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“Win Ping Pong to unsubscribe” is so utterly deranged it’s hilarious 😂😂😂
Next time we'll get:
Solve this iq test if you don't get higher than 140 then you can't unsubscribe 🤷♀️
this must be a breach of GDPR!
also it's illegal in most civilized countries
It's not an AI but a full time ping ponger paid minimum wage
It is satire of course.
“Stop constantly putting ads in our faces…” gets a TH-cam ad at this exact moment
Me enjoying life with zero subscription AND zero ads, and sponsorblock
Imagine buying a console for less than the company paid to make it, then complaining when the company has ads to make back the money lost
This is why I use privacy virtual debit cards. Once a service does something as petty as what is displayed on this video, sorry not sorry to the black list you go. No need to unsubscribe, you will simply not get my money.
I did hate that about my fancy Samsung TV then feeling so cheap when ads popped up. I ended up setting it to boot straight to input, and my input is a PC I keep attached. Foundation and See are pretty good on Apple TV.
Right after you said “stop pumping ads in our faces” there was an ad 😂
Apps with obnoxious ads with crosses that wont work... such as Duolingo?
That “paper bottle” has more packaging than a regular label on that same bottle.
No sane person would believe paper would hold water
@@whitehuayra you would hope! That’s one expensive attempt to try and con people!
@@whitehuayra
Most people would probably assume they're wax lined on the inside, you know, like a milk carton.
@@ZombieBarioth wax, or at least a thin plastic lining that uses substantially less plastic than a standard bottle, like a plastic bag having it's shape supported by the paper. Wouldn't be ideal if it was a plastic lining but at least it would be an improvement over the a hole design.
@@whitehuayra Waxed paper actually can hold liquids, but the permanence isn't great. So, the way these bottles SHOULD work is a thin plastic sealing liner rather than the big plastic bottle inside the paper casing.
Evan: “Stop pumping ads in our face everywhere”. TH-cam (next second): “Like a good neighbor…”
I noticed that exact same thing! 😆
What ads? I don't see any.
_Laughs in ReVanced_
The sites are still not profitable, so if you have an issue with ads, I'll tell ya TH-cam Premium works a treat, and a great deal of YTers have said the revenue from YTP is way better than Ad revenue.
"stay over there" -ReVanced
"Natural" was already meaningless enough, and they went the extra mile.
That's what you get for leaving the European Union it seems...
@@leza4453 - And electing the Tories over and over again for stupid reasons, don't forget that.
For reals, a big part of the way Brexit was promoted was to take the idea of "regulation" and make people relate it to every minor nuisance in their lives, rather than things like "is it okay to dump random chemicals into the sea?" or "can we class white phosphorous as a vitamin?"
@@leza4453"Natural" is also meaningless in the EU and always was. Read the regulations on the usage of that term under EU law.
As a Brit I hate to say I thought gerrymandering was a person I felt like a right pillock asking my American sister in laws dad who Gerry Mandering is 🤦🏼♀️🤣
Well, you're not too far off. It's named after a Governor Gerry. His district was shaped like a salamander, thus Gerry + mander.
me thinking the term “geriatric” was a person named Jerry Atrick
I thought he was half German, half Chinese!
@@HermanVonPetri what's that? Oh him...
No, it was a replacement for awful arbon-based basic stuff😊
The worst one I’ve personally seen is a milk brand which is labelled in large letters “lacto free” and advertised as being better due to lack of lactose HOWEVER it says on the back that it is in fact NOT lactose free but just has less lactose than usual. People who are badly lactose intolerant could die from this!
No, you see what they mean is you pay for the milk but get the lactose free! Aren't our corporate overlords good to us?
Do you remember the brand?
People that badly lactose intolerant shouldn't drink milk since its very difficult to remove all trace amounts of lactose from milk. I drink those lactose "free"(with trace amounts) milks and they don't obliterate me personally. And I'm prettyy lactose intolerant.
Lactose free milk seems like a scam anyway. They aren't removing the lactose, they just pump it full of the enzyme the body uses to digest it.
Truly Lactose intolerant people still cannot drink it.
@@Waste-Water-Management Im not even super lactose intolerant since I can eat cheese just fine, but those "lactose free" milks run right through me.
