Lee Duna to [email protected]English • 2 years agoAmazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV9to5google.comexternal-linkmessage-square260fedilinkarrow-up1842
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish147•2 years agoI will absolutely employ a 0 tolerance policy on forced ads. If I have paid for a service to be ad free and you throw me an ad, I won’t pay for your service. Hell, I’ll back-charge through my creditor and say I paid for a service that was not delivered.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish70•2 years agoCareful of backcharging large companies. They’ll remove your account from all their services. Looking at you Google.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish39•2 years agoThat product tying is reason #3821 we need to start enforcing anti-trust law again.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish26•2 years agoThey don’t delete anything, though. They just deny YOU access to it.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish44•edit-22 years agoNot your computer, not your data. The cloud is just a buzzword for someone else’s computer. Always run local backups.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•2 years agoYou get banned retrospectively too. I got banned from Adsense in 2003 and magically got demonetised from YouTube in 2006.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•2 years agoI’d look through the fine print if it says that they won’t serve ads. Cause I doubt that.
minus-squareares35linkfedilink11•2 years ago‘we reserve the right to change… (this, that, and everything else)’
minus-squareTheEntitylinkfedilink5•2 years agoThe fine print didn’t say I won’t do a chargeback either. Two can play this game.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•2 years agoI’d try to get a refund first unless you never plan to shop on Amazon again.
minus-squareTheEntitylinkfedilink4•2 years agoI meant it as a counterpoint, not something I’d actually do. Especially considering I don’t shop in such places in the first place. But yes, you’re obviously correct.
I will absolutely employ a 0 tolerance policy on forced ads.
If I have paid for a service to be ad free and you throw me an ad, I won’t pay for your service.
Hell, I’ll back-charge through my creditor and say I paid for a service that was not delivered.
Careful of backcharging large companies. They’ll remove your account from all their services. Looking at you Google.
That product tying is reason #3821 we need to start enforcing anti-trust law again.
They don’t delete anything, though. They just deny YOU access to it.
Not your computer, not your data. The cloud is just a buzzword for someone else’s computer. Always run local backups.
You get banned retrospectively too. I got banned from Adsense in 2003 and magically got demonetised from YouTube in 2006.
Stop, I can only get so erect
I’d look through the fine print if it says that they won’t serve ads. Cause I doubt that.
‘we reserve the right to change… (this, that, and everything else)’
The fine print didn’t say I won’t do a chargeback either. Two can play this game.
I’d try to get a refund first unless you never plan to shop on Amazon again.
I meant it as a counterpoint, not something I’d actually do. Especially considering I don’t shop in such places in the first place. But yes, you’re obviously correct.