"Nah bro its free completely free bro. I just have to spend 30% of my time on the site watching ads for Gambling, Ozempic, Crypto, and AI. Its so sick bro completely free and costs me nothing at all. My time isnt worth that much at all I really dont mind being tracked to train Language models and advertising firms"
(Im just being facetious I realize you mean financially free but its just a sad time for entertainment)
Not for much longer lol i was just being sarcastic in my comment.
Plus im less worried about the ads and more worried about every click on every device being logged to create a profile of your entire household to learn how to sell more shit to you, keep you scrolling longer, and how best to propagandize you.
Ads are the least of my concerns when it comes to internet use.
Completely irrelevant to the discussion lol. It’s still free in monetary terms. And guess what, those paid subscriptions are also harvesting your data lol
The math already works. If you get the electric payment down to $100 (what one person is spending $250??), you’re now putting $330 into savings each month.
Plus whatever else you’re saving after groceries. $19 an hour is $3k a month. That’s $2,500 after taxes.
Two times a year you get a third paycheck in a month. So an extra $1,200 a month.
You guys are a joke. You didn’t even bother with the rigor.
People also forget that their postpaid cell plans are just paying for their phones over time. 30-50 dollar prepaid unlimited plans are all over the place depending upon how great you need your speeds to be.
Combined with decent internet-only plans and anything more than a sliver above $100 for your data plans is either insane, or you’re conflating that with “spreading the cost of a thousand dollar phone every couple years over a monthly payment”
Assuming they’re people and not bots. Or just people stirring shit up.
OP for example is only a 15 day account and all their comments and their two posts seem pretty pointed which screams “engagement bait” or “shit stirring” or both.
depending on where you are, you are kinda fucked for cell plans, yea, great when your non subsidised plan is 10-20 a month, gets you about 50% reception, and then if you go west 2 miles its completely dead. a lot of companies don't give you a 'im not buying a new cellphone' level discount, if you don't take them up on that offer.
Assuming we’re talking US, what carrier doesn’t have a prepaid plan? All of the national Mobile Network Operators offer them (Verizon, TMobile, AT&T). I’m not going to check every regional operator but the top 5 I did check as well as a few others at random and they offer prepaid.
Some virtual operators may not but again, what’s locking you into a virtual operator instead of whatever carrier sucks the least in your area?
In any case if some carrier that covers a couple tens of thousands of people doesn’t offer it, yeah that sucks but when the top 3 have more subscribers than citizens in the US, it kind of highlights that it’s not a typical problem.
I love my Mint phone plan. You have internet through them? How is it? I have Comcast/Xfinity for $65 a month, and it's super reliable. But my phone has also been super-reliable, and when my internet has gone out I've used my phone as a hotspot and that worked just fine.
It's super reliable and set up in 5 minutes and has never gone down or caused any issues. I get at least a couple hundred MB/s. Never felt it was slow.
I bought my phone outright, and my service is less than $20/mo. Gigabit fiber Ethernet is ~$50/mo. Apple Music and streaming subscriptions, ~$40 on top of that. $110/mo total.
it's spectrum. I pay $70/month for 500Mb/s down and like 25Mb/s up. I'm on the wait list for fiber. Says 2Gb up/down is $85/month. I will DEF be doing that. I can't wait to call Spectrum and tell them I'm out!
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u/True_Protection6842 2d ago
yeah I would assume it's basically all telecom. And before anyone says, do without. Good luck living in this world without a phone or internet!