Companies need to STOP doing this. r/***holedesign

[@JoeBleasdaleReal]

“Win Ping Pong to unsubscribe” is so utterly deranged it’s hilarious 😂😂😂

[@FernLake]

Next time we'll get: Solve this iq test if you don't get higher than 140 then you can't unsubscribe 🤷‍♀️

[@Miss_Lexisaurus]

this must be a breach of GDPR!

[@WooShell]

also it's illegal in most civilized countries

[@Maglev178]

It's not an AI but a full time ping ponger paid minimum wage

[@aveekbh]

It is satire of course.

[@amandastraub4796]

Evan: “Stop pumping ads in our face everywhere”. KZbin (next second): “Like a good neighbor…”

[@annaburch3200]

I noticed that exact same thing! 😆

[@eattherich9215]

What ads? I don't see any.

[@aetheralmeowstic2392]

_Laughs in ReVanced_

[@Cliffdog01]

The sites are still not profitable, so if you have an issue with ads, I'll tell ya KZbin Premium works a treat, and a great deal of YTers have said the revenue from YTP is way better than Ad revenue.

[@LeftyPencil]

"stay over there" -ReVanced

[@simonmcglary]

That “paper bottle” has more packaging than a regular label on that same bottle.

[@whitehuayra]

No sane person would believe paper would hold water

[@simonmcglary]

@@whitehuayra you would hope! That’s one expensive attempt to try and con people!

[@ZombieBarioth]

@@whitehuayra Most people would probably assume they're wax lined on the inside, you know, like a milk carton.

[@___Music_Is_Life___]

@@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.

[@Ithirahad]

@@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.

[@AutisAwsome]

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!

[@OptimusSledge]

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?

[@riverstyx7251]

Do you remember the brand?

[@Waste-Water-Management]

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.

[@Skenjin]

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.

[@Skenjin]

@@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.

[@FTZPLTC]

"Natural" was already meaningless enough, and they went the extra mile.

[@leza4453]

That's what you get for leaving the European Union it seems...

[@FTZPLTC]

@@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?"

[@QCreyton]

​@@leza4453"Natural" is also meaningless in the EU and always was. Read the regulations on the usage of that term under EU law.

[@barneylaurance1865]

@@leza4453 It's not UK, it's India. Parry's not Boot's. And I think it's as natural as any comparable product. It's obviously refined sugar, which isn't a thing that occurs in nature.

[@GingerSmurfette]

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 🤦🏼‍♀️🤣

[@HermanVonPetri]

Well, you're not too far off. It's named after a Governor Gerry. His district was shaped like a salamander, thus Gerry + mander.

[@plnkblue]

me thinking the term “geriatric” was a person named Jerry Atrick

[@Phiyedough]

I thought he was half German, half Chinese!

[@Milamberinx]

@@HermanVonPetri what's that? Oh him...

[@kendram5710]

No, it was a replacement for awful arbon-based basic stuff😊

[@laramineville]

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.

[@Liggliluff]

That's actually really nice. I wish more countries could take this aspect from Brazil.

[@oakstrong1]

I am always amazed when someone claims our consumer laws in UK are so great.

[@vacafuega]

Good to know! Other countries need to up their game.

[@Relyx]

@@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.

[@Kari_B61ex]

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.

[@skellymom]

If I can cut it open, there is more inside to scrape out as well!

[@Roxor128]

I just squash it down with the handle of my hairbrush against the bathroom bench.

[@editaudioaesthetic]

@@chaoticneutral6288just good practice not to waste.

[@SmallSpoonBrigade]

@@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.

[@seigeengine]

I thought you wrote "toothpaste and cereal" and didn't question it until the "last drop out of the tube."

[@joepiekl]

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.....

[@irissupercoolsy]

whut?? And do they sell printed out copies?

[@joepiekl]

@@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.

[@lilaclurva1]

@@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.

[@joepiekl]

​@@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.

[@complainer406]

My university's library kept copies of the textbooks for every class, and the scanner was free

[@patrick1906]

I think KZbinrs 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

[@conormurphy4328]

😈

[@Roxor128]

I just use SponsorBlock. Automatically skips over the sponsorship segments in any video in its database.

[@Spencer-wc6ew]

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.

