ASUS Scammed Us
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    • mogoh@lemmy.ml
      6728·
      6 months ago

      While Gamers Nexus does some decent work, he suffers from what a lot of youtubers suffer: clickbait titles, sponsored segments, unnecessary long videos, etc.

      Some find this so annoying, that they downvote this kind of content.

      Also that asus scammed gamers nexus is not that relevant for most of us. I am not saying its irrelevant, but there are bigger news.

      • dracs@programming.devEnglish
        48·
        6 months ago

        I believe Steve has said that he hates the title/thumbnails too. But Google’s algorithms heavily incentives them, so he reluctantly uses them while maintaining the good quality content.

        • helenslunch@feddit.nl
          1·
          6 months ago

          Unfortunately this is just the state of YouTube. If you don’t do clickbait, you’re just irrelevant. And YouTube does nothing to curb this.

      • DacoTaco@lemmy.world
        37·
        6 months ago

        I can understand with what youre saying, and to each their own tastes. However, id like to point out that asus tried to get them to pay 200$ for something that wasnt broken is something that is relevant to us as consumers. Specially since they started the investigation after a lot of people started mailing GN about their issues and… questionable practices

      • UsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.world
        13·
        6 months ago

        Emphasis on him suffering. The algorithm is incentivizing YouTubers to adhere to this meta. GN isn’t trying to mislead us, it’s just how the job is structured.

      • helenslunch@feddit.nl
        111·
        6 months ago

        Also that asus scammed gamers nexus is not that relevant for most of us.

        If you actually watch the video, it documents how Asus ALSO scammed pretty much every other one of their customers who ever submit an RMA by making up lies about damaged components, charging to fix things that aren’t broken, then giving you just a few days to respond before they threaten to charge you shipping to send it back to you disassembled.

      • Analog@lemmy.mlEnglish
        9·
        6 months ago

        Didn’t watch, did you?

        Yes, they reported the first hand experience because they can vouch for it completely. But they also have hundreds of people who contacted them - often with evidence - about Asus being dishonest and deceitful.

        In one of those people. I’m glad the word is spreading. Asus RMA really is that bad, too the degree the company just needs to die.

        • theshatterstone54@feddit.uk
          61·
          6 months ago

          Yeah, I use Clickbait Remover, Sponsorblock, Improve Youtube (or ImprovedTube), Distraction-Free Youtube, Return Youtube Dislike, and of course, Ublock Origin, to make Youtube work well for me. That’s 6 extensions, 5 of which are about Youtube only. 5/11 of my extensions are for Youtube Only.

          For anyone curious, the others are enhanced-264-ify, User Agent Switcher, Dark Reader, Brave Search and Tabliss.