#anticonsumer — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #anticonsumer, aggregated by home.social.
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fucking #microsoft, send down a #windowsupdate to my 79 yo Mum's computer - that after it installs shows a full screen unskippable wizard that scares the shit out of her.
all so they can ask her to set edge back to the default browser and try and hock a 365 subscription at her. Wasting both our time for nothing she would ever want or need.
fucking dark pattern ui, where the accept the subscription is the button and the decline is a hyperlink above it
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fucking #microsoft, send down a #windowsupdate to my 79 yo Mum's computer - that after it installs shows a full screen unskippable wizard that scares the shit out of her.
all so they can ask her to set edge back to the default browser and try and hock a 365 subscription at her. Wasting both our time for nothing she would ever want or need.
fucking dark pattern ui, where the accept the subscription is the button and the decline is a hyperlink above it
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Private DIY Servers Are "Illegal Black Markets of Piracy" | #ESA Shady #antiConsumer Ties
#US #California #Government #CorpLobbyist #FalseClaims #CorporateGreed #Gamers #ConsumerRights #GamersNexus
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Private DIY Servers Are "Illegal Black Markets of Piracy" | #ESA Shady #antiConsumer Ties
#US #California #Government #CorpLobbyist #FalseClaims #CorporateGreed #Gamers #ConsumerRights #GamersNexus
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I am so livid with the news from Sony. We pay nearly 100 dollars for games we earn the right to keep them. By making things fully digital you kill that right entirely. Companies can turn off servers whenever they like. Once a company goes out of business and their servers off games will disappear. I cannot stand this.
I am doubling down on my physical copy hunt down.
There has to be an alternative to this soon.
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I am so livid with the news from Sony. We pay nearly 100 dollars for games we earn the right to keep them. By making things fully digital you kill that right entirely. Companies can turn off servers whenever they like. Once a company goes out of business and their servers off games will disappear. I cannot stand this.
I am doubling down on my physical copy hunt down.
There has to be an alternative to this soon.
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COLLAPSE of Personal Computing | Investigation Into the Destruction of Ownership - Gamers Nexus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyQwAhppWj8
#PC #PCownership #consumer #pricing #AI #postconsumer #personalai #GamersNexus #cartel #tech #economy #CostOfLiving #AntiConsumer #ConsumerProtection
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COLLAPSE of Personal Computing | Investigation Into the Destruction of Ownership - Gamers Nexus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyQwAhppWj8
#PC #PCownership #consumer #pricing #AI #postconsumer #personalai #GamersNexus #cartel #tech #economy #CostOfLiving #AntiConsumer #ConsumerProtection
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BMW really sucks now: If a monthly fee for heated seats and fake M-series cars weren’t bad enough, BMW is considering reducing your engine power if you don’t charge your PHEV enough. We truly own nothing. #cars #bmw #anticonsumer #crapitalism https://www.autoblog.com/news/bmw-wants-plug-in-hybrid-owners-punished-for-not-charging-enough
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BMW really sucks now: If a monthly fee for heated seats and fake M-series cars weren’t bad enough, BMW is considering reducing your engine power if you don’t charge your PHEV enough. We truly own nothing. #cars #bmw #anticonsumer #crapitalism https://www.autoblog.com/news/bmw-wants-plug-in-hybrid-owners-punished-for-not-charging-enough
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I really hate it when companies make you pull out excel in order to know which "package" to buy.
And I hate it even more when you then find out that they ricked it so that you need to buy all of them to get the full set...
(to be fair at ifixit you can also buy the screwdrivers individually, but this just made a good example for what most companies are doing these days)
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I really hate it when companies make you pull out excel in order to know which "package" to buy.
And I hate it even more when you then find out that they ricked it so that you need to buy all of them to get the full set...
(to be fair at ifixit you can also buy the screwdrivers individually, but this just made a good example for what most companies are doing these days)
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You, the consumer, purchased your Android device believing in Google’s promise that it was an open computing platform and that you could run whatever software you choose on it. Instead, as of September 2026, they will be non-consensually pushing an update to your operating system that irrevocably blocks this right and leaves you at the mercy of their judgement over what software you are permitted to trust. #anticonsumer #stupidity #EatTheRich
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In case you haven't noticed, Big Tech has run out of ideas. It can't innovate. It can't release a fresh product. It peaked a long time ago.
People are experiencing tech weariness because everything is the same, as well as tech wariness because of the evil anti-consumer policies.
AI is not going to save Big Tech. It's nothing more than a soap bubble. 🧼 🫧
#BigTech #AI #AIAct #BanAI #OnlinePrivacy #TechWeary #TechWary #Thursday #AntiConsumer
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In case you haven't noticed, Big Tech has run out of ideas. It can't innovate. It can't release a fresh product. It peaked a long time ago.
People are experiencing tech weariness because everything is the same, as well as tech wariness because of the evil anti-consumer policies.