[@SmallSpoonBrigade]

Keep in mind that if you don't want to watch, you can skip and KZbin 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.

[@riverstyx7251]

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.

[@randomstuff-qu7sh]

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.

[@sammymarrco2]

what phone plan?

[@LeftyPencil]

KZbin ReVanced

[@dell141]

The ad break on this video being immediately after the sentence “stop pumping ads in our faces everywhere” 😂

[@plnkblue]

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

[@evan]

I think it’s worth a video tbh

[@Phiyedough]

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?

[@WritingsOfQuill]

​@@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.

[@lauraevans2104]

@angel it also creates jobs, we have it in Oregon as well.

[@Fountainofyouth007]

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.

[@OptimusSledge]

I watched KZbin 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.

[@zcustard]

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.

[@DragonriderEpona]

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" 😅😅😅

[@tacotamer]

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.

[@someoldytaccount]

No need to make me sad that China isn't actually socialist :(

[@DragonriderEpona]

@넌 지금 잘하고 있어 The only truly socialistic thing you find in PR China is the propaganda plastered all over the country 😬

[@joepiekl]

I couldn't believe it when Microsoft started making you watch an advert to play Solitaire.

[@evan]

You’re JOKING

[@irissupercoolsy]

wait i can still play it for free... Do you get ads after multiple games or something?

[@randomstuff-qu7sh]

@@irissupercoolsy The Microsoft solitaire collection shoves an ad in your face after every couple of games.

[@joepiekl]

​@@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.

[@HermanVonPetri]

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.

[@PS3GamingScotland]

I've never heard you laughing so much but something needs to be done with this.

[@Kath_BookVampire]

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

[@DadgeCity]

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.

[@Tresorthas]

There is an EU law now that says that sales must be calculated from the lowest price of the last 30 days.

[@NZKiwi87]

Omg thank you for the tip about reader mode on those pay to read sites! Incredibly helpful 😊

[@evan]

Glad it was helpful!

[@TheFlyingGerbil]

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.

[@LadyMephistopheles]

It's currently illegal in the EU

[@keano2921]

It would still be 4% cheaper. 1.2*0.8 = 0.96

[@Liggliluff]

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.

[@TheFlyingGerbil]

@Liggliluff dearer is fine, for reference of anyone trying to learn English from KZbin comments. Also, mistakes are fine in an informal setting when the meaning is still clear.

[@Liggliluff]

@@TheFlyingGerbil I've never seen anyone use it except you

[@timhocking529]

Imagine if they could just come and remove your DVD’s and physical books due to licensing reasons.

[@reinhard8053]

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.

[@underhypedandoverrated]

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

[@beavanes5785]

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'

[@FinW.]

LMAO I JUST GOT A BUMBLE AD STRAIGHT AFTER YOU SHIT TALKED THEM, I CANT 😭

[@Pitchfallis]

My fave adage lately has been “If you can’t hold it, you don’t own it.”

[@HumbleWooper]

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.

[@vickymc9695]

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).

[@Skenjin]

Kit Kats are so tiny now, they aren't even worth buying.

[@Liggliluff]

Don't buy Kit Kat in the first place, because otherwise you're supporting Nestle

[@seigeengine]

@@Skenjin This is the real problem with that shrinkflation. At some point you're just not selling a satisfying product anymore. You also see products redesigned like chocolate bars changing shapes in ugly ways. It's not even a matter of getting less, but of what you're getting no longer being enjoyable to use.

[@janebaker966]

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.

[@Herr_U]

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").

[@evan]

Lord what cheap Bluetooth headphones have you been stuck with? I’ve got none of those problems with the 3 I’ve had

[@Herr_U]

​@@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?)

[@zoeadams2635]

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 😅

[@Eric_Hunt194]

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.

[@zoeadams2635]

​@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.

[@marikothecheetah9342]

There was a great spoof of it, I believe it was on the British version of IT crowd. :D

[@OptimusSledge]

@@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.

[@TevelDrinkwater]

​@@marikothecheetah9342 yeah, IT crowd dd a great spoof. Gabe Newell, said something like: piracy is an access problem, not a price problem.

[@lucyj8204]

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.

