Will Humble Bundle get your money today?
Why so? Have they stopped selling bundles? Are they no longer of quality?
Oh... you just didn't get what you wanted...
Cry me a fucking river. I don't want it either, yet I get that there's a market for it.
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Well, to be honest, I did buy a previous software bundle because it had actually useful software there (the one with Directory Opus, which is a nice file manager), but this one is really a joke.
Most, if not all, the software in this one is really bad: software that people should never run (system optimizers should have died in the 90's), or software that has free counterparts made by freeware or even commercial developers that is usually much, much better.
Of course everyone is free to spend their money as they wish, but this is promoting one of the worst parts of the internet. Companies that makes useless software that hogs systems and creates problems, and fills websites of bad advertising, like the many "your system is running bad, click here to optimize you computer", and from HB I expect something better.
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Hmm, fair enough. Didn't know that they were awful pieces of software.
But, care to elaborate why we shouldn't use them? I haven't bought the bundle, but I just am mostly interested.
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defrag pro thingy, for what? vanilla defrag is good enough unless you already know what you need and why. Unninstaller?, useless, if you know what you're doing you don't need it, if you don't know what you're doing then it can't help you. Backup? Copy pasta isn't that hard. System care? Useless scams. Driver thingy? If you can't update a driver yourself then you probably don't even know what it is to begin with. Pointless. VPN? Dunno I guess a few may be trustworthy, but people who are into that stuff probably know what to use. Malware thingy? Best AV is common sense, AVs just slow down and annoy performance. Hotspot thingy? No idea what it is, meaning I probably won't ever need it like the rest of the bundle. File recovery? Again, those who know about it probably know what to use as well. And Auslogics? Pretty sure I've heard that name somewhere and not for a good reason, and the linked homepage? "Double your computer speed today!" trololololo. Winzip? I guess if it's a good tool one could indeed buy it, dunno, I use 7zip, which is free, though I'd buy 7zip if it wasn't. So yeah, this is worse for me than the PS bundle, and I don't even have a PS.
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Like Cunin said they are selling mostly utterly useless software or ones that have just as useful free counterparts.
Also there were a few times where they sold abandoned early access titles.
But yeah, i haven't got what i wanted from HB for about a month and a half and i'm unhappy :(
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8901 bundles sold for now, maybe some people like this kind of jokes :D
edit: oh, and do not forget about charity! ^^
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All of my nope. At least I'm saving money, so that's something at least.
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^^
You should have seen my face when I refreshed the page and saw it was a software bundle... Sigh! x)
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there is no need for a heart emoticon in every bundle you post ;p
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The heart is there for easier visibility for bundles, but I and the other bundle creators mainly post it so it's easier to search in the deal section. Since there's a lot of freebies, random deals and what not, then it's smart to be able just to paste in '❤' and you will only see bundles.
A lot of people appreciate it and don't want us to change that. Plus it has been like that for 1½ years now.
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oh ok i didnt knew that, i thought you only do it because you love every bundle you come across ;p
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Rofl ! No no :D
If that would be the case then there definitely wouldn't be a heart emoticon on this bundle.. ;)
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i mean if you want this sort of thing shouldn't you already have it?
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Kind of ridiculous to assume that people will have the $80 for the VPN, for example.
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Or if you don't want to screw around with learning exactly what tracking is going on so you then learn how to manually block each of them on your mobile device, which aren't nearly as friendly towards customisation as a desktop computer is. Or in the case of this VPN, split the load of online tasks between several connections to gain an equivalent of a higher internet speed.
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Or if you want to get past an arbitrary region restriction. Or literally everything that Uroboros said.
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Free VPNs are mostly able to do that succesfully but they can't promis what Uroboros mentioned
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They're usually riddled with ads, paywalls for different sites (like BBC, Hulu and so on), they sometimes throttle your speed and they limit the amount of locations and the data sizes. So, for example, Tunnelbear is slower and you can only use 300MB.
Hotspot Shield has ads, paywalls and limited locations.
