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Google's new Sheets logo looks like it's aligned to right and added some gradients
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Instagram refuses to remove such comments after multiple reports and reviews.
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Instagram reports review process might be a tad biased
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Sony XM4 Headphones speak to chat feature is designed badly
The feature keeps on re-enabling after turning it off every couple of days. When I join a meet(google/zoom) and I start speaking this feature triggers and I am unable to hear until I tap back on headphones. And manually disable it again. Very irritating very badly designed.
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How to legally pocket $59M and ship 0 phones: Change the TOS *after* people pay to say a "deposit" doesn't actually reserve a phone.
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Ruth's Chris Steak House places an advertisement in front of their Health Inspection score
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Wand (WeMod)
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Wand (formerly known as WeMod) limits free users to a 2-hour daily limit for using trainers and mods. If you want unlimited access to the cheats, you are now required to pay for their Wand Pro subscription.
Features that were completely free for years are now locked behind a subscription. Users feel like a tool they rely on has been taken hostage. They built its massive user base by promising a free, accessible platform. Forcing a 2-hour daily limit feels like a bait-and-switch tactic to long-time community members.
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Would you prefer pay-per-use instead of subscriptions?
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outlook makes me angy >:(
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Online dermatology service has an "Optional" opt in to AI tools
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server. Is that permanent? Is there any way to restore it?*
*Is the OfficeJet 4650 now considered end-of-life by HP? If so, when was that decision made, and why were customers not notified?*
*If I were to purchase a new HP printer, what guarantee do I have that the same thing won't happen again?*
*I look forward to your detailed response, Milo. The answers to these questions will go a long way in helping me decide how to proceed.*
Those were all very legitimate questions. But Milo did not answer any of them. Instead, Milo closed my case and ghosted me.
I won't lie to you. Milo's ghosting, after weeks of struggle, is what made this situation personal. It stopped being about a printer entirely. And so I decided to actually invest energy to seek justice for the many thousands of poor schmucks that HP tosses around every day.
So I wrote a thorough PIPEDA request (the Canadian equivalent of an FOIA request) and sent it to [Privacy@hp.com](mailto:Privacy@hp.com). I also wrote a thorough notice of demand. I sent all these documents to:
* the board of directors (bod@hp.com)
* the head lawyer [Julie.Jacobs@hp.com](mailto:Julie.Jacobs@hp.com)
* the CEO of HP Canada [Mary.Ann.Yule@hp.com](mailto:Mary.Ann.Yule@hp.com)
* the President of HP Solutions [Manoj.Leelanivas@hp.com](mailto:Manoj.Leelanivas@hp.com)
* the Senior Vice President and Managing Director for North America [George.Brasher@hp.com](mailto:George.Brasher@hp.com)
*( It turns out you can just find out who the director of a department at HP is, add dots after his or her names, and* u/hp*.com, and you can actually reach out personally to every HP executive. How thoughtful of them...)*
I also filed a formal complaint with the Canadian Competition Bureau and the Quebec Consumer Protection Office. A couple hours later, (not days, hours! ) I got a reply from Joshwa Sanjeev, Executive Escalation Manager — Americas. I thought: '*'wow, what a nice title, surely, I will be heard now... '*'
But it was not so.
What followed was a documented pattern of deliberate misdirection. Joshwa offered to go through the same nonsense connection resetting, just like incompetent frontline reps had tried for hours and hours. He then proceeded to gaslight me into believing my printer's failure was caused by the use of non-HP cartridges. **But I have never used a non-HP cartridge.**
Here is what HP knew while this was happening. Through a formal PIPEDA access request — the Canadian equivalent of a freedom of information request — I obtained HP's internal records. Among them: **New II Alert 260407**, an internal HP service alert titled ***Gen 1 Printers Losing Connection to Web Services.*** HP's own documentation confirmed that the failure affecting my device was systemic, affecting the entire Generation 1 product line. I have also obtained the records of the customer services phone calls in which HP representatives confirmed this explicitly.
Joshwa Sanjeev, the highest level service rep at HP, as he himself confirmed in writing, knows very well that my printer doesn't have a hardware issue. My printer is considered End-of-Life by HP. (That's also in the files they had to send me.)
So...
After about a month and a half of fighting with HP, they finally made me an "offer," if you can call it that. A refurbished printer to replace my now dysfunctional unit.
A working printer is what I had before going through all this $hit! At this point, I'd rather just see HP be held accountable for their deceptive practices. So I politely told them "LMAO." And Joshwa told me the issue was then considered closed, since I refused his offer at resolution.
So I wrote a new PIPEDA request! (They really have to answer those. The penalty can go up to 4% of their worldwide revenues, so they are pretty reliable in that domain...) I am now demanding all files related in any way, shape or form to my executive escalation case, and everything related to **New II Alert 260407**. I also filed a formal ethics complaint against Joshwa with HP's ethics commissioner, reported his lying to the board of directors,
Citizen app scaring you into changing your privacy settings
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YouTube genuinely made ads so fucking intrusive that once you get an ad you can't wipe this shit off your screen. Like you genuinely can't do anything.