The reason why I only ever purchase squeezable tubes of things like toothpaste and cosmetics - I use a tube squeezer. I squeeze every last drop out of the tube.
If I can cut it open, there is more inside to scrape out as well!
I just squash it down with the handle of my hairbrush against the bathroom bench.
@@chaoticneutral6288just good practice not to waste.
@@chaoticneutral6288 They do, although, you can get a dowel for less, and if you're looking for a few inches, you might not even have to pay for it. You can then just wrap the tube around it until you've got basically all the paste out. If you're cheap, you probably could at that point cut the back of the tube and get the last little bit. But, in all honesty, the tube squeezer gets nearly all of it.
My university gives us free access to all of the materials we need. And yet, I still sometimes just pirate it, because sometimes they'll give you it on a website that will time you out and lose your page, or make you login every few hours. It's infuriating and not what you want when you're trying to study. Quick tip though. If you've pirated a copy of your professors book, don't share your screen on Zoom to show him an extract you're talking about. Not that I ever did that.....
whut?? And do they sell printed out copies?
@@irissupercoolsy I don't know if you can print them. I study distance. It's a masters though, so I'm not sure if they do it with undergrads. There's a big movement in education now for them to not use any materials that cost money. They don't usually send an entire book (unless it's open access), usually just the relevant chapter or article. Sometimes you have to go through a third-party website and log in via your university account, so they've obviously paid for a licence so the students don't have to buy it. Call me old fashioned, but that's the least I'd expect when I'm giving them over 10 grand.
@@joepiekl Uni Librarian here - it's the publishers. They won't let us make it available, and some of them charge thousands of pounds for access to one ebook. We really want to make it available but we can't. The publishers want to sell it to students directly and do everything they can to drag their feet so that libraries can't give good access.
@@lilaclurva1 I don't doubt it. But then that really comes down to the course developers choosing materials that are affordable, and let's be honest, a lot of them don't care because they're not paying. Frankly, if I was paying $50k a year for tuition, I'd expect that to cover the cost of the learning materials as a minimum. I wonder how many universities would continue to use ridiculously expensive books if they were the ones footing the bill.
My university's library kept copies of the textbooks for every class, and the scanner was free
I think TH-camrs putting a progress bar on their ads is brilliant. I would never ever in my life use it to be able to skip the ad to 2 seconds from the end so that I don’t miss the actual content but skip the advertisement
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I just use SponsorBlock. Automatically skips over the sponsorship segments in any video in its database.
There's a Chrome extension called "Sponsor Block" that can skip over those ads inside videos.
It works by having people mark the ads, so those progress bars help even more.
Keep in mind that if you don't want to watch, you can skip and TH-cam often times has a histogram that shows when people skipped to, so you don't even need to work that hard to skip the ads if you want to. So, they might as well put the progress bar up, and annoy fewer people.
man, the fact that there are places where you not only don’t have to pump your own gas but that it’s *illegal* to even try is insane to me
I think it’s worth a video tbh
But I also heard that you have to pay in advance, not fill the tank then pay for the amount you put in. I suppose you have to guess how much is needed?
@@Phiyedough When you prepay for gas and don't use the full amount it either gets credited back to your card automatically or you go back to the till for your change (if it was cash). That's how you get the final receipt, too. Very common even in places where you pump your own gas.
@angel it also creates jobs, we have it in Oregon as well.
Actually in Oregon the law isn't that it's illegal to pump your own gas. It's actually illegal for the attendant to let you pump your own.
As a Brazilian living in Britain, I've learnt (more confirmed) that consumer laws in Brazil are invaluably stronger. Wording in products, goods quality and service performance are strictly legislated. We have a wonderful org called Procon which makes it very easy and FREE to complain (and win) when you're screwed by a company. Here in the UK there are basically zero regulations and the means to complain are convoluted and designed to make you let go of your rights.
That's actually really nice. I wish more countries could take this aspect from Brazil.
I am always amazed when someone claims our consumer laws in UK are so great.
Good to know! Other countries need to up their game.