AI is not going to save Big Tech. It's nothing more than a soap bubble. 🧼 🫧
#BigTech #AI #AIAct #BanAI #OnlinePrivacy #TechWeary #TechWary #Thursday #AntiConsumer
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Follow Louis Rossmann's channel for #Anti #Capitalism #AntiConsumer #Anti #DRM #Repair etc!
before they try ban him! ⬇️
https://inv.nadeko.net/channel/UCl2mFZoRqjw_ELax4Yisf6w
+BONUS INFO #Plausible = #Analytics (#Ethical) on Fediverse!
➡️ @plausible https://fosstodon.org/@plausible
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Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move yet
https://www.makeuseof.com/androids-sideloading-limits-are-anti-consumer-move-yet/
#HackerNews #Android #Sideloading #ConsumerRights #TechNews #AndroidUpdates #AntiConsumer
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Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move yet
https://www.makeuseof.com/androids-sideloading-limits-are-anti-consumer-move-yet/
#HackerNews #Android #Sideloading #ConsumerRights #TechNews #AndroidUpdates #AntiConsumer
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WTF? I don't play any game using #Vanguard anti-cheat, but, this brought to my attention it runs at boot without even running the game now?! WTF?
They don't need to b running kernel level anything let alone at boot without even running their games!
Fuck those companies. I'm not for black-hat hacks, but that should be a green-light for whatever hacks ppl wanna do against them. #antiprivacy #anticonsumer #games
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WTF? I don't play any game using #Vanguard anti-cheat, but, this brought to my attention it runs at boot without even running the game now?! WTF?
They don't need to b running kernel level anything let alone at boot without even running their games!
Fuck those companies. I'm not for black-hat hacks, but that should be a green-light for whatever hacks ppl wanna do against them. #antiprivacy #anticonsumer #games
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MOTHERFUCKERS I JUST WANT SOME DAMN ICE CREAM.
#carrs #anticonsumer #bullshit -
MOTHERFUCKERS I JUST WANT SOME DAMN ICE CREAM.
#carrs #anticonsumer #bullshit -
Killed a good thing that everyone but the bad parties are behind
Appeals court voids FTC's 'click to cancel' rule just before it starts
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5390731-appeals-court-voids-ftcs-click-to-cancel-rule-just-before-it-starts/#clicktocancel #clicktocancelrule #ftc #consumerrights #anticonsumer
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Killed a good thing that everyone but the bad parties are behind
Appeals court voids FTC's 'click to cancel' rule just before it starts
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5390731-appeals-court-voids-ftcs-click-to-cancel-rule-just-before-it-starts/#clicktocancel #clicktocancelrule #ftc #consumerrights #anticonsumer
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It feels like a key point of the current phase of capitalism is to pass on as much cognitive load on the consumer as possible. Caveat emptor... 🖕
https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/i-hate-wasting-time-on-identifying-ai-slop/
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It feels like a key point of the current phase of capitalism is to pass on as much cognitive load on the consumer as possible. Caveat emptor... 🖕
https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/i-hate-wasting-time-on-identifying-ai-slop/
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"You should just use #Ubuntu because it's the easiest one" - this is propaganda for #Shuttleworth and tells me you haven't tried any other distro - or that you use #Arch.
#LinuxMint is fantastic still, #Fedora is my go to recommendation, but with #uBlue and #Bazzite we see a new era of usability focused #distributions.
Add to that the fact that #snaps are a centralizes repository with no third party vendors, and you've got a #vendorlockin.
Ubuntu is the #anticonsumer distribution as a result.
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"You should just use #Ubuntu because it's the easiest one" - this is propaganda for #Shuttleworth and tells me you haven't tried any other distro - or that you use #Arch.
#LinuxMint is fantastic still, #Fedora is my go to recommendation, but with #uBlue and #Bazzite we see a new era of usability focused #distributions.
Add to that the fact that #snaps are a centralizes repository with no third party vendors, and you've got a #vendorlockin.
Ubuntu is the #anticonsumer distribution as a result.
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It’s funny to me that #bigtech companies are competing to show off how smart their various #AI models are, but that fancy tech never somehow trickles down to #customerservice where long wait times, byzantine phone trees, incomplete knowledge base search mazes, and other time wasters are the norm.
RN on hold waiting to chat w/ @Microsoft support for 27 minutes while it helps 43 ppl. Really? #CoPilot can’t take a crack at helping me?
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It’s funny to me that #bigtech companies are competing to show off how smart their various #AI models are, but that fancy tech never somehow trickles down to #customerservice where long wait times, byzantine phone trees, incomplete knowledge base search mazes, and other time wasters are the norm.
RN on hold waiting to chat w/ @Microsoft support for 27 minutes while it helps 43 ppl. Really? #CoPilot can’t take a crack at helping me?
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When niceguy Jeff is disappointed in you, you know you f'd up. #enshittification #anticonsumer #3dprinting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91kfolYkRNM -
When niceguy Jeff is disappointed in you, you know you f'd up. #enshittification #anticonsumer #3dprinting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91kfolYkRNM -
Time to become anti-consumerist
https://blog.taursnd.haus/display/1a041b09-9367-337f-d5da-e20326132312
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Regulators are panicking about what CHINA companies are doing with data gathering, but have zero interest in regulating the aggressive anti-consumer practices being inflicted by US corporations.