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Adobe Stock started billing me one week before my free-trial end and will charge me 5x monthly fee if I cancel
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Local restaurant has 2 separate fees for customers in the waiting area. Then asks for tip on orders from QR code.
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Classic reload adverts
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A taxpayer-funded Catch-22: The government portal tells you to call a hotline to report tax fraud. The hotline operators are trained to say "we don't accept calls" and hang up. When my site exposed it, they panicked and deleted the webpage (404) instead of fixing it.
Why this is peak Asshole Design:
This isn't a glitch; it’s a deliberate bureaucratic dark pattern designed to make citizens give up on reporting multi-million dollar tax evasion.
1. The Intentional Loop: The official state portal (gov.gr) explicitly instructed citizens to use hotline 1517 for telephone reports. However, the call center backend had strict operational orders to refuse every single call, telling users to "go to the website" and dropping the request. They built a fully staffed call center just to act as a human firewall against citizen reports.
2. The Cover-Up (The 404): I got so frustrated that I built a civic tech platform (fix1517.gr) to expose this taxpayer-funded loop, featuring a live "Silence Counter" tracking how many months the Ministry has ignored my official inquiries.
3. The Solution? Delete it: Within 24 hours of the project gaining massive traction, the Ministry of Finance panicked. Instead of fixing the operational script of the hotline to actually help people, they chose to hide the evidence. They stealthily deleted the instruction page. Now, the official government link just returns a 404 Page Not Found.
They literally spent public money to build a fake storefront for fighting fraud, and when a single vibe coder exposed the scam, they just tore down the sign and pretended it never existed.
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Creative Fabrica AI charged me during a free trial period and Paypal rejected my dispute
I think I just got trapped by one of the most deceptive free trial subscription setups I have ever seen and I want to warn other people about it. I signed up for what was heavily presented as a 30 day free trial on Creative Fabrica because I needed some design assets for a project. Like most free trials online it asked me to connect PayPal and my card details so I assumed it was just for verification or future billing after the trial period ended. Instead I was immediately charged 59 88 USD for an annual subscription.
There was no moment where I knowingly intended to buy a full yearly plan on the spot. The whole sign-up flow was centered around the idea of a free trial which made the immediate annual charge extremely misleading in my opinion. As soon as I noticed the charge I contacted Creative Fabrica support asking for a refund and clarification. The response was entirely automated and basically boiled down to saying I was not eligible for a refund based on their system. It felt impossible to speak to an actual person who would properly address the issue.
I then filed a PayPal dispute (May 6) explaining that this was a misleading subscription billing issue tied to a supposed free trial. I submitted screenshots of the offer proof of the charge and all my communication attempts with the company.
PayPal (just today) denied the dispute saying the transaction was processed correctly.
That response honestly shocked me because the issue was never that the payment failed or that my account was hacked. The issue was the deceptive way the free trial appeared to transition into an expensive annual subscription charge. Now I am trying to dispute the transaction through my bank because this entire experience feels intentionally designed to confuse people into paying for a yearly subscription they did not clearly intend to purchase.
I know some people will say to always read every line carefully and I agree people should be cautious but I also think companies should not be allowed to market something as a free trial in a way that causes people to unknowingly authorize an immediate annual charge.
It's honestly so gut wrenching as I needed the money for school. I don't even know how I begin telling my mom, and I just want to ball up and cry. I don't understand how I got rejected when there's clear evidence of it. I don't know what to do now... Has anyone else here experienced something similar with Creative Fabrica or other subscription services that use misleading free trial billing tactics?
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Whatever this reddit filter is doing
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Financial times changing subscription popup on archive.org, pretending article isn't behind a paywall.
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Can't read ingredients due to poor contrast
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Rarely any button works on this educational website with millions of visitors - AI generated crap
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Unsubscribe link from boots email is just an underlined text
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New subscription? Asked if wanting to turn-off reminder emails.
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and wrote down my story.
This Monday morning, Joshwa will learn that my case is, in fact, ***not*** closed.
**TL;DR: HP's firmware update remotely bricked my working OfficeJet 4650 mid-print. Weeks of customer service runaround, closed cases, and executive ghosting followed — until I hit back with PIPEDA (Canadian privacy FOIA) requests, complaints to two Canadian regulatory bodies, and formal notices to HP's board and top executives. Their own internal documents confirm this was a known, systemic failure affecting the entire Generation 1 product line. When their Executive Escalation Manager tried to gaslight me anyway, I filed an ethics complaint against him, reported him to the board, and made clear his "case closed" wasn't my case closed. To be continued...**
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HP INSTANT INK Class Action Lawsuit in the Making?