@@oakstrong1 We literally have the ASA, CAP, and Ombudsmen who you can complain to very easily and for free. The problem is we as a nation are content with just grumbling and having a whinge to our peers, waiting for the annoyance to disappear on its own, rather than actually seeking legal action and getting the problem solved.
17:15 I mean, in theory couldn’t each student print out 2 pages and if there were enough students to collectively print out the entire text book and then make copies of the pages? I mean It’s for educational purposes so do the copyright laws change? Again definitely not suggesting this, for sure not, don’t do That of course
It’s stupidly ironic how immediately after Evan says “stop pumping ads everywhere” I got an unskippable ad. And it was, unsurprisingly, the same company that’s been dogging me for months to buy their product, a “cheap” phone plan that doesn’t even cover the state I live in.
I've noticed corporations are cramming ads everywhere they can get away with and rarely are we given any compensation for the extra ads being shoved in our faces. Perhaps I'm just spoiled by ad supported content, but when ads invade spaces that were previously ad-free and I am not receiving any extra value for having to tolerate them, I see it as theft.
what phone plan?
TH-cam ReVanced
I watched TH-cam on my sister's TV while dogsitting recently. Adverts literally every five minutes on a 20 minute video. I don't know how people live without adblock.
I keep getting annoyed by the new 'old' kitkat ad, that tells me they're 'recycling' a old advert because they're now using sightly less plastic. If they really wanted to help the environment they could use the old foil and paper wrappers from when the ad was first one. (Pretty sure it's only less plastic because they've shrunk the chocolate bar).
Kit Kats are so tiny now, they aren't even worth buying.
Don't buy Kit Kat in the first place, because otherwise you're supporting Nestle
I couldn't believe it when Microsoft started making you watch an advert to play Solitaire.
You’re JOKING
wait i can still play it for free... Do you get ads after multiple games or something?
@@irissupercoolsy The Microsoft solitaire collection shoves an ad in your face after every couple of games.
@@evan Nah this happened on mine on Windows 10. I don't know if it still does it, because I switched to Mac shortly after. They put them all under some sort of Microsoft Games umbrella that they wanted you to subscribe to to get them ad-free.
And so my mom asked me to install on her computer a Hoyle card game CD she bought way back around 2005. Still works and is ad free (the resolution is crap but it's just cards.)
Alternatively, a real deck of playing cards is like two bucks.
The most annoying advertisements I saw at my gap year in China weren't the handles inside busses having ads on every single one of them, or the screens showing ads instead what the next stops are, or that one extremely large ad display at the subway tunnel so you couls watch the ad through the windows for a several seconds, nor actors/actresses and cartoon characters doing ads within the TV show or film. It was those monitors that showed ads 24/7 at private apartment buildings where normal people lived.
For some of those ads I was actually considering taking pictures and sending them to my former media and product design teachers because I was so baffled how shamelessly they were displayed. And all of those things in a country that calls itself "socialistic" 😅😅😅
Did you have a tv? That post about the tv ads on start up is so true. I’ll turn my tv on in my classroom and have to wait for 3 ads before I can use the dvd player. If you leave it on long enough, it goes into a “screen saver” like mode, 100% ads (those are usually silent)…. But sometimes I will forget to turn the tv off before bed and then it will change over from hdmi input and restart and I will wake up to an ad blaring at 3am.
No need to make me sad that China isn't actually socialist :(
@넌 지금 잘하고 있어 The only truly socialistic thing you find in PR China is the propaganda plastered all over the country 😬
Hang on a sec, in the US you have to watch an ad before you can get petrol and in some places you can't even do it yourself? The hell?
*bald eagle sheds a single tear in front of a waving US flag* America! Greatest nation on earth!
Depends on the state! Where I live neither of those things are true (and we don't have billboards!)
The ad break on this video being immediately after the sentence “stop pumping ads in our faces everywhere” 😂
Using a bluetooth headset? Ahh, the convenience of another device to charge, with non-user-replace batteries, where you can't use the mic and listen to high quality audio at the same time, nor change the DAC, nor change the microphone, are not guaranteed to be able to use while charging (extra fun at the end of the day), not being able to quickly change what device you are listening to/from - yup, totally better than a simple TRRS.
