<story><title>Peloton&apos;s $3k treadmill now comes with surprise &apos;subscription fee&apos;</title><url>https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/pelotons-3-000-treadmill-now-comes-with-surprise-subscription-fee/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jerf</author><text>&amp;#x27;The company has cited &amp;quot;safety and well-being&amp;quot; as a reason for introducing the membership fee.&amp;#x27;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve noticed the &amp;quot;fake because&amp;quot; lately seems to be getting more and more brazen from corporations.&lt;p&gt;This is about the third or fourth &amp;quot;for your safety and convenience we&amp;#x27;re helping ourselves to more of your money&amp;quot; I&amp;#x27;ve seen in the last couple months, and unfortunately all the other ones I&amp;#x27;ve seen are for products or services I actually have.&lt;p&gt;But I for one am just grateful that we have so many companies and governments willing to take more of our money, spend less of theirs, extend wait times, reduce services, and just generally do less for more money for our safety and convenience. Imagine how unsafe we&amp;#x27;d be if they weren&amp;#x27;t taking so much money and actually provided service. What a bloodbath it would be.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Joker_vD</author><text>The supermarket network I usually shop at lets one chose 5 product categories (out of about 30 or so) that they will get cashback from. Recently, they&amp;#x27;ve decided to split categories &amp;quot;Tea, Coffee, Cocoa&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Fruits &amp;amp; vegetables&amp;quot; into two new categories each: &amp;quot;Tea&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Coffee &amp;amp; Cocoa&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Fruits&amp;quot;, and &amp;quot;Vegetables&amp;quot;, — with the stated reason &amp;quot;to improve your shopping experience&amp;quot;. No idea how that would improve my shopping experience, but hey, they probably know better than I do, right?</text></comment>
<story><title>Peloton&apos;s $3k treadmill now comes with surprise &apos;subscription fee&apos;</title><url>https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/pelotons-3-000-treadmill-now-comes-with-surprise-subscription-fee/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jerf</author><text>&amp;#x27;The company has cited &amp;quot;safety and well-being&amp;quot; as a reason for introducing the membership fee.&amp;#x27;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve noticed the &amp;quot;fake because&amp;quot; lately seems to be getting more and more brazen from corporations.&lt;p&gt;This is about the third or fourth &amp;quot;for your safety and convenience we&amp;#x27;re helping ourselves to more of your money&amp;quot; I&amp;#x27;ve seen in the last couple months, and unfortunately all the other ones I&amp;#x27;ve seen are for products or services I actually have.&lt;p&gt;But I for one am just grateful that we have so many companies and governments willing to take more of our money, spend less of theirs, extend wait times, reduce services, and just generally do less for more money for our safety and convenience. Imagine how unsafe we&amp;#x27;d be if they weren&amp;#x27;t taking so much money and actually provided service. What a bloodbath it would be.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>api</author><text>Running with a heavy wallet is dangerous. You&amp;#x27;re more likely to lose your balance and any fall would be that much worse due to the added weight. Peloton is helpfully making your wallet lighter to ensure a safe running experience.&lt;p&gt;Seriously though: if something doesn&amp;#x27;t really need it, any form of Internet-enabling is something I see as an anti-feature and now avoid at all costs. Internet enabled features or apps means &amp;quot;it spies on you, will change or break needlessly due to an update, or will find a way to extract rent.&amp;quot; I will pay more for something without Wifi or (worse) a fucking cellular modem.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m worried about the ability to buy a non-Internet-enabled car though. I have a 2013 Nissan Leaf and am looking into upgrading its battery. The car is otherwise absolutely perfect. It just needs more range per charge.</text></comment>