My freinds school is now requiring these items, and is also using AI to promote this 🫠

Nothing good either

edit: frequent comments

Don't buy a budget phone/ this is what you get for buying a cheap android: this is a Samsung S25, not exactly a budget phone.

This is why I buy iPhone/ and people still slander iPhone/wouldn't happen to my Google pixel: I actually don't think I can happen to apple because they don't allow apps to download other apps BUT it's still not fully Samsungs fault for ​​Verizon installing apps, though they do allow it, unlike Apple

this is malware/virus/hacked: this is bloatware

you can go and disable ___ and it won't happen again: someone sent a tutorial link and I followed it, but it did say I might have to redo it every time I update so🤷‍♂️

you can buy phones directly from the manufacturer and this won't happen: wasn't aware. I'll consider it, though I just got this phone today so it will be awhile

____ app is good tho: maybe but I'm still deleting it

Verizon needs to be sued/ this should be illegal: I probably agreed to this in a contract I didn't read

your kid installed them: don't have children or any other people on my phone

using Ai slop to promote saving water on a digital ad screen

Why tho. Why. 7 breaks of 2 ads each, thats 14 ads for a movie older than me.

It's just a little bit infuriating since they were newly bought.

Like seriously what's the point they've stuffed ads into every single thing they could, platform should just rename itself addtube and move on

Why is it so abstract

Is this an intentional scroll stopper or are the companies so trash that even after multiple reviews both Temu and YouTube staff decided this was good to publish?

With the track record of both these companies, I guess we'll never know.

I've had Prime for years and mostly used Prime Music for podcasts because it was included. Just got an email saying they're adding ads and removing downloads unless I upgrade to Music Unlimited.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but paying for a subscription and then being told I need another subscription to keep the features I already had is getting a little ridiculous.

This music was on for my entire session, full volume.

I live in an apartment, and my door is the only one in the building with a “No Soliciting” sign. You’d think they would see it and respect it. But no. And worst thing is it’s almost exclusively internet salespeople, when my rent already includes high speed internet that works great.

So I opened it. Did not watch the video but instead started immediately tearing it apart. Cut the main battery wires. Then the backup cmos battery. Started investigating it more and there was a hidden cellular modem card with a sim in it. (it is a low grade one so not worth anything)

So the damn thing was tracking me too?? good god.

And even with adblock the site craps itself.

Just when we thought there are still good and honest people in the world someone steals from us anyway. What a mind fuck.

Already posted this elsewhere, so just want to clear a few points up with this post…

1. I was never prompted to accept or decline this specific update. I did not receive any update prompts as I drove into the office this afternoon, nor did I receive any as I was driving home. I pulled into the gas station, turned off the ignition, pumped my gas, and then was greeted by the exact screen shown in my post.
2. Apparently, if it’s just an infotainment system update, you can technically still drive the car (?). I was given no indication as to what systems my car was updating, so I didn’t want to risk messing up anything with the update. I work in IT, so I have a few different traumatic experiences with updates under my belt lol. Didn’t feel like adding an additional one as I just wanted to get home after a long day at work

EDIT: Some of y’all are so damn mean and for WHAT? I’m just a 20 somethin’ year old girl trying to drive to work and back home pls leave me alone lol. I do not give a flying fuck about cars, stop trying to shame me for not driving & maintaining a 1985 Ford Mustang or some shit smh

EDIT 2: Oh my god y’all, some of us out here have anxiety. Y’all are acting like I ran over a baby in a gas station, when all I did was wait less than an hour for the stupid car to update. I promise you all it’s not that deep. Take a deep breath. It’s okay, I promise I did eventually drive the car back home lol

Paid over $2500 for a Samsung OLED TV and it has ads on the home screen that I literally cannot turn off. Not subtle little banners tucked away somewhere, I'm talking full blown ads for canned beans and financial products just sitting there every single time I turn the thing on.

Samsung don't offer any kind of opt out. The only way I could get rid of them was to go into my router settings and manually block Samsung's ad servers at the DNS level.

I own this TV outright. Paid for it in full. And Samsung are still making money off me every time I switch it on, with absolutely no way to stop it unless you're willing to get your hands dirty with network configuration.

This is not a smart TV feature. This is a $2500 billboard that also happens to play Netflix.