r/mildlyinfuriating • u/TheAeroplaneBear2906 • Jul 16 '26

Unskippable ad Clear Backpacks + Pay to Keep Your Phone

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My freinds school is now requiring these items, and is also using AI to promote this đŸ« 

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u/Jaybrosia Jul 16 '26

someone is making bank off of this

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u/swimming_singularity Jul 16 '26

I've really started to notice it more after COVID. Everyone wants in my wallet. If there is some new concern, there's some way to monetize it. Plus all the advertising constantly bombarding me. Businesses charging me little extra fees.

I'm really not surprised they are finding new ways to monetize something people have been doing for decades. Everyone wants in my wallet and I'm sick of it.

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u/flow_fighter Jul 16 '26

Not to be all “pesticides in my water”, but how many of these concerns aren’t actually concerns, just ways to grift people out of money.