Oh, and dongles are a horrible idea for mobile devices with a single usb-port, since that basically is "oh, that main data and charging port? Let's put a mechanical load on it in a situation where you move around so you make sure the mechanical stresses always are there in exaggerated forms" (and don't get me started on "oh, your phone battery is running low at the end of a day of music listening - too bad that charging port can't be connected to the power bank while listening to music").
Lord what cheap Bluetooth headphones have you been stuck with? I’ve got none of those problems with the 3 I’ve had
@@evan Even when I've borrowed BT-headphones in the 500€ range I've run into those most of those issues - the short battery life (still an extra device to charge) and the no-listen-while-charging disappears in the 80€+ range.
But the rest of the issues persist even in the way-overpriced-for-quality price ranges.
(Fun thing really, most BT headphones are being soundly beaten by a 50€ pair of wired (and once you hit 350€ wired then BT is not even getting close unless you start looking in the 1k€+ range))
But I'll bite, what BT-headphones have you met that allows you to listen to an opera in acceptable quality while meanwhile having a conversation with a friend in the same headset? (This for all of when cooking, in a roadway tunnel, and when out in heavy winds?)
That price changing is the same on eBay. Was looking for a cooker, they introduced a 20% voucher and suddenly the cooker was 20% dearer.
It's currently illegal in the EU
It would still be 4% cheaper.
1.2*0.8 = 0.96
The word you're looking for is "20% more expensive". Plus it needs to be 25% more expensive for it to equal out. But, even getting it at 4% off when they said 20% off still sucks.
@Liggliluff dearer is fine, for reference of anyone trying to learn English from TH-cam comments. Also, mistakes are fine in an informal setting when the meaning is still clear.
@@TheFlyingGerbil I've never seen anyone use it except you
I've never heard you laughing so much but something needs to be done with this.
Related to increasing the prices before sales: In Denmark a couple of years ago it was discovered that an electronics store was raising their prices before blackfriday so that on the day the "on sale" prices were basically their ordinary ones, they got so much sh*t for it but i can not remember if there was any legal aftermath
In the UK there is a law that to prevent fake Sale prices, the product must have been offered at the "before" price for a certain length of time.
There is an EU law now that says that sales must be calculated from the lowest price of the last 30 days.
Ads on my items I paid for?
Here to remind everyone Net Neutrality is still quite dead in the US. We live in a dystopia.
Imagine if they could just come and remove your DVD’s and physical books due to licensing reasons.
I'm a dinosaur. I still buy CDs. Often I get the MP3s for free with the sale otherwise I make them myself, but I'm in control. And usually it's not even more expensive.
So what do you use instead of chrome? If you're gonna tell people to stop using something you should recommend an alternative because every other option I've used so far has been crap.
Depends what you mean by crap... Chrome is no longer the fastest browser- that's Edge, but if you want secure you could look at de-Googled chromium or Waterfox (64-bit Firefox).
I use safari. It’s fast, clean, and the most energy-efficient browser. It has amazing features if you also use iPhone and Mac OS and I love reader mode for shitty sites with annoying ads.
Firefox also has a big place in my heart.
i'm not them but ungoogled-chromium has all the things chrome does but without the nonsense and it's pretty good
@@evan I think most people that use Chrome use a Windows pc... Why would you use Chrome on a mac?
Safari is problematic too. The IRS website doesn't work properly on safari, for one. And I switched from Firefox to chrome because it was such garbage.
You can blame the old "You wouldn't steal a car..." anti-piracy ads on every DVD for the hatred towards your condoning of piracy 😅
I wouldn't steal a car, but if I could download a copy of someone else's car without impacting the owner in any conceivable way, I absolutely would.
@Alfonso La Pulce At the time, this was just focused on movie piracy. The idea was that piracy is theft, as it is taking something that you hadn't paid for.
There was a great spoof of it, I believe it was on the British version of IT crowd. :D
@@zoeadams2635 Ashens has a good video on anti-piracy measures, and points out that equating two different things (theft and piracy) is a flawed approach as people can then justify piracy by saying "Well it's obviously not the same as stealing a little old ladies handbag, so this advert is just talking bollocks." Oh, and the music in that advert was used illegally, so yeah. Pirate all you want, even the anti-piracy organisations are at it.
