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Marques Brownlee's ‘Panels’ Backlash, Explained (www.forbes.com)
submitted 3 months ago by Al0neStar@lemmy.world to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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Bro really tried to sell his subscribers a "50$ a year" subscription to a "wallpaper" app.

Interesting points about the "app":

  • the app has premium and free wallpapers
  • the free wallpapers are only available in sd quality and if you want hd youd have to subscribe
  • in order to unlock the sd quality you have to watch two 30 second ads.
  • theres a wallpaper called "orange" thats just the color orange
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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

For $12 per month, Panels provides a range of high-definition wallpapers for phones, a hefty price tag for something that has always been freely available online.

Meanwhile, the bottled water industry... (⁠・⁠_⁠・)

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