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Utah
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Thought it was funny when I wanted to limit processor and memory usage in windows 10. When I landed on this page makeuseof.com/tag/windows-10-faster-performance/ and my processor took off LOL

Also noticed these crazy connections going on at the bottom. I closed the site and all returned back to normal. Just letting ya know.

Date of experience: December 30, 2019
Texas
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Useless garbage
February 7, 2016

I've been trying to sync my Google and Windows calendars. MakeUseOf.com keeps coming up with results but their articles are TERRIBLY outdated to the point of being useless. Not only this, but there is no way I've found to contact them to ask a new question or contact site support to notify them of their need to update articles. Clicking "contact" just refreshes the menu panel... "Ask the experts" took me to a page called "Answers"... How do you propose to answer my question when you haven't let me ask one, eh? This site is utterly garbage in my experience.

Oh, looks like the Contact link finally responded. Bully for that. Too little too late.

Date of experience: February 7, 2016
GB
4 reviews
9 helpful votes
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Makeuseofatyourperil
November 17, 2015

Everything I read and look at with make use of leaves me cold with this company. You cannot get a straight answer from them. What they offer is vaguely genuine until you start asking questions that they do not answer. Not to be trusted.

Date of experience: November 17, 2015
New York
1 review
12 helpful votes
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I'm not happy with makeuseof. I just read an article about Google Books and there was a link placed in the article that appeared to be for the Google books site. I clicked it and signed up. I gave my credit card info still thinking it was Google and I then discovered that it is something called czarmedia they want $34 per month. There's nothing free. I tried cancelling and they want $1 to cancel the membership. They probably make a fortune in cancellations. I'll be watching my credit card statements but what a pain in the neck that is. I'll never go to makeuseof again. It's a big scam.

Date of experience: January 13, 2014
Arkansas
17 reviews
30 helpful votes
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Useful as toilet paper
October 29, 2019

Articles are badly written, and edited articles are hacked together and lose the train of thought while being unintelligible. I've seen kids write better on social media than this. Site doesn't have articles listed by date which makes it hard to find the latest stories in each section. Apparently common sense and normal layouts were not on the drawing board for their webdev. Site can be done better but they are content to perform on a sub-par level on all fronts. No trace of any collaboration or management to keep things on track.

Date of experience: October 29, 2019
Hong Kong
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Opinion, no facts
February 25, 2024

I have never seen sites as bad as this one that only states opinions instead of facts that make you "digest" instead of think. What I need is information of say, a feature, usage, and other comparison of Linux stuff for Windows (eg Windows subsystem for Linux). I seriously doubt that they even know their facts straight before they made their comment.

Date of experience: February 25, 2024
South Africa
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Once again, many thanks for your regular email. I have always looked forward to going through the article, that I find profoundly related to things I want to know about and plenty of the time put to practical use. Please keep it going and keep the flavour of the articles.

Date of experience: July 16, 2020
Philippines
2 reviews
5 helpful votes
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Spying on the behind the scenes lives of celebrities and stars. The difference is that our eavesdropping and peeking is not done through the keyholes but via the popular media that these stars and celebrities are a part of.

Date of experience: April 21, 2014
Tennessee
3 reviews
21 helpful votes
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Buyer Beware!
May 6, 2015

MUO's tech info is often useful, but beware of their "deals." After a particularly bad experience with one of thie vendors, I started looking them up on Better Business Bureau and similar sites. Every one I looked at was rated "F" or, if unrated, had numerous unresolved complaints. MUO claims they "curate" their merchants and they can be trusted. That is either deliberately misleading or a fabrication. They also promote questionable software and services that pay them for the promo, so read carefully any disclaimer they post about an entry. Finally, they don't respond to emails asking for help or questioning their practices. As another reviewer noted, they seem quite arrogant. I will continue to appreciate their guides, but carefully. They are simply untrustworthy in too many areas.

Date of experience: May 6, 2015
Kansas
1 review
2 helpful votes
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FLESRUOYKCUFOG
March 3, 2019

Dont even need to explain. You and your writers need to find real jobs. We notice you're using an adblocker. We employ 50 writers around the world, and serve 20 million readers a month but we can't do that for free. We've made a point of never allowing autoplaying video ads, or ads that obscure content. Please support us by whitelisting this domain.

Date of experience: March 3, 2019
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Bitcoin Recovery
September 11, 2023

I never believed in bitcoin recovery because I was made to understand that it is not possible. But sometime in February I fell for a binary options scam which promised a higher return and I lost close to $20k. I read an article on reddit as regards to a recovery expert and genius so I reached out to Blockchainrecall.com, and to my surprise I got all bitcoins recovered within 42hours frame. I don't know if I'm allowed to share the links on here but you can contact him if you are finding it very difficult to withdraw your funds at Blockchainrecall. Com

Date of experience: September 10, 2023
Pennsylvania
28 reviews
143 helpful votes
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Dump that mother f'er!
November 24, 2023

Y'know, I am getting sick and tired of these corporate cocksuckers banning Adblockers! All I wanted was to read what would happen if you disabled Google Chrome on your Android device. But do I get to? NO! If I disabled my Adblockers, dangerous viruses would destroy my phone! Whoever puts abdblock detectors on websites should go get wrecked by a gang of angry Guidoes!

