s also a false equivalency. Zoning laws and companies acting as monopolies are not the same. More regulation would put a cap on things like a “service fee” that really just means we’re charging you to send packets from your phone, to our servers, to the restaurant you’re ordering from. Regulation would make life more affordable, but the people in government who are bank rolled by corporations don’t want that.
@@HollowdTV Regulation has ONLY helped the giant corporations pull up the ladder preventing others to reach where they are. Relying on the government to fix that is a huge folly. The government only wants to consolidate everything because it is easier to control things that way. The more centralized EVERYTHING is, the more the government likes it.
@@HollowdTV Especially housing. Housing regulation is important as shit, you don't want entire neighborhoods falling over because some contractor didn't think making sure the house didn't collapse after 5 years was important.
@@HollowdTV Stopping using the service would put an end to predatory practices. Regulation would make it so the business has to now search for a new way to make money, or start firing employees because it can't afford wages, or go bankrupt when inevitably firings get regulated next, which is where this kind of thinking of "let the government fix it" inevitably leads.
For the delivery part: this reminds me of the triangle of services - it is good, fast and cheap, and you get to choose 2 of those. 10 years ago delivering in an hour was considered normal (big city)
the thing with subscriptions depends on the app, example like Spotify
i use student plan and it saves me a lot of mobile data usage thanks to downloading songs, in my opinion as long that the app gives you an actual benefit that could help you outside of it its worth
For the past 10-15 years, online tech companies had the cheapest price because they could sacrifice profits as long as it lead to growing market shares.
Now that market shares have stagnated (mostly due to the saturation of regional markets), they have to turn a profit.
Yup, very much like the DotCom bubble. Most of these services operate in the red so they can beat out competition with the promise to investors of market dominance. Once they get their dominance, however, all the investors addicted to shorts and instant returns just cut and run, leaving the service alone in a field of crippling stagnation. Ads and scummy tactics are all they can do to stay afloat now.
Of course that requires having a hefty sum of spending money to start with, so ah... where do you think all of that money comes from? I can tell you that it's not coming from those startups.
@@thenonexistinghero "The line is going to the roof, baby!"
the downfall of the internet began when smartphones appeared and all the npcs flooded in.
get the fcuk off my internet, normies!
I watched this video when it came out and only now do I see that there should indeed be a 1 month option in the ps plus plans. In the top right corner of the subscribtion panel there is a L2/R2 to switch payment plans, but the point he makes still stands strong.
The podcast Better Offline does an excellent job explaining much of this. Also Electronic Frontier Foundation's podcast How to Fix the Internet.
Most of the problems in our current society can be summarized by the fact that it wasn't good enough for these companies to make money, or even a LOT of money. But they needed to make ALL of the money. And in trying to make all of the money, they severely damaged potentially beyond repair their ability to make any money.
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Yup. And part of it is an old legal case that made it mandatory for the benefit of shareholders. Dodge v. Ford Motor Co. No one at that time could've predicted it'd turn out the way it did today.
Middle management is the biggest problem in our society, from government to massive corporations to small businesses, you have excessive administration or middle management that does nothing but inflates the cost of business
“Are you sure you want to cancel your subscription to continue living?”
everyone on that free trial version, nobody knows when that ends lol
The last subscription service I purchased was for a month of wow 10 years ago. Since then I've been singing "yar har fiddle tee dee" and unironically getting better service.
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Dude cancellation is such a hassle these days. I had subscribed a language learning app and after figuring out where it actually is I can cancel it prompted me no joke like 3 times the question if I really want to cancel and always giving me a different optional offer... OR in another instance the service handled their subscription or payment not sure over a different service? so I had to go through my mails and see I got a mail for the payment from someone else and then cancel over their site using the information inside that one mail.
Just got U Ride in my hometown. People online said "support your local cab businesses!"
Called a cab for work the next day. Driver didnt show up. Called them back after half an hour. They said "our driver showed up and no one was there". I was late for work. Definitely using U Ride next time.
