‘I Just