Date of experience: November 24, 2023
Netherlands
3 reviews
1 helpful vote
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A mess of everything
January 18, 2021

A site containing just everything, from news to some random stuff to have fun with. Rather good. Sometimes bump into it and even can find something useful

Date of experience: January 21, 2017
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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MakeUseOf.com's service has two things wrong:
(1) It's article about 8 Totally Free VPN Services is INACCURATE, at least as of May 14,2020, since ProtonVPN's service is only free for 7 days. That's misleading to call that "free."
(2) Under MakeUseOf's COMMENT Section, it apparently does not accept comments anymore, e.g., to explain why their article is currently inaccurate.

Date of experience: May 14, 2020
Israel
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Awful
September 2, 2019

MAO first pissed me off a while back when I read an article claiminh that people who troll scammers shouldn't do that. Stupidest article ever as the people that do are $#*!in heros. Nobody likes scam callers. And those trollers often provide useful info as well as they promote their own YouTube channel
It's a win win win MAO is seems jelly about. Now recently I read an article claiming that... the Hyundai tablet... is far better than the Nexus one... With barely giving reasons or stats why... But worse... they claim it's not the same as the car company...
Suprisee... it is. They lied cause they likely didn't bother to research. Site is trash and I try to avoid it. I suggest to do the same.

Date of experience: September 2, 2019
GB
1 review
3 helpful votes
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$#*!e
December 5, 2018

I keep getting this message. Quote

" We
Notice you're using an adblocker. We employ 50 writers around the
World, and serve 20 million readers a month but we can't do that for
Free. We've made a point of never allowing autoplaying video ads, or ads
That obscure content. Please support us by whitelisting this domain. I've whitelisted MakeUseOf.Not now."

Now, how the duck, are all your 50 eployees writing $#*!, i hoped only at least one will be the smart one, the website is $#*!, ads and ads and ads, and ads. And more ads.
And articles are $#*!, they are sending you for $#*!ty apps, with links, i dont even need to click it to know this is $#*!. I have no good words what so ever to describe this, i dont know why this website is on google, when you search for something. This should be on the bottom of the *******`th page.

Date of experience: December 5, 2018
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I paid for a life time VPN subscription which got renewed every 5 years, Makeuseof Deal did not honour this and fobbed me off with a cheaper VPN they also stated because they could not honour the VPN they would credit my account with $20, after numerous emails the credit has still not been applied to my account and they are now ignoring my emails, even though I have asked to speak to a supervisor or management... I will not be purchasing or using this company again as they false advertise products and sales on there website. And would NOT be recommending them to others after my terrible experience.

Date of experience: October 9, 2020
Louisiana
1 review
10 helpful votes
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These clowns send out all kinds of cool tech stuff, the only problem is, their website is one of those that contains one of those scam virus spyware installer programs. Go their, get your system hacked by a piece of crap virus scanner that tries to self install. These guys are idiots, their site sucks, they had their entire site hacked and stolen from the by someone in Dubai, they got it back, and still, their site is one of those sites that tries to install crap on your computer.
They suck, their stuff sucks, they are unprofessional, and you can't trust them. How many times can I say it, they suck!

Date of experience: March 5, 2010
California
11 reviews
65 helpful votes
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I found this in Ron's guide and then found THE MOST USEFUL article I have ever read for my iphone. I just got one for xmas and found this pdf on the site
http://manuals.makeuseof.com.s3.amazonaws.com/the-iphone-guide.pdf

Great articles just like Ron commented on. Everyone really should take a look at this site.

Date of experience: January 7, 2010
New York
3 reviews
11 helpful votes
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This site is awesome for those who aren't techie at all, but let's get in to why it's not good in every other way. This site is all about the world of technology, but the staff there are snobby, they act like they are the prince of "Q&A", which by the way is never answered by an actual staff member, and their entire site got hacked. The staff should be friendly and welcoming, they're web writers, nothing special. However, they act like they are the king of sites. They aren't that useful, informative or cool. I've seen much better sites with friendlier staff. "Advertise with us for x and x" amount of money? I know many bigger websites who would advertise for you free of charge. They try to get you to subscribe, download content, lead you to annoying directories -- all of which are found on Google. Some of them are malware and viruses. They act like clowns when they seem to act as if they are intelligent at the same time.

Date of experience: December 2, 2013

Overview

MakeUseOf has a rating of 2.3 stars from 28 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. MakeUseOf ranks 28th among Do It Yourself sites.

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