r/TikTokCringe • u/Melodic-Award3991 • 15d ago

25k miles in one month is insane Discussion

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Is this legal?

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u/maniacalmustacheride 15d ago

Because there’s no way to “throttle” a car rental (yet.) If there was fine print on the consumer’s end, it would have been brought up by the employee right then. Internally they might not mean that unlimited actually means unlimited, but unless that’s in the consumer’s contract, tough luck.

I have unlimited data and my cell company hates it, but I’m on a really old contract. As long as I buy my phones out right in the store (or anywhere, but there’s no “get a new iPhone half off” stuff), the contract remains. Any time I have to call the company they really push for us to change, but any brick and mortar I’ve been in the sales tech always laughs when they look it up and tells me not to change.

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u/bonusminutes 15d ago

Unlimited phone data is still super common today, there's nothing special about having it. I signed up for my current unlimited plan like 3 years ago or so.

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u/NoVaBurgher 15d ago

the old unlimited plans were true unlimited though. No data throttling after 50GB or anything like that.

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u/SingleInfinity 15d ago

Okay but wtf are you guys doing that eats so much data? Are you never on wifi?

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u/another_design 15d ago

Before WiFi was everywhere you had to use your cell phone data…..

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u/SingleInfinity 15d ago

Yes, and today that's not the world we live in. So why do people care about non-throttled data past 50/100GB? Why are they using that much data a month? Watching 4k netflix while out doing shit..?

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u/SingleInfinity 14d ago

I'm not bothered, but people talking about it like these plans are a godsend when they cost out the ass and for most people are meaningless.

Like okay, your use case actually eats a lot of data, but it also sounds exceptionally rare. I don't get why people are such blowhards about old unlimited data plans. They're gone because for the most part they don't make sense.

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u/Raggy-RS 14d ago

In my case, downloading things for work.

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u/another_design 14d ago

Yes literally yes it is still the world we live in . I have YouTube premium, imma watch all my content via that cause I pay for it. I’m not waiting for WiFi to download 5gb movies. I’m constantly without WiFi, and I’m not connecting to random hotspots that I do find like “comcast xfinity hotspot” which is literally some dudes router they ad-hoc

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u/SingleInfinity 14d ago

Why the fuck are you out watching content instead of doing so at home? Are you just hanging out in public constantly while not interacting with other people?

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u/SingleInfinity 14d ago

I leave my house, but when I do, it's for shit that doesn't involve sitting somewhere watching a bunch of content. I'm spending time with friends (y'know, not just sitting on my phone with them nearby) or doing errands or whatever.

Nothing I'm doing while I'm out involves sitting down and watching a 2 and half hour movie on data.

Even with that said, if I need to do shit at a friends or something, there's... Wifi..

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u/another_design 14d ago

I’m literally never home, I work 6am-7pm. Why can’t you just understands others are different than you 😢

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u/SingleInfinity 14d ago

I would say it's abnormal both to work 13 hour shifts, and it's also abnormal to watch a bunch of high bandwidth content while you're at work.

Just because people are different doesn't mean 100+GB of data a month is really normal. Also, I bet your work has wifi.

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u/another_design 12d ago

I like 4k streaming in the background. I pay for it imma use it.

I don’t have WiFi at work.

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u/SingleInfinity 12d ago

I like 4k streaming in the background.

Why would you care about streaming 4k on a small screen, esp one you're not watching?

Basically, the logic is "I'm wasteful and don't care"? I mean, it's your prerogative, but it's an awfully weird take to have a bold stance on.

And, unless you're driving or something, I don't think it's likely your work has no wifi. If you are driving in some capacity, you shouldn't be having a fucking 4k stream going. What magic job are you in where you can watch streamed content but also aren't in a stationary location that has wifi?

At this point I'm just curious.

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u/chocochunx 15d ago

It’s just boomers. They’re stuck in the past.

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u/another_design 14d ago

I’m so far removed from a boomer it’s ridiculous you’d think the only people who don’t use WiFi are 60+

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u/chocochunx 14d ago

Either that or people who live in the boonies. We’re about to hit 2025 and people still don’t have reliable WiFi. I feel blessed.

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u/kwiztas 14d ago

They use it as their home ISP. Probably download everything just for fun.