[@rhillsgamer4121]

Nothing is more fitting then having an Ad cut off Evan when he is saying stop putting ads everywhere

[@coldcoma]

Here to remind everyone Net Neutrality is still quite dead in the US. We live in a dystopia.

[@nikoliniminizoaki2542]

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.

[@Skenjin]

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.

[@reachandler3655]

But they shouldn't have the right to take the product you've paid for.

[@Liggliluff]

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.

[@davidioanhedges]

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

[@xBrokenMirror2010x]

@@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.

[@Digitalhunny]

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.

[@Liggliluff]

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.

[@Digitalhunny]

​@@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. 💕💕

[@HumbleWooper]

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.

[@hkandm4s23]

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?

[@randomness051]

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?

[@OptimusSledge]

*bald eagle sheds a single tear in front of a waving US flag* America! Greatest nation on earth!

[@smartkid430]

Depends on the state! Where I live neither of those things are true (and we don't have billboards!)

[@soccerluver310]

@@smartkid430 do you live in WY?

[@ThatRomyKate]

THANK YOU for reminding me about reader mode! Now I won’t have to scroll past 300 ads to read a recipe 🙏

[@annaburch3200]

You were talking about too many ads . . . When an ad popped in during your video. The timing was hilarious!

[@Luubelaar]

16:20 Evan, in every house I lived in when I lived in Australia, there was a laundry room. I now live in a neat, compact townhouse in New Zealand and my laundry situation is like yours- a cupboard next to the kitchen... and I love it. Every laundry room I've ever encountered was just a space to hoard junk.

[@NottJoeyOfficial]

That transition to your sponsorship was the smoothest I've ever seen in any KZbin video, even more than Linus Tech Tips. That's crazy, and I applaud you for it lol.

[@evan]

;) thanks

[@marikothecheetah9342]

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).

[@evan]

Reader mode supremacy

[@marikothecheetah9342]

@@evan Was du gesagt hast :)

[@onyx2450]

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

[@Gisburne2000]

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! 😁

[@pippofranco879]

Got an ad right after you said if that was you, that was brilliant

[@richardcastro-parker3704]

So much greenwashing from companies. Great video.

[@grantparman4705]

This is a thoughtful and unique video topic. Thank you, Evan!

[@Ashl3ycastle]

I do miss the old Cadbury bars before they made them round. But literally because I got more chocolate 😂

[@smartkid430]

They aren't round where I live in the US 😂

[@maddyartman2627]

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”

[@Skenjin]

Natural should not get to be a puffery term.

[@reachandler3655]

​@@Skenjin Agreed!

[@seigeengine]

It's also a weird concept. What does "natural" even mean?

[@gaijinhito]

"stop pumping ads in our faces, everywhere" immediately cuts to adobe acrobat ad... 😂

[@randalalansmith9883]

I love accidentally clicking on a advert, because they pay more for that than just impressions.

[@thefenixfamily]

To save you a moment, 1825 days is 5 years. So 2 pages every half decade. Neat.

[@Lvestfold4143]

“Stop constantly putting ads in our faces…” gets a KZbin ad at this exact moment

[@NotesNNotes]

I loved this video! Also the sponsorship bar is brilliant

[@darkdragonsoul99]

Raising a price to counter a sale is illegal as all hell even in America

[@castlestar454]

YAAAAAS!!!! OMG ANOTHER TED LASSO FAN! BEST SHOW EVER! Please do a video talking about your thoughts on Ted Lasso. It would make my day! :)

[@kmart1396]

Okay but the "You must win this game of Pong" is kind of stellar in a chaotic evil sort of way!

[@aquabloo04]

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.

[@seigeengine]

My take is that piracy is only wrong in cases where it deprives someone of something. If you wouldn't have bought the thing anyway, you aren't causing any harm. If you would have though, you are depriving them of something.

[@triadwarfare]

The more people expose them, the more companies are convinced they're doing the right thing.

[@mollymo1490]

Right after you said “stop pumping ads in our faces” there was an ad 😂

[@Reubentrainvlogs]

Juice cartons in Britain, some say they're "taking a step into the right direction with paper straws. Except the packaging for those paper straws is plastic. Some brands have paper packaging for them but the multipacks are wrapped in plastic

[@seigeengine]

And ultimately it's a dumb direction Just stop giving people straws altogether if you care so much. This isn't reduce, reuse, or recycle, it's make garbage out of a more polluting but biodegradable material.