@@marikothecheetah9342 yeah, IT crowd dd a great spoof. Gabe Newell, said something like: piracy is an access problem, not a price problem.
Who buys one of those big bags of crisps to share? You buy it for yourself to pig out on while watching "guilty pleasure" tv.
Omg thank you for the tip about reader mode on those pay to read sites! Incredibly helpful 😊
Glad it was helpful!
Joe lycett. He is a legend. I love what he does 😭
I don't know how to thank you, but reader mode for the win. Thank you for enlightment! Got a sub from me for this one thing only (apart from the fact that video is bitter-sw3eet, or... bitter-funny).
Reader mode supremacy
@@evan Was du gesagt hast :)
It's not Boots, but Parry's (had to look that up). Boots doesn't have an apostrophe. Parry's is EDIT 2: Indian. I don't think companies can get away with stuff like that in the UK.
EDIT 1: Ha, he realised pretty soon after I paused to check.
Looks like it's sold in India - there is an FSSAI logo, and I've seen similar disclaimers on other products sold here.
@@aveekbh Further digging shows that it is in fact an Indian company! But founded by a Welsh dude hence the name.
The news report I found last night was on, at a quick glance, an American news site, but looking again just now is the Indian subsidiary of the American news group using the same logo!
To share my own experience, the whole thing with removed content from digital libraries is the policy of the one who owns the copyrights, not the streaming platform/digital library/etc. I used to have dragon age origins and alice madness returns on steam but when ea decided to take their gamess off platform (to promote their own platform, origin), they removed all the games from store and, their games were also removed from the libraries of ppl who had purchased the games. I remember one day feeling like playing amr again and then I was shocked to see it missing from my library.
When they remove it like that there should be some kind of refund, feels illegal for them to be able to just take it away like that. Wish it were illegal.
But they shouldn't have the right to take the product you've paid for.
Apparently Steam is removing games, and that really should be illegal. Xbox never removes games from _your_ library. They will remove it from the store, but you can still use it. Of course online functionality might be disabled, but offline should work. This should be the default.
In the UK - Steam can delist games so you can no longer buy it, but cannot legally remove your game, or your ability to play it (They can revoke the licence if you breach the rules) - however the multiplayer parts of a game can go offline (which might render the game unplayable)
Elsewhere rules vary and they can delist games and remove them if the local laws allow
@@Liggliluff Steam delists games. But if you have bought a game, you can still download it and launch it as normal.
Steam is actually pretty good to their users. Valve is the company that rightfully pointed out that Piracy is a service issue. They understand that if their users are being treated substantially worse then a pirate, that they will go pirate instead of spending money.
I dont mind youtubers pushing merch or patreon. With how volatile youtube can be they have to secure outside revenue.
You have to watch a minute of ads to see the web broadcast during emergency weather on my local news site. Like, tornado sirens are going off, but they really want me to go to Big Jims Honda dealership before I find out if my house is in the tornados path right?
3:33 This is partly how George Santos became a thing. The New York Dems got accused of gerrymandering and the Feds redrew our congressional and state senate maps (meanwhile we have gerrymandered districts in the Assembly for the Republicans and the courts didn’t touch those🤦). The redrawn NY 3rd Congressional district is partly how he won because he lost in 2020 before the redraw and by all sensibilities he should have lost in 2022.
On the piracy topic. Usually if it's a video game, i pirate it first to check if my pc can run it with my current specs. If its unable to run it, I will delete it and not buy the actual game. It saves me from wasting money on games which I can't even play.
Movies? ..Not so much. I think people should just watch/buy movies. Theres no 'test' like with videogames, and movies NEED the view count and the money to judge if they should invest in making a sequel.
I learned about some of this stuff in my law class. Using the word “natural” is probably considered puffery, which is allowed. It’s like when something says it’s “world’s best”
Natural should not get to be a puffery term.
@@Skenjin Agreed!
In my country they sell yoghurts with paper wrap around Im like wtf, when you wash the cup, it gets wet and you still have to rip it off and separate into plastic and paper bin.
They do it here too, but the plastic is so thin that there would be full of dents before it gets into the store. The paper (it's a thick paper) works as protection and I think it does a good job.