Case in point: stores with digital price tags doing dynamic pricing based on customer data
#data #dataprivacy #privacy #anticonsumer #anticonsumerism #pricegouging #kroger #walmart #databrokers #greedflation
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Regulators are panicking about what CHINA companies are doing with data gathering, but have zero interest in regulating the aggressive anti-consumer practices being inflicted by US corporations.
Case in point: stores with digital price tags doing dynamic pricing based on customer data
#data #dataprivacy #privacy #anticonsumer #anticonsumerism #pricegouging #kroger #walmart #databrokers #greedflation
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This 😢:
“They Don’t Make ’Em Like That Any More: The 3.5mm Headphone Jack Socket”, Kevin Boone (https://kevinboone.me/headphonejack.html).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41425383
#Phones #Headphones #Audio #HeadphoneJack #AntiConsumer #Greed #Apple #Google #Samsung
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This 😢:
“They Don’t Make ’Em Like That Any More: The 3.5mm Headphone Jack Socket”, Kevin Boone (https://kevinboone.me/headphonejack.html).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41425383
#Phones #Headphones #Audio #HeadphoneJack #AntiConsumer #Greed #Apple #Google #Samsung
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OK What the fuck?
#PayPal has this bullshit when you update your phone number.Do I check the boxes or not? I definitely do not want any contact from those twits.
#baddesign #shittydesign #design #ux #webdesign #anticonsumer
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The problem with Jason point of view is that is very #anticonsumer.
If the game "I expect" to be online only, dies a month later, then I would expect my money gone? A refund?
I think this is a case of tunnel vision.
At least I think he is right in one point: this petition has to be more specific, otherwise it may have colateral damage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioqSvLqB46Y
#StopKillingGames #JasonHall #JasonThorHall #Videogames #Gaming
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The problem with Jason point of view is that is very #anticonsumer.
If the game "I expect" to be online only, dies a month later, then I would expect my money gone? A refund?
I think this is a case of tunnel vision.
At least I think he is right in one point: this petition has to be more specific, otherwise it may have colateral damage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioqSvLqB46Y
#StopKillingGames #JasonHall #JasonThorHall #Videogames #Gaming
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Personally, I'm totally done with #Windows, and #Microsoft in general. I maintain an account, but do very little with it. Why? Because M$ has gone completely off the rails again and I don’t need any of their apps, services, or grief. The #EU clearly feels the same way, and their continued #antitrust actions show that. #tech #office365 #anticonsumer #bullshit https://slashdot.org/story/24/06/25/149209/eu-charges-microsoft-with-abusive-bundling-of-teams-and-office-breaching-antitrust-rules
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Samsung Scummy Repair Contract Forces Shops to Destroy YOUR Phone! iFixit Drops Samsung Partnership!
https://somegadgetguy.com/b/45n
Samsung forces repair shops to sign a TERRIBLE contract, that requires technicians to destroy your phone if they find non-Samsung parts in your device! iFixit is dropping their partnership with Samsung.
Why isn’t this bigger news?
#tech #technews #righttorepair #repair #samsung #anticonsumer #gadgets #bbtg #geek #ifixit #shorts #reels #video #news
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Samsung Scummy Repair Contract Forces Shops to Destroy YOUR Phone! iFixit Drops Samsung Partnership!
https://somegadgetguy.com/b/45n
Samsung forces repair shops to sign a TERRIBLE contract, that requires technicians to destroy your phone if they find non-Samsung parts in your device! iFixit is dropping their partnership with Samsung.
Why isn’t this bigger news?
#tech #technews #righttorepair #repair #samsung #anticonsumer #gadgets #bbtg #geek #ifixit #shorts #reels #video #news
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In true Orwellian fashion, Microsoft are calling it the “User Choice Protection Driver.” You can’t make this shit up.
#enshittification #microsoft #anticonsumer #monopoly https://noc.social/@AAKL/112230530692193371
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In true Orwellian fashion, Microsoft are calling it the “User Choice Protection Driver.” You can’t make this shit up.
#enshittification #microsoft #anticonsumer #monopoly https://noc.social/@AAKL/112230530692193371
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Hey neat. Just got a $90 check from the class action settlement against Apple throttling iPhones with software updates.
A phone I bought almost ten years ago.
The system works... Slowly...#apple #lawsuit #classaction #antitrust #anticonsumer #iphone #geek #tech #technology
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Hey neat. Just got a $90 check from the class action settlement against Apple throttling iPhones with software updates.
A phone I bought almost ten years ago.
The system works... Slowly...#apple #lawsuit #classaction #antitrust #anticonsumer #iphone #geek #tech #technology
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After 22 emails, ChatGPT successfully persuaded Rentalcars.com to issue a refund for a prepaid reservation for a non-existent car. 😅
I’m pretty sure they were using ChatGPT too.
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As a #company, if you release a new #version of your #product, and it immediately causes the #price of #used examples of the previous product to jump to 50% more than the #new one, then you know you have #failed the #consumer, utterly.
Yes, #Dymo, I'm looking at you.
#drm #enshittification #e14n #AntiConsumer #hostile #labelwriter #consumables