**HP's firmware update permanently shut down my Officejet 4650 printer. Has anyone else experienced this?**
A few weeks ago, I had an HP printer, and it was working fine. I had just finished writing my book, and I began printing it. But halfway-through, the printing mysteriously stopped.
That was odd...
I thought that maybe the internet went out. But no... The internet was working just fine. And then I saw a message on my printer's screen. It said something about an update, and that it might take a few minutes. So I waited a few minutes. But every time I tried to print my book, the same error message kept popping up. ''Cannot Connect to Server'' or something. So I waited some more. And more. And more.
After a few hours of waiting a few minutes, I realized I needed to have a chat with HP customer service. Little did I know what I was getting into... So I had a chat with a nice, blissfully unaware customer care lady that lived in a far away land. She asked me many questions, and made me do all sorts of things to my printer. It lasted well over an hour. In the end she told me I should unplug my router. That would help, she said. But it did not help. Instead, what happened was exactly what I feared, (and told her) would happen: I got disconnected from my chat.
And so, I had to start all over again... And so I tried calling HP again. And again. And again. I spent many hours explaining my situation over and over again to many poor souls across the globe who barely spoke English and didn't have a clue what the company they work for was actually doing. At some point I was told by a manager that the Escalation Department would call me back.
Finally! After all this trouble, I would get closure.
But the Escalation Department never called me back... Instead, I kept receiving mysterious emails saying my cases were being closed.
That was odd. Why were my cases being closed? My printer was not fixed...
Anyhow... By that time I pretty much knew that the problems I was experiencing originated from HP's servers, not my printer.
Then someday, after calling HP for the hundredth time, I managed to get transferred to a technical supervisor. The supervisor spoke pretty good English, which was refreshing, and confirmed that I was not insane. What I was experiencing was indeed related to HP servers, and not my printer itself. He also told me that this was a major priority for HP, and that it would be fixed very soon. All I could do was wait. And so I waited, and tried printing, and waited, and waited, and tried printing.
You get the idea.
After over a week of this annoying pattern, my printer would still not print. So I called HP once more...
I was *not happy at all* by that time, as you might have guessed, having to explain my situation again to low-level customer service people who had no idea about anything I had been through. It was hard to keep my cool, and I might have used some bad words here and there...
But I persevered, and I managed to speak to another HP technical supervisor named Milo. Milo told me he would look into the matter and contact me. Then, a few days later, he got back to me and explained the issue. Milo used a lot of fancy words to tell me that my issue had to do with the **HP Dynamic Security update and the HP plus initiative,** and that I needed to get a new printer.
That did not compute in my brain, and it seemed plainly illegal. I had a printer, HP deactivated it, and now I need to buy a new printer? What?!
So I began to look into all the tools at my disposal. Surely, even a multinational corporation like HP cannot do anything it wants without consequences. Life has thought me that only progressive governments can do whatever they want without any consequences. ( I live in French Canada, believe me, *I know...*)
So I figured I would notify the relevant government agencies about my problems.
But first, I needed more information. So I asked Milo a few questions:
*You mentioned my printer lost synchronization with HP's cloud
Wiser App Subscription Cancellation Scam — How to ACTUALLY Cancel Your Subscription
Be careful when cancelling a Wiser App (wiserapp.co) subscription on iPhone.
The cancellation process is extremely misleading, especially for users who signed up using Google.
The process starts inside the Wiser app itself. You press the “Cancel Subscription” button, and the app redirects you to start.wiserapp.co. This is where the confusing flow begins.
Since the site doesn’t properly support Google login, it asks for a password you probably never created.
To access your account:
Press “Forgot Password”
Enter the email used for your Google signup
Create a password through the email link
Log into the web portal
Then:
Open subscription settings
Click cancel subscription
Here’s the deceptive part:
After clicking cancel the first time, the interface strongly makes it seem like the subscription has already been cancelled and that the next pages are just an optional feedback survey.
That is NOT true.
Your subscription remains active unless you continue through the survey screens and keep pressing the additional hidden cancellation buttons until you reach the final real confirmation screen.
Only trust it once your account status under “My Account” says “Canceled”.
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I’m posting this because I almost left thinking it was cancelled when it actually wasn’t.
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I hate that this ad gets me everytime.
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Amazon Prime $2.5B class action settlements for using dark patterns to trick people into prime subscriptions
Amazon got hit with a $2.5 billion settlement for using dark patterns to trick people into prime sub. If you signed up between 2019-25, you may qualify for up to $51. No proof needed. I'm not sure if I can post the link here, but if you look up $2.5B Amazon prime membership FTC settlement, you should find a form (should take 2min to fill out)
There's this free ios and android app called FreeClaim that I built to track active class action settlement. 81 right now, 18 don't require proof. (Disclosure - I'm the dev, the app is 100% free)
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I have to purchase premium to remove the sidebar.
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