The list goes on and on. You'll never get a great service with the free versions. At best you'll get a temporary solution to a single issue.
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There are free VPNs on browsers as add-ons which are pretty good. They're pretty good but they're ofcourse never perfect since it's "free". The down side of them is probably you cannot run them with other softwares
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I'd say that $6 for a year of no hassle is pretty worth it, in my opinion. Especially since you wouldn't really be able to get a VPN service for that long for even twice the price.
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I would have bought it if it was 3 licence WinRAR...
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Or just download 7zip, which is superior to both and free
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Does anyone use winzip anymore? Windows can open basic zip files last I checked, and anything else can be opened by 7zip (open source / free).
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my exact thoughts, I am always confused when I see winzip installed on someone's computer
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7zip - open source, free and probably the best one out there.
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+1 for 7-Zip, I've been using it for like 15 years... Can't believe people still even use WinZip. Or WinRAR for that matter.
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Anyone have any experience with Speedify VPN and Smart Defrag PRO ? I need a good VPN (since my country is being run with dictatorship,everything is blocked) and a defragger.
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I don't care about the other software but that VPN does look tempting at that price..
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You did again vote for Erdogan, so I can say you got that going.
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my God ! I clicked to see what Speedify is and guess what ? this page is banned
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Probably banned by the country. The UK usually bans a lot of random sites too. Especially the female ejaculation porn. They seem to dislike that.
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What the fuck... Man, I dislike all this censorship!!
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Only interested in the VPN software, but only slightly, so its a no for me.
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It apparently doesn't work on Netflix... so yeah, my interest dropped to zero on that news. But it does claim to work on youtube, bbc, hulu and amazon, so I guess if that's what you like then it would be fine.
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To doo what on Netflix? I'm new to this. Just curious.
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If you are subscribed to Netflix, then the content is fixed to whatever location you are in. In my case the netflix that we get only has about 1/10th of the content compared to America or other countries. A VPN can let you fool netflix into thinking that you are in America or another country and give you access to the content available in that country. So it's just a way of bypassing antiquated regional restrictions and viewing more content. You're paying the same price anyway, so why not be allowed to enjoy the same content?
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I dunno if you need this MilleW, the lowest BTA at the moment is 5.62$
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Like others, only interested in the VPN and not enough to do the leg work to compare them with others, look into their background and whatnot.
Like the idea, this one's not for me.
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It apparently doesn't work on Netflix... so yeah, my interest dropped to zero on that news. But it does claim to work on youtube, bbc, hulu and amazon, so I guess if that's what you like then it would be fine.
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wtf i can combine my cellular speed with my modem/wifi speed? Thats crazy.
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That VPN is basically a Load Balancing VPN. Here is small info about what it does:
Basically, if you have 2 shitty internet connections, you can combine them together with this software and have some-what usable internet.
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It apparently doesn't work on Netflix... apart from that it seems alright.
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Still pricy per month... I'm currently searching for a VPN service that works with Netflix but they all are about my price range.
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Not sure what your budget is, but I got a pretty good deal on lifetime Unblock All from Indie Game Bundles.
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Check out PIA the best one out there in my book ive been using it for years,also comes with a free proxy server you can set up for netflix if you want want to vpn your whole network.
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Hotspot shield from the streamers bundle works fine for us. You can choose different regions. Sometimes it will get the proxy notice but you change region and it works. Come back later to the other region and it will generally work.
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I like it, it saves me money; I buy too many bundles as it is and this makes it easy to say no ;)
(Well yeah, I would have preferred a really nice T1 with steam games from my wishlist ...)
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The Humble Software Bundle: Happy PC
3 tiers, 10 pieces of software total!
Bundle ends in 14 days!
Lowest BTA.... $5.56!
Notes:
Smart Defrag PRO, Advanced SystemCare PRO, Driver Booster PRO, Speedify VPN & IObit Malware Fighter PRO.
Pay $1 for:
Beat the average for:
Pay $15 for:
Full bundle retail: $444.22
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