• MakeUseOf

Overview

MakeUseOf has a rating of 2.33 stars from 30 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. MakeUseOf ranks 28th among Do It Yourself sites.

  • Service
    3
  • Value
    2
  • Shipping
    1
  • Returns
    1
  • Quality
    2

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Positive reviews (last 12 months): 33.3%
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Top Positive Review

“Bitcoin Recovery”

Dave K.
9/11/23

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

Top Critical Review

“Wrong Information: MakeUseOf's article about Truly Free VPN's is inaccurate.”

ED k.
5/14/20

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.

Reviews (30)

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Thumbnail of user francistlopaz
27 reviews
16 helpful votes
November 24th, 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!

Tip for consumers:
Destroy all villains who created the ad lock detectors! They deserve to burn in Hell!

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Thumbnail of user edk128
1 review
0 helpful votes
May 14th, 2020

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.

Thumbnail of user jamesw1708
1 review
1 helpful vote
December 30th, 2019

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.

Thumbnail of user jsiu123
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 25th, 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.

Thumbnail of user gf140
7 reviews
6 helpful votes
July 20th, 2022

Lists FREE Reverse Look Sp sites. But all of of the ones listed charge... none of them are FREE Another useless site!

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Thumbnail of user wimpyt
14 reviews
29 helpful votes
October 29th, 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.

Thumbnail of user markt921
1 review
0 helpful votes
October 9th, 2020

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.

Thumbnail of user cc522
1 review
1 helpful vote
December 16th, 2019

makeuseof.com & related sites suck as stackskills.com are SCAMS. BEWARE

Dispute charge with your credit card company!

Thumbnail of user joeb620
1 review
2 helpful votes
March 3rd, 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.

Thumbnail of user mok23
8 reviews
2 helpful votes
August 17th, 2016

Always up-to-date and good articles

Thumbnail of user satank
1 review
4 helpful votes
September 2nd, 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.

Thumbnail of user luish33
3 reviews
1 helpful vote
January 18th, 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

Thumbnail of user johnl127
2 reviews
5 helpful votes
April 21st, 2014

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.

Thumbnail of user josha30
1 review
9 helpful votes
February 7th, 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.

Thumbnail of user davek934
1 review
0 helpful votes
September 11th, 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

Thumbnail of user pifh
1 review
3 helpful votes
December 5th, 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.

Thumbnail of user neviller7
1 review
2 helpful votes
July 17th, 2020

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.

Thumbnail of user jiml77
4 reviews
9 helpful votes
November 17th, 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.

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Thumbnail of user maryb170
3 reviews
21 helpful votes
May 6th, 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.

Thumbnail of user danielf29
1 review
12 helpful votes
January 13th, 2014

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.

Thumbnail of user blakeb9
3 reviews
11 helpful votes
December 2nd, 2013

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.

Thumbnail of user lorit3
5 reviews
20 helpful votes
March 28th, 2012

I have read a lot of interesting and helpful stuff here. Some of the cheat sheets are useful, and they had a list of top iPhone apps that saved me some money because there were a lot that were free and better than some paid apps.
I don't know about viruses and spyware. I have an iMac because I am online mostly and didn't want the aggravation of always having to worry about what site I went to. I never had any problems, but then, I wouldn't because of my OS. If you are downloading anything, it is probably a good idea to have your anti-virus up to date no matter where you are.

Thumbnail of user mikes10
1 review
10 helpful votes
March 5th, 2010

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!

Thumbnail of user christines15
1 review
1 helpful vote
April 7th, 2013

I knew next to nothing about new technology just 2 years ago, it was very frustrating and I did not know how to protect myself from the likes of key loggers and such. My so called friends acted as if key logging was just an urban legend... ya right, so fast forward I am not totally crazy and without MUO I would still be in the dark ages. No they did not directly help with the key logging however they have such an arsenol of useful information and even a ask the pros questions forum, which someone always gives me a useful solution to an issue no matter how big or small. The guides and free cheat sheets are icing on the cake oh I guess the cherry would be the points accumilated system which you can trade in for cool software, I just got rightnote from points I earned for just being me and giving honest feedback and such. I think they rock hardcore metal style. Christine

Thumbnail of user skyk1
12 reviews
15 helpful votes

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