With the university copy pasting thing. Just inspect element and then copy the text from there :)
A trick to (usually) see past the different sizes of packaging for stuff like chips or glue... check the listed weight or volume of product in the package, usually somewhere on the bottom edge of the front.
It might be in ounces, or milliliters, or grams, or whatever, but the unit of measurement is *usually* the same across all brands selling that type of product in that location.
Ignore how much packaging it has. I've seen breakfast cereal that's $2 more for the largest package, but it only has eight more ounces of cereal in a box that's two inches taller, an inch wider, and half an inch thicker.
Evan, what search engine _do_ you use??
*hugs to ya from Canada 🤗💕💕💕
ps. Can't wait to see your house plant video tour, someday. 😉
EDIT: You're photographs are NOT "merch" & they never ever will be. Your art is something original to from you to us. It will never go out of style, fall apart in the wash or fail to fit if we have a bad week. Thank you for just being you & keeping it real Evan. You're a sweetheart.
I guess it isn't merch in the sense that it's not stuff based on his channel. It's just media he creates and sells independent of the channel.
@@Liggliluff It's all just _so much_ better! It'll never go out of style, not fit, get all tattered & frayed. You simply frame it & hang it. Timeless conversation starters, by Evan. 💕💕
9:00 You use bluetooth earbuds. Which are disposable, non-repairable, and 20x more expensive. Congrats.
I have wired earbuds that are over 15 years old. Bluetooth earbuds are physically incapable of surviving that long because the batteries are designed to self destruct.
Not to mention that bluetooth as a standard is AWFUL. It adds loads of latency, and cannot transfer enough data for a lossless quality signal. Even the most advanced bluetooth transmitters/receivers don't operate nearly at the same quality as a 3.5mm jack.
You're the one who lost by using Bluetooth earbuds.
This sounds more like 4 long paragraphs of cope
I found a lot of my music purshased from Amazon would vanish off my phone over time. So now when I buy trachs (which is becoming almost impossible) I move those tracks out of the Amazon folder as soon as they've downloaded.
You know what I hate about mobile ads? Those ones who take over your phone's volume and just set it to max no matter what. They even have a MUTE BUTTON BUT IT DOESN'T WORK. As someone who regularly wears headphones and has autism, my ears are not best pleased. They're already oversensitive to everything, I do not need that.
Is that an android thing
@@evan Not sure, it might be. It happens so regularly to me now I'd assumed it was more widespread. But they are utterly infuriating. It should definitely be illegal imo, mostly to save my ears. Like how it's illegal to have TV adverts louder than the shows, although it doesn't feel like that's the case. Honestly I just wanna play a quick game at a family gathering or in public without it blasting out at full volume. Gotta love late stage capitalism
@@evan never happened on my android phone 🤷♀️
this is interesting, i've never had this happen on my android phone nor my current iPhone (only since 2 months ago) but that sounds dreadful, maybe it was because my phone is always in silent mode that stopped this from happening, thankful for mute switches on oneplus and iphone
I’m not familiar with the mute button you speak of in this situation, however, i get plenty of ads that have the volume set crazy loud & I too wear earbuds a lot. I dont enjoy jumping out of my skin while doing the dishes or trying to study
16:20 Wait. I'm American and I have a washing machine in my kitchen (to be fair, it's an old house). Where else is it supposed to go if you don't have a laundry room or basement?
I've seen pictures of them in bathrooms.
Imagine trying to relax in the bath with the machine chugging away in the corner.
Bathroom is standard in Sweden, I've seen it in the kitchen once and that person was a British immigrant.
To be fair, not all weirdly shaped districts are bad. The famous headphones district is actually ok, because it connects two black communities with the same interests while separating a Latino community with different ones. Both are blue, it doesn’t matter voting wise
(5:50) Some terms in EU are protected, and you can't call your product that thing unless it is that thing. But some terms are not protected, but I think some should be for the sake of consumers. For example, I don't think you should be able to use the term "best" in a company or product name. For example in a store I've seen a product called "best [product type]" and it's so misleading.
In Sweden you can't use best in marketing, which my former workplace found out the hard way. After that they switched to saying probably the best.
