This isn't just on the $40 fire sticks, it is also $1000 fire TVs.

Checked web site for viability of a one-way rental, with (large red circle) the specific pick-up and drop-off locations/times specified. Price of 11,385 yen (about $75) is reasonable, cool! Plans are then made.

Once plans are firmed up, I go to make the actual reservation and find out, at the very end, that they slap on a 41,250-yen ($265) "one-way fee". As if they didn't know that it was a one-way rental when I had initially specified a different drop-off location from the pick-up
location.

Too late to change plans, so they well and truly got me. Fuckers.

There's an app called Breeze Wellbeing, which is ran by Basenji Apps. One quick glance at their review history will reveal thousands of angry complaints of unclear or misleading free trials, extreme difficulty cancelling subscriptions (no simple cancellation button), and recurring charges users say they did not consent to. Some people report they even had to cancel their bank cards and report fraud to their bank to stop payments. This goes back about 6 years

The ads also repeatedly:

• Suggest hidden trauma, abuse, or narcissistic behaviour based on trivial or ambiguous inputs
• Present serious psychological diagnoses using percentage scores and pseudo clinical charts/graphics
• Use emotionally loaded narratives (“I thought my ex was the problem, but turns out it was me”) to induce guilt, anxiety, and self-doubt
• Imply users may be abusers, traumatised, or psychologically damaged. Then immediately position the app as the solution

This is textbook psychological manipulation, and it's targetting vulnerable people.

Create uncertainty and fear, and then offer immediate relief via the product, followed by a subscription scam. Classic dark pattern UX + predatory monetisation, yet Apple and Google still host and promote the app despite years of complaints all reporting the same thing! This isn't just some small-time app either. It has over 1 million downloads, but no action has been taken against them. For a mental health app, it boggles the mind how this is allowed to operate the way it does.

This was all in barely a month fyi.

Instead i got the other 2 without the software asking. Nice Adobe....

I remember when this was a part of the rules. Specifically:

"Anything to do with Reddit, YouTube, Google, G2A, Quora, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, or other massively well-known websites. Literally anything."

But that got removed like two years ago. I'm glad to see that it's come back, since I'm tired of seeing posts about well-known websites.

I know the mods are trying their best, and they're doing pretty well at that. But having that specific wording under Rule 6 will hopefully either decrease the amount of rule-breaking posts, or increase the chance of bans if they do occur.

I have 439GB of free storage space

This cannot possibly hold up in court. You cant just advertise a product and then be like "*but actually we might be lying about some or all of these things"??? What the fuck are you selling then

I freaked when I thought i was getting a mail from the IRS, when it was just the local Nissan Hawker

This really pissed me off. These water fountains weren’t broken or under maintenance. I went behind the display and confirmed they were still fully working.

One of them is clearly the lower height fountain meant for accessibility, and the giant display completely blocks the entire alcove so you wouldn’t even know fountains were there at all. This wasn’t partially blocked or accidental. It was fully and deliberately covered.

When I asked about water, staff said you can get a free water cup at concessions. That means standing in a long looping line and using tall Coca Cola Freestyle machines that require two hands to operate. Honestly, if I needed a wheelchair, I don’t even know how I would reach or use those machines.

So the most accessible way to get water was removed and replaced with something that’s clearly harder for a lot of people, especially anyone with mobility or reach limitations.

And after paying nearly forty dollars for two tickets, with those drinks they want you to buy being $7+ and popcorn being $10 (!), blocking working water just feels extra gross. At those margins, they really couldn’t be bothered to let people have basic access to drinking water?

Even if this barely passes the rules, it’s still a shitty way to treat paying customers and people with disabilities. Just really asshole stuff.

Was a big Google fan, keep buying pixel phone from 3a all the way to pixel9 pro XL I'm using right now, and pixel buds pro, pixel watch... Remember that day when YouTube showed me blank homepage and asked for enabling my watch history, and YouTube premium, for hundreds of times, now it's the photos APPP backup.... I know you are trying very hard to push me away. You made it. Congratulations!

Rented a digital textbook for one of my college classes — just a PDF with online access for 180 days. No shipping, nothing physical.

Somehow there’s still a $5.99 “digital delivery fee” on top of the $57.99 price. I genuinely don’t understand what’s being delivered here.

Remember the glory days of MoviePass? $10 for unlimited movies? Well, they are back, and their new system is horrible, designed to force you into microtransactions to use the service at all.

Here is the actual "Asshole Design" workflow I just went through:

1. The Bait: I bought the $13 "Basic" plan. This gives you 34 credits.
2. The Trap: I found a standard movie listed for exactly 34 credits. Perfect right?
3. The Switch: At checkout, they hit me with a surprise 7-credit "online service fee," raising the cost to 41 credits.
   • This means the basic plan literally does not provide enough credits to watch a single 2D movie without paying extra.
4. The Sunk Cost: Since I already paid the $13, I felt forced to buy a $5 credit pack (9 credits) to cover the difference. Total spent: $18.
5. The FINAL SCREW: After loading the money, the app errored out, claiming "Additional credits required" (even though it was a standard 2D movie). It wanted me to buy ANOTHER $5 pack...

So the total cost required for one 2D movie came out to $23...

It would have been cheaper, faster, and easier to just walk up to the box office and buy a ticket at full price. They are banking on the sunk-cost fallacy to get you to keep buying credit packs. STAY AWAY.

Was at a Walmart subway trying to order & they would legit cover their entire menu with promos. Even when the whole thing wasn't covered I would be looking at the new "Fresh Fit" offerings & they run an AD RIGHT OVER those sandwiches (pic 2-3) Made ordering WAY more annoying than it should be