[@Skenjin]

I dont mind youtubers pushing merch or patreon. With how volatile youtube can be they have to secure outside revenue.

[@silviadecarli5463]

thanks for "reader mode" tip i wasn't aware of it

[@clovermark39]

That’s why I have a dvd collection as well as digital.

[@merrygoblin]

This. Physical CD albums too, but that might say as much about my age as it does about anything else.

[@kierancampire]

Evan, that pingpong thing is a series! I am forgetting the other ones, i think some were horrible scroll options, volume options, more unsubscribe/close options, and i saw one recently that was phone numbers! Essentially, one was a random number generator that said "Is this your number?" and you had to say no until it showed your number. Another you had to go up 1 diget at a time, but like, in single units, so to get the number 100 up took 100 hundreds clicks, so a 7-8 didget number would be 7-8 thousand clicks. There were so many! So yeah, thankfully not real, just sorta memes of how awful things could be haha

[@himagainstill]

2:44 There's about half a dozen takeaways with suspiciously similar menus and the same address on my local delivery apps. They have a near-permanent "40% off £40" deal going. You think "that sounds cool, I'll grab the set meal and throw in some extras to make up the spend". Then you see that the set meal is about twice as much as you were expecting.

[@jadethegamermc]

When webpages suddenly jump and you accidentally click an ad. 😡

[@tmelir19]

There is an 'Adam Ruins Everything' on wipes and why they became a thing. Well worth watching

[@triadwarfare]

10:45 "I have nothing against Piracy". Full stop. No need to explain. No need to justify.

[@airohtheenby]

My life is now forever changed with Reader Mode! Thank you!

[@tobimisa]

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

[@Mythis1]

I feel like many of these could be easy win law suits for practicing lawyers.

[@Lightning1998JBD]

Just as Evan said “Stop pumping adds in our faces” KZbin gave me an advert

[@mighty_m1603]

Evan laughing is the best part of this video :-)

[@Interrobang2626]

"Win Ping Pong to Unsubscribe" is the equivalent to Max Von Sydow playing Chess against Death in the movie The Seventh Seal to prolong his life.

[@OMGg4m3r]

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.

[@martinajurickova5750]

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.

[@irissupercoolsy]

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.

[@danthemaninapan]

Piracy is moral

[@m.domsuni4514]

With the university copy pasting thing. Just inspect element and then copy the text from there :)

[@wisteela]

First up: I really like that shirt. That reader mode sounds great. I'm not switching from Chrome though. I want to be able to plug earphones in without an adaptor or use Bluetooth. I also don't want a notch or hole in my screen. Also, Apple - Pay more, get less.

[@DeadDancers]

I have started planning storage for a bluray collection for exactly that ‘bye bye to your movies!!’ Streaming-licensing reason. It’s annoying and space-wasting and it’s gonna be expensive as heck to buy collections of things I might want to watch again one day in the next forty years… But better than to have it just be gone and my money for nothing.

[@HonestWatchReviewsHWR]

I recently ran into this kind of thing after buying a new car, only to find out later that some features are locked behind a paywall... Some of which are one off payment (ok, I guess) but others are subscription based ones WTF!

[@OptimusSledge]

This is why reboots of Knight Rider never work. "I'm sorry, Michael, but you've used up all your Super Pursuit Mode credit. Would you like to buy some Knight Industries Tokens? They're $5, but a bundle of 10 is only $49.95."

[@HonestWatchReviewsHWR]

@@OptimusSledge 😆😆

[@Phalaenopsisify]

Soon there will be subscription based brakes or airbags.

[@HonestWatchReviewsHWR]

@@Phalaenopsisify You joke, but I can actually imagine some manufacturer trying the airbag one.

[@Ditchdigger2005]

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.

[@aveekbh]

Looks like it's sold in India - there is an FSSAI logo, and I've seen similar disclaimers on other products sold here.

[@Ditchdigger2005]

@@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!

[@Liggliluff]

(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.

[@ylya_ylya]

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...)

[@justsomeguy5103]

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.