Raising a price to counter a sale is illegal as all hell even in America
Boycotting does NOT work. It has been proven to not work.
Even just in this video, several examples. You attend college, you need to pay pearson a subscription for no reason and use books from them that don't give you basic functionality. So what, do you just NOT go to college? But society has decided that you MUST go to college to get offered a job in many fields (which absolutely DO NOT need college, for example, IT. I learned FA about IT in college, yet for some reason I need a degree to work in the field?)
I should refuse to buy a phone without a headphone jack (which I have done). What companies do is that release software updates that are FORCED onto older models which break their basic functionality. My old phone drops calls and doesn't give me messages because it is old. The solution is to buy a new phone, but I won't buy a phone that doesn't have basic features. Oops, you can't buy a phone with basic features because they don't exist.
Don't buy a smart TV that advertises to you and sells your data. Well Smart TVs ranging from the lowest price to the highest price all do the same thing. They build ads in and sell your data. What do you do, not buy any digital displays?
Gas stations advertise you you when you pump gas. So what? Don't drive? No more driving? Sorry America has decided that you are not not allowed to drive because we design our cities in ways that are as unfriendly to other forms of transportation as possible so that they can sell more cars.
The dime one to feed a child is REALLY bad wow
Piracy is moral
I was right there with you going Joe....Joe... Lycett! My favourite way to remember it is 'that's the way aha aha joe lycett'
If purchases can be stolen by a supplier then piracy is not a crime against that supplier but simply recovering stolen property!
Also - Brain Food... It is NOT a donation if you are compelled to pay, it is extortion which is a crime!
*tips tricorne*
Also no TV or smart TV user/owner.
Ad blocks everywhere.
Personalized and restricted the shit out of every fucking app everywhere (took me days, not gonna lie).
I look at people when outdoors or my book, not at billboards and screens. You can get used to it very easily.
Lately I have been thinking of buying an old PC, for a Win7 and for the sake of keeping it solely for playing old games, hoarding music on it and just enjoying MY OWN PAID PROPERTY. FOR FUCKS SAKE WHEN THE INTERNET DROPS AND I CAN NOT PLAY SIMS BECAUSE YOU NEED TO BE ONLINE I HATE IT.
Good day, sir!
10:45 "I have nothing against Piracy". Full stop. No need to explain. No need to justify.
I do miss the old Cadbury bars before they made them round. But literally because I got more chocolate 😂
They aren't round where I live in the US 😂
(10:40) Since Swedish law allows you to copy digital content, it's a right you have. So you can purchase the game, then you can hack it, or "pirate" a hacked version, legally. -- Some people will argue it's illegal. It's not, it's the right I have as a Swedish resident.
I love your videos but shilling any Apple product seems a bit ironic given they are the masters of aholedesign and anti-consumer behaviour, just saying
TV license ppl actually need to chill. They visited us n guy wanted to just walk into the flat. They literally have no right of entry. So the agents are super aggressive and rude to intimidate so u would let them in.
I buy my physical games, movies and music because I am sick of losing money to reclaimed content. I also live in an area with iffy internet.
Can you play You Tube videos in reader mode? I gotta find this ''reader mode''.
LMAO I JUST GOT A BUMBLE AD STRAIGHT AFTER YOU SHIT TALKED THEM, I CANT 😭
That TV does not sound handicap accessible how can people stand up from their wheelchairs say the name of the commercial
Knowing you have a sponsor thing at the end, I will be angrily boycotting the first 0% of your videos and only watching the final 100%. So there! 😁
Nothing is more fitting then having an Ad cut off Evan when he is saying stop putting ads everywhere
Innisfree is a Korean brand and I wonder if it’s to do with recycling. Maybe because you can recycle the paper then the bottle where’s some of the shrink wrap on the bottles is not recyclable as it’s a soft plastic.
1:52 Actually this graph wasn’t intentionally created to be misleading. I read a piece by the creator and they were trying to make it look like dripping blood
To save you a moment, 1825 days is 5 years.
So 2 pages every half decade.
Neat.
100 piece toolkits that contain 95 screws.
Mostly you don't need to pirate, open source versions of most stuff are available,
That’s why I have a dvd collection as well as digital.
