I Hate Youtube Extremely Loud Commercials

I haven’t paid for cable since 2010 and I haven’t missed it at all. I consider myself a cord cutter pioneer.

But when I used to have cable something that really ticked me off was the overly loud tv commercials. I hated them so bad thatI actually complained to the FCC on multiple occasions and then just got a Tivo (I loved my Tivos) so I could skip every single commercial just to avoid the loud ones.

Like I said I don’t watch cable anymore but Youtube is one of my go to streaming services and I really like it.

Except for the overly loud commercials. See I don’t hate commercials at all a lot of them actually are funny, interesting or just mundane in short I don’t mind watching them.

But when I am watching something at a reasonable volume and the commercial is about twice as loud that really, really piss me off and I think Youtube really need to apply and enforce some guidelines on this issue.

And advertisers you are not engaging viewers with these tactics you are just antagonizing them.

Spotify Made Me Cancel Them By Bitching Over Apple Music

I have been a Spotify subscribers since 2014. While I do not use the service every day as I actually relay more on Pandora I still pay for it for those occasions when I need it.

I will be canceling the Premium subscription I had have since 2014.

When Apple music came out I signed up for the 3 month free trial and at the end of the trial I canceled the service as I liked Spotify UI more.

Now I started using Apple Music again a couple of months ago out of anger against Spotify for it constant attacks on Apple. I have been using both service side by side since April.

But I am finally done with Spotify and will not renew it again when my subscription expires.

Why?

Well Apple just announced a new version of Apple Music at WWDC that looks a lot better while Spotify just keep escalating their attacks against Apple.

Spotify it’s acting like an entitled little brat that think their business model deserves to be maintained even if is unsustainable.

In my opinion all music service are overpriced because the music labels and the rich artist (ex. Taylor Swift, Adele, West etc) had convinced many people that artists need to eat and that's where the bulk of the subscription money is going. When in reality the bulk of the money goes to the labels and the big names artist with very little left for the rest.

But Spotify had taken the habit of bad mouthing Apple claiming anti-competitive practices just because Apples requires them to abide by the same rules all other developers had abide since the App Store was introduced.

And that whining cry baby attitude from Spotify just pissed me off and I won’t be supporting their business anymore.

Why not negotiate a better deals with the labels or diversify it’s business? Because it’s easier for them to demand a preferential treatment to support it’s business model.

Yes, Apple is bigger and richer than Spotify but that do not make them evil they just have smarter people building a sustainable business and for that reason they deserve to reap the benefits unlike Spotify that wants to survive on a business model that had proven unattainable under the music labels terms.

I am tired of business thinking they have a right to exist. They don’t. Either adapt or die it’s that simple.

Plus Spotify is even more despicable having benefited enormously from what Apple had built but still acting like a B####.

Uber Need To Remove Drivers Ability To Rate Riders And Avoid Tipping Extortion

I see a lot of people complaining that Uber do not provide an option to tip it’s drivers and drivers are demanding tips in cash from riders even when most riders don’t even carry cash and use Uber in the first place in order to avoid dealing with cabbies doing the same.

But why people complain about the lack of a tipping option instead of the lame and antiquated tipping entitled society we have created.

It seems that everyone is always begging for tips. Uber drivers, cabbies, baristas, waitresses, store clerks, gas station workers, valet drivers, mechanics, tow truck drivers, delivery guys etc. This is so ridiculous employers should pay it’s employees a decent wage and employees need to stop lowering themselves to begging for tips.

But back to Uber.

Drivers aren’t doing you any favor by taking you from point A to point B you are paying a fare and they get to keep 80% of it.

But in top of that the want more on the side and they are not asking they are demanding it.

Just to be clear what piss me off is not people getting tips but they demanding it. Some Uber drivers are even saying they will leave a low rating for non tipping riders. WTF a rider just put money in your pocket but you still will leave a negative review if they don’t tip. Really?

I believe the solution to this is for Uber to take one from eBay’s playbook and remove the option for drivers to leave feedback on riders. Before eBay removed the option for sellers to leave negative reviews you would see sellers extorting positive reviews from buyers even when they provided a crappy service.

If Uber remove the option for drivers to leave feedback for riders it will preserve its convenience but otherwise it will look like any other cabbie business with crappy drivers.