spaghettiwestern
@spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Pop-up Amazon TV ads despite charging people monthly fees for their ad-free plan. 1 week ago:
Well folks, the brainwashing’s complete on this one.
- Comment on Pop-up Amazon TV ads despite charging people monthly fees for their ad-free plan. 1 week ago:
So according to you an ad is not an ad when you or Amazon use the word “promotion”?
I’m curious, in your opinion when does something like this become an ad? Is it an ad if they they pop it up mid-show every hour? No? How about every 10 minutes, is it an ad then?
Marketing departments attempt to bend reality and public opinion to benefit their company. Their efforts have obviously been effective with at least one commenter on Lemmy.
- Comment on Pop-up Amazon TV ads despite charging people monthly fees for their ad-free plan. 1 week ago:
Gotta call BS. I didn’t go anywhere and happen across a promotion, Amazon pushed this ad into my home, despite charging me a monthly fee not to do so.
- Comment on Pop-up Amazon TV ads despite charging people monthly fees for their ad-free plan. 1 week ago:
Yup.
- Comment on Pop-up Amazon TV ads despite charging people monthly fees for their ad-free plan. 1 week ago:
Amazon: "Oh, we didn’t mean those ads. That’s clearly stated in line 684 of the user agreement.
- Submitted 1 week ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 63 comments
- Comment on Missouri voters expanded paid sick leave. The Missouri Legislature undid it, and the repeal just took effect 1 month ago:
No matter where it appears to be on a map, Missouri is in the deep south.
- Comment on Anon tries running live USB Linux on his dad's computer 2 months ago:
This happened to me when I booted a friend’s computer from a live USB Mint stick. It took well an hour to find the correct password for her account and get Windows running again.
Not too long ago Microsoft deleted my Linux ext2 directory when I booted to Windows and ran Windows Update.
At this point I’m convinced Microsoft primary business is selling malware.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death 4 months ago:
No post about the Nazi is complete without this.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 4 months ago:
So Chrome is sharing way more than the user agent with Canon? That’s just ridiculous. I hope someone with the time will take a good look about what information is being sent.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 4 months ago:
I’ve been running across sites that demand I use Chrome on PC too, a non-starter since Google “upgraded” Chrome to prevent adblock use. I’ve occasionally used User Agent Switcher for Firefox: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/…/uaswitcher/. Works on both PC and phone.
- Comment on When I tell people I don't know the answer but where they can find it and they don't go and read where I told them to read. 4 months ago:
It was and I should have probably done the same.
- Comment on When I tell people I don't know the answer but where they can find it and they don't go and read where I told them to read. 4 months ago:
Who said anything about a debate?
- Comment on When I tell people I don't know the answer but where they can find it and they don't go and read where I told them to read. 4 months ago:
A few months ago a Lemmy user demanded sources for a comment I made. Since they literally could have found the information with less effort by a Google search I refused to do it for them. Other Lemmy users argued that I should be this lazy dope’s reference librarian, and another idiot actually did the Google search and posted the results.
People are astoundingly lazy and even Lemmy users want to be spoon-fed.
- Comment on When will all the folks complaining about loss of Snap and health insurance realize the GOP wants us to die and has ZERO empathy for fellow Americans? 4 months ago:
The lack of empathy is a conservative hallmark.
Elon Musk , “The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy,”
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
The company used to have it set up so in order to set of an audio alert using “Find My Device”, you had to have that device in your hand and respond to a security prompt.
It is my firm belief that Google employees never use their own products.
- Comment on No more Bosch for me.. 6 months ago:
They must have changed the location demand it because of the complaints they were getting.
Mine has some features that aren’t available without the app, but I only really cared about the end of cycle signal and the refrigerator temperature. Zigbee sensors provide the same function without requiring an Internet connection.
- Comment on No more Bosch for me.. 6 months ago:
LG pulls some of this BS too. When I tried it a few years ago, the LG app required always-on precise location permission to function at all. The smart features on my washer and refrigerator also require them to always be connected to the Internet but those features were more limited that what Jeff describes. I was willing to allow the appliances Internet access from an isolated subnet, but there is no way I’m going to allow LG access to all of my phone’s location data just so I can run their crappy, barely functional app.
In Mexico Bosch is even more customer hostile. My Bosch water heater had to be replaced because Bosch discontinued the repair parts needed to fix it. It’s only 3 years old.
- Comment on Tried to watch The French Connection... 😠 7 months ago:
Even more infuriating, Amazon charges the same price for ad-free premium channels as stand-alone subscriptions. They then insert ads into that 3rd party content if you haven’t paid Amazon’s additional fee to remove ads from Amazon’s content. I’ll never again subscribe to anything through Amazon.
- Comment on Spotify Premium "Ad Free" plan 7 months ago:
It looks like Jellyfin + Mopidy will do the same thing as Spotify Connect which is my most used app/service. Will take a closer look. Thanks for the list.
- Comment on Spotify Premium "Ad Free" plan 8 months ago:
Looked at that and I think it will be an option in the near future, but right now Raspotify and Connect are hard to replace.
- Comment on Spotify Premium "Ad Free" plan 8 months ago:
Would have left Spotify a couple years ago if I could find an app with something Spotify Connect type functionality.
- Comment on Spotify Premium "Ad Free" plan 8 months ago:
Every other day.
- Submitted 8 months ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 69 comments
- Comment on This message will not go away unless I agree to their spyware. 9 months ago:
The Shelter app allows you to sandbox other apps:
www.makeuseof.com/shelter-sandbox-android-apps/
It’s no longer on Google Play (likely because it makes it a bit more difficult to track people) but can be found on Fdroid:
- Comment on How is this Amazon ad anything BUT a trick to get a 7 year old child to get their mitts on dad's phone and charge his credit card $13K in two clicks? 10 months ago:
I don’t think us mere mortals can hope to understand the mysteries of Amazon marketing services.
- Comment on So that's when I deleted my account 10 months ago:
Some problems with that:
- Companies routinely use more than one source address meaning I’m required to play whack-a-mole to maintain my filters.
- Setting up a content filter means wanted emails from other sources can be filtered out.
- The majority of users have absolutely no idea what a filter is.
- Comment on So that's when I deleted my account 10 months ago:
I had 2 of these just this week. Disney+ sent an ESPN ad with no way to unsubscribe, despite my having all marketing emails turned off. Their chat rep absurdly and laughably insisted it was not a marketing email, just a way to help people use their services.
Best Buy sent me a marketing ad with a $5 coupon (lol) attached and again no way to unsubscribe. All marketing emails were disabled with them too.
Both problems were easily solved by deleting my accounts.
- Comment on How is this Amazon ad anything BUT a trick to get a 7 year old child to get their mitts on dad's phone and charge his credit card $13K in two clicks? 10 months ago:
13K pesos, or about 650 dollars.
- Comment on Reddit Undeleted all my posts and comments 1 year ago:
I just checked and Reddit did the same with my account. I spent hours editing and ultimately deleting my posts and comments, and the Spez Gestapo just undeleted years worth of content… I’m going to go through them again and this time I’ll leave the gibberish.
