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What service do you dislike using but keep using anyway?

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Re: What service do you dislike using but keep using anyway?

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post #6

YouTube. Dislike because: ads. Keep using it because: there are tons of videos. Why not an alternative/why I don't pay: YouTube is not that relevant in my life. If they remove the free tier, I would just stop watching YouTube videos.

If you use ublock origin the ads are amazingly gone tho

Re: What service do you dislike using but keep using anyway?

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post #10

starting strength app is really bad but i keep on using it because i already have all my lifts recorded there, and i think it's easier to use than a spreadsheet and don't really want to check if all other lifts recording apps are just as bad

What do you think is really bad about it? I’m curious because I’ve regularly used it and it does exactly what I’ve needed without any friction.

it's really buggy. off the top of my head:

-logs me out randomly every few months for no good reason

-the button for sending my data to my email didn't ever work

-sometimes i wouldn't be able to close the keyboard and keep using the app no matter which part of the screen i tried to touch, i had to close it and open it

-recently it forgot which plates i have and it's showing me something like 25 + 20 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 1.25 + 1.25 + 1.25 + 1.25 (=60) for a 60+60+20 lift, when it previously would show 25+20+15

-it once showed me a unparseable json error. probably the server was down or something. it would have been really cryptic for a non-programmer

i thought it was terrible for everyone. are you on android? i'm using iOS

Re: What service do you dislike using but keep using anyway?

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post #15
post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why don't you use StartPage instead? It searches using Google, but it's private

Gave it a try, even with no tracking the ads at the top of the page are still annoying. And this comes with a results speed decrease.

I've never noticed ads on StartPage. But then I use an adblocker.
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