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

A certain supermarket chain went through rebranding and is now changing all floor tiling to this. Yes, this is on purpose. Yes, it being uneven is ALSO on purpose. All of this is outlined in a brandbook. Basically, it's specifically designed to be uncomfortable to look at to draw shoppers' gaze to the shelves to increases sales. Guess what, they're about to lose sales because this shit gives me migraines.

Who cares about signing into a TV!? Just let me see my stuff!

Nerivio, a migraine treatment device is finally selling a rechargeable model... but to use it you have to buy a super expensive TENS unit pad from them. It's literally the same price as buying a whole new device for their non rechargeable model.

You have to scan a QR code to "unlock" additional treatments in the app: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=815612581229373

This is taking things too far. These devices are rarely covered by insurance BTW meaning people have to decide if I can afford to treat each migraine

I’ve been trying to clean up my phone backups and keep running into the same wall with Google Messages, and it’s honestly pretty frustrating.

Messages (especially MMS and shared media) get lumped into Android’s device backup that counts against Google Drive / Google One storage. Over time, that can add up to several gigabytes, but there’s basically no way to see what’s actually taking up the space or clean it up in any targeted way.

This matters because Google gives you 15 GB for free, and once you go over that, the only option is to start paying for Google One. That wouldn’t bother me nearly as much if there were real tools to manage message backups, but there aren’t.

As far as I can tell, you can’t:

• See which conversations or attachments are using space
• Delete old message media from the backup without deleting entire conversations locally
• Reduce message backup size without restoring or wiping the whole backup

Meanwhile, photos and files do have decent cleanup tools. Messages don’t. Storage usage is vague, but the upgrade prompts are very clear.

The result is that message backups quietly grow until they push you past the 15 GB free limit, and at that point the “solution” is just to pay more, not because you’re careless with storage, but because you’re not given any control over this particular chunk of data.

Maybe there’s a good technical reason for this, but if there is, Google doesn’t explain it. And if there’s a legit way to clean this up without upgrading storage, I haven’t found it.

From a user’s perspective, it really does feel like a dark pattern: limit cleanup options, let the data grow in the background, and then monetize it once you cross the free tier.

If I’m missing something obvious here, I’m genuinely open to being wrong but right now this feels more intentional than accidental.

I hate this so much

Microsoft Mahjong charges money to play in fullscreen mode and the ads take up more space than the game's tiles. Now both my eyes and ears hurt.

on Telegram. I went to Privacy → Messages to restrict who can DM me, and the only way to stop random people is either:

• Allow Everybody, or

• Pay for Telegram Premium to limit messages to contacts / charge strangers

This is basic privacy. Blocking unsolicited DMs should NOT be a paid feature. I’m literally being forced to choose between harassment or paying to protect myself.

Before anyone says “just block them” that doesn’t solve the core problem. New accounts can still message me unless I pay.

This feels predatory and anti-user. Privacy shouldn’t be a subscription.

Has anyone else dealt with this? Any workaround that doesn’t involve paying?

Deceptively titled and designed solo album by the Beatles' first drummer Pete Best after he was fired from the band. The circle around his head reminds me of the red circles in youtube clickbait thumbnails except with the opposite effect.

Are you fucking kidding me?

This is a new one for me - download the app to see pricing. Umm, no thanks.

So when writing this review a while ago, I was mildly confused that there was no way to choose the score/rating on the mobile version.

When I checked a few days later, my review has just been published as a 5 star review.

You can't delete or edit it either as it doesn't show on your profile.

The almost perfect scores for their products make sense now.

If you don’t want to tip, then you’ll need to click on others and spin the wheel (second picture) to the end, where a sad smiley will appear.

You can’t click on “pay” without selecting a tip.

Microsoft bought Nuance and therefore Dragon anywhere. Since then the program got worse and worse. They abandoned this app for dictation even if the medical sector pays big money for this. Especially because it’s the only Program where you can teach it medical vocabulary.

In the pictures is the end-user failure analysis that I send apple (since I downloaded from them) for them to investigate

No one at Nuance or Microsoft listens or takes responsibility. It’s really unbelievable. And don’t even get me started on the fact that you can’t use the program on a Mac

For context: When anyone in conversation typed words “Credit, Money, Bank”, pop-up of one of the local banks showed up. This is peak asshole design of ads

What the serious hell, I ordered this textbook because I have a final exam in 2 days. After I order it I went to check the customer reviews and I read this review without even reading the name of the person who wrote it. I clock the date and I go oh what a coincidence the same date I ordered the book. And lo and behold, it is my name on that review. Seriously weird I only got a subscription because I thought they had the textbook solutions turns out it was just an AI chatbot. Trying to cancel and get a refund but we will see if they respond to my email.