[@Justcetriyaart]

​@@justsomeguy5103 now I'm curious where to get them?

[@ylya_ylya]

@@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 :)

[@RRW359]

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).

[@LeadTrumpet1]

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.

[@rachellecarmichael5690]

In the UK we have flashbacks to the piracy ads we had to watch before every video we put on so it was drilled into us that piracy is bad hence the dramatic responses 😂

[@steph_stargirl]

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.

[@4my4blessings]

Regarding buying movies... YES! DVDs are the way to go. Old school, baby!

[@LeoKators]

I'm enjoying this new content theme. Perhaps you could look at the animal agriculture industry next? There's a lot to unearth there.

[@evan]

in what way? :) This was just an interesting subreddit video! I have done this style quite a few times actually :) But thanks for the comment Leo

[@LeoKators]

@@evan there are many interesting things to look at, such as labels promising that grass-fed beef is sustainable even though a Harvard study states there is not enough land to scale it up to consumer demand, free range labels implying that the animals had a good life even though they're being mutilated (beaks, wings, and tails trimmed), and the euphemism of animals being 'stunned' even tho the stun gun is similar to a precise blow to the head with a hammer, just to name a few. In 2018, we implemented a new animal welfare law in Luxembourg. Recently, it came to light that since the new law had passed, 13k cows and pigs were euthanised due to the poor conditions on our farms. Those numbers were revealed four months after farmers launched the new 'fair meat' label with the slogan 'fair to the farmer, fair to the animal'. The numbers are astonishing, but keep in mind that Luxembourg has a population of only 600k. Imagine the situation elsewhere.

[@Phalaenopsisify]

I didn't know about read mode! Many thanks.

[@willewiking98]

3:01 im guessing you mean the very flamoyant mr Joe Lycett, love him to bits

[@willewiking98]

nevermind the next second you came up with it

[@Queencrazy1997]

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.

[@thescrewfly]

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).

[@evan]

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.

[@1e1001]

i'm not them but ungoogled-chromium has all the things chrome does but without the nonsense and it's pretty good

[@irissupercoolsy]

@@evan I think most people that use Chrome use a Windows pc... Why would you use Chrome on a mac?

[@Queencrazy1997]

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.

[@francisjose702]

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

[@folieablue]

the glue thing reminded me of a cream i bought from kmart once, i took the bottle apart when it was empty to find that what looked like 50ml was actually about 10ml in a fancy container. (also the deceptive brand name is exactly what mcdonalds australia does, they trademarked '100% Aussie Beef' so they could advertise it as that even if it isnt)

[@jamesphillips2285]

Harvey's in Canada tried to pull that one with "100% pur beef" (NOT "pure"). I think they were told to stop by the regulator.

[@Liggliluff]

@@jamesphillips2285 This is what we need. If someone puts "100%" in the name, it's likely deceptive.

[@musicalmoop4743]

11:06 you are correct, my father works at a waste water plant and those mess with the system

[@sammitorn5326]

Flushable wipes don’t end up in the Thames. Search for the videos online of the massive sewer backups in London. They have to bring heavy equipment down there to scoop that stuff up and take it away. It’s crazy!

[@DeadDancers]

“Don’t use the tv’s OS” doesn’t make sense to me. The tv comes with it installed, it can’t be overwritten that I know of and anything plugged into it will always be secondary when it boots up. I loathe my recent Samsung tv OS. They’ve added so much garbage it’s the classic ‘hit the sweet spot of design and then fucked it all up again in an effort to justify someone’s paycheque’. Bloated, full of useless undeletable and unwanted crap, a million options to scroll through before hitting the settings you’re likely to want, stupid app-specific buttons on the remote that - when bumped by accident - cancel whatever you’re doing to load the stupid app. Ugh.

[@evan]

My comment was essentially “buy an Apple TV” The OS is smooth and intuitive and has features that work super well with iPhones

[@DeadDancers]

@@evan I googled it a bit then and have again now. It feels like it's something I'd still have to scroll through my current TV's hub to find and use each time I turned it on but... I haven't managed to find proof of that feeling. I guess I'll keep looking for videos showing how it works before buying. Cheers. Maybe one day I will have a much happier experience thanks to you. :)