Someone definitely signed you up. For lots of things.
I did that to a friend in college once, but signed her (as if I was her) up for 3 or 4 dozen different religious colleges and organizations, asking them to snail mail her information. Years later she found out it was me and said “I’M STILL GETTING THIS (#&%^@ IN THE MAIL!!!”
I don’t recall - I uninstalled it so fast I didn’t register the name. I was looking for a productivity app, so it was a planner or something. If I come across it again I will make a separate post for it so we can all grumble and wow.
I started having problems with freetube a few months back, as well. I switched to one of several piped instances (whichever one is working at any given time) in my browser.
I hate stuff like this, that thinks it’s being “cute”, or “cool”, or “clever”, or whatever as if the company and I have some sort of personal relationship and could just interact on this level. No, Ridiculous Company, you and I do not have any kind of relationship - and now we never will even try again for one, any time in the future. In fact, from now on every time I see your logo, I will remember your “cleverness” and imagine a room full of imposter marketers and imposter developers sitting in a plastic building full of foosball tables and needlessly-big vertical monitors being “clever” for each other while their stock goes further and further down the toilet.
Or is that just me?
At least they didn’t eat them…? 🤔
I see continued guaranteed employment for someone who needs a job. Can’t clean up after meatheads with AI - yet.
I installed a deb package this morning and started it up - only to face an ad for other software. It’s seeping in…
Buy less. Use less. Reward good pricing with your money. Spouse stopped buying favorite frozen sausages months ago because they went from $5 to $12. The other day noticed they are “on sale” for $5.25. Bought 2 and will continue buying them until they go back up. I’ve also started buying a lot of things on sale in bulk that will store awhile, so I can just walk by the ridiculous pricing until the next sale drops it again.
Since the receipt says the 18% “helps facilitate a higher living base wage for all our employees”, then that’s already the tip. So I would write the word “ZERO” on the tip line, and never return to that restaurant.
I’ve already stopped going to anywhere that:
Pulls stuff like this, or
Wants me to input a “tip” for fast food (which includes coffee shops - looking at you, Starbucks) and other places that don’t use the traditional waitstaff model for pampering and serving your table, or
Makes me input a tip up front before I get “service” or even product.
All of the above also means I’m eating a lot less garbagey and/or overpriced food-stuffs from restaurants these days. Better health. More money in my pocket. Higher quality food.
I have begun to believe that YouTube is trying its best to get me to never use it, ever again. Between the intrusive shorts, the algorithm that recommends the same exact things I’ve either already watched or haven’t watched for the last months despite them showing up all that time, and having to pay to get rid of ads only to live through sponsored ads that seem longer and longer all the time. On my PC I just use newpipe or piped.online, but the family Roku version of YouTube I watch hardly at all now.
So happy now that I’ve been too lazy to let my printer update anything for the last year.
I’m surprised it’s not keyed all the days long.
It did used to have great stuff. I first unsubbed years ago, and remain unsubbed until I forget what crap it became and resub - and then <DOH!> unsub again.
There are kinds of Christian that don’t fall under Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox by their own measure (which doesn’t care how the Big Three want to categorize them). Perhaps this was why? (Probably not.) Graph should have just lumped them all together as “Christian”.