"do you think its because of me" 10:54
No disrespect, but I do in fact believe that asmons mom and GF were buying a bunch of stuff because he had deep pockets and hes a hoarder.
this reminds me of my grandma who was trying to sell a home but packed every room. some people really do love buying shit and that's all there is to it.
I have been saying this exact same thing about food delivery sites everytime some Driver went on a rant about Customers not tipping. (Which imo, is uncool but not mandatory.)
They can afford to pay Drivers more because they have 3 fees before the tip is even an option, but they dont because they want to keep the most they can for themselves.
The one company I might call an exception regarding membership/subscriptions is Costco. It’s crazy how much cheaper it is than a regular grocery store. Then on top of that if you have a platinum membership you get a pretty fat check at the end of the year. I’ve done the math and it is to your benefit if you regularly get groceries there.
That subscription total at the end there is the reason I support sailors of the high seas.
With the whole food ordering thing - I find that often they just seem to add a flat amount on for most items so the % increase varies.
If they just add +£1 for every item on the menu it means the £5 item is only +20% but £1 item is now doubled...
I've actually had restaurants tell me to just phone them and order directly in future to avoid this BS
Same, i have a bunch of restaurants nearby that don’t normally do pickups or delivery but i just phone them and tell them imma be there in 10 min when the food is ready and go pick it up myself
Also, different countries have different access to different types of driver. Here in NZ we have Green options as well as pet-friendly and car=pooling options. We don't have the Luxury options anymore (they were cut years ago).
Amazon is great for finding very specific things that would be almost impossible in a Walmart or Best Buy. Which are almost always out of stock or have 1 option that isnt exactly what you want.
eBay is even better for that, and usually cheaper too cause lower commission fee for the seller.
Airbnb used to be great in early days and around 2017 you start to have people that would come in and do drugs, quality just goes straight off the cliff from that point.
@@EWGFenjoyer Just look at pristine vacation destinations. Starts out great, then greed take over and they build many shitty hotels, then everything gets ruined in noise and plastic garbage and drunk fights etc etc.
not to mention how every house is being bought to become an airbnb and fucking up the local hotels, house renting, and populace depending on the size of the city
Plus airbnb s ended up being more expensive than similar quality hotels, where you have around the clock support and less chances of running into incoveniences. Multiple times i had to argue on the phone with airbnb owners about broken stuff inside the apartament or stuff missing that were featured in the ad
@@horia_24 Think it would always end up there over time. And yes i feel hotels are cheaper many times, and don´t carry the same risk getting fines for strange BS.
@@horia_24 this too. It used to be cheaper now it is costing just the same if not more
and he didn't even go into the problem that the products of Google & Meta (I don't know about AWS, I don't use them) like their ad platforms, are neck-deep in bugs. I guess because they implemented a heck of tools and then (before 1-2 years) they went into massive cuts of stuff, and now they don't have enough people to run their products properly.
It's not true ive done priority before and it still will take longer. They still will do multiple stops. It's honestly not worth ordering food unless its over the calling order method.
its like buying a normal car and then they change to buy with 2 wheels and for 500 bucks more you get the other 2 as a premium car
Then you have to rent the engine from them on top of that.
Dodge used to kind of do this with the hellcat challengers. It comes up with one seat and you have to buy the rest of the seats as options for 1 dollar per seat
EVs already do this
@@anshukandulna1844 please explain
BMW tried to charge a subscription to use your heated seats, we are already there.
I knew everything sucked before it was cool. Now I just wait for the sweet release of death by snu snu.
Mans got sick bars
Good man, i joined the club little before covid lol oh boy was i happy
Bold of you to anticipate that your death will be by snu snu and not because of, dunno, a stroke.
@@mayconlcruz what about a snu snu stroke??
I drive for Uber. They only take around 15% from the trip. I think the rules are different in the UK
This entire video is just describing the leadup to a market adjustment. This is how economies work. Things are cheap, they get expensive, they get cheap again because people get sick of them being expensive.
19:35 they triple dip in the price with the mark up, the service fee and the delivery fee. Because the order is too small the mark up is barely anything so they add a fee to make up for it
This had me going through all my stuff to get rid of ancillary or no longer needed subscriptions. Thanks for the money saving, Asmon.