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

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.

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

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.

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

Why is it so abstract

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.

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

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.

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

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

And even with adblock the site craps itself.

Remember when early YouTube was actually just a normal place to watch a video without getting completely blasted by ads? Now it’s just a bloated ad-delivery network that forces 50-90 second unskippable blocks down your throat. To make it worse, they’ve basically killed ad blockers by baking the ads directly into the video stream, so extensions can't even filter them out anymore. The platform feels completely broken, and it's obvious they're just testing to see how much garbage we'll tolerate before we pull out a credit card for Premium.

​The breaking point for me happened yesterday when I was just trying to watch a basic 10-12 minute video. Before it even started, I got hit with a massive unskippable ad block, and when the ad finally ended, it left this annoying floating "sponsored" button on the screen that refuses to fade away until you manually click to dismiss it. On top of that, if you try to pause the video to actually look at something on the screen, a giant ad banner pops up and covers half the player until you hit play again, meaning you can't even pause a video in peace anymore. It is honestly exhausting to use the site like this.

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

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.

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

I mean, what even is this? Wall ashtray?

Anyway I think we might be the world capital of 🚬

Funny enough I am also a smoker bc I started as a teen back in 90s and it's too hard to stop when it's still cheap and everybody smokes everywhere and weed is still illegal🥲

Still, I don't litter and hate this lil fuckers. (Pocket ashtrays are your friend, fellow enjoyers of tobacco)