This. Physical CD albums too, but that might say as much about my age as it does about anything else.
When webpages suddenly jump and you accidentally click an ad. 😡
I feel with tv's and a lot of electronics some people will show up to a shop to look around at what they have and I guess if you get a pos salesman, they could convince you to get a tv you later realise is trash. Sometimes its understandable to do your research in the actual store but yeah, sometimes it does backfire.
Speaking of pirates.. if anybody knows where to get adobe, hit me up xD
15:35 Wait Howlers are real???? i assumed those were made up by Harry Potter😅
5:57 Natural sugar...Perry the natural sugar?!
Also, you weren't allowed to pump your gas? We need another video on wierd laws America has, or jobs, because a bag filler or greeter at a shop isn't a thing either..
My fave adage lately has been “If you can’t hold it, you don’t own it.”
And sometimes even then you'll need to wipe or mod the software if you want to use off-brand refills, other file formats, or operate it in a way that would be useful to you (and seems reasonable) without subscribing to their cloud resources/services.
The worst "up to" conversational arithmetic fail I've heard this week was the tv commercial that claimed the product would result in "up to 0%" [bad thing]. UP TO ZERO PER CENT?! Please occasionally put someone in a marketing meeting who has at least a GCSE in Maths.
And many of my favourite YTers switch to a new filming location and a new outfit for sponsorship segments. Love it.
every time i watch one of your videos, i get reminded of that one cereal video and now i always feel the need to get a bowl of cereal before watching
Flushable is a protected term in the UK. Unfortunately the UK government hasn’t gotten around to changing the definition from the EU one, and thus they aren’t flushable in British toilets
What is "reader mode " ? I've never even heard of it before
An option in Firefox and Safari. It was originally introduced to tinker with the light settings so that your eyes were tricked into reading what looked like the colours of a book or newspaper on your device screen.
It’s a safari feature! In the address bar. It removes all ads and unnecessary content from sites and just shows you the text nicely formatted
So much greenwashing from companies. Great video.
6:35 1000% this. I hate that they auto-play, and are finicky with like 4 steps. also it should be illegal for them to override my Fu**ing Spotify, EVER WHEN ITS MUTED!! like your generic happy music from the license free site isn't going to get me to get your game, Let my listen to my Dang songs. (or at least un pause my music when your done and not make me go out and manually do it)
I have no strong feelings about Other People using wireless headphones, but a single microsecond of sound delay on my audio turns me into some kind of beast
If the Natural sugar is a UK packaging, I think that IS illegal, as we have a list of words that have a specific legal meaning when it comes to products for sale, and I'd be amazed if "natural" isn't on that list. So selling an artificial product labled as natural would more than likely breach the trade descriptions act.
This is a thoughtful and unique video topic. Thank you, Evan!
Pumping gas in freezing temperatures is bad enough, having it take longer due to ads is cruel and unusual punishment
I missed some of these as you just flashed the image up and off again too quick
When I was a lad back in the pre-internet days, our family had a game where we'd try to guess what the adverts were for before the name of the advertiser appeared. Those were simpler times... That Sony system would ruin that game... or make it way better, I'm not sure which.
Schwepps never even put their brand name on the ad ..😁
7:25 My thoughts exactly (Oregon so the law is a bit complicated but TL;DR you still can't pump gas in any part that isn't trying to become part of Idaho anyways).
This semester we're using English books for some modules and all of them have a huge batch on them saying "international student version" and on the inside it says that you're forbidden to bring it out of the country it has been exported to. Reason: US version is a lot more expensive (I forgot how much exactly but a lot)
Also we get them for three in our uni's library, like isn't that what you pay fees for (not that you really pay any in Germany...)
The International Editions I've used simply say "not for sale in the US", not that you cannot ship it elsewhere. In any case, US students are really getting screwed over on that one. On the bright side, the ban on sale in the US isn't actually enforceable according to my research, so students in the US can (and should) use grey-market international copies where available.
@@justsomeguy5103 now I'm curious where to get them?
@@justsomeguy5103 the book I'm referring to says on the back "this book cannot be re-exported from the country to which it is sold by McGraw-Hill" so maybe the exporting thing isn't true for everything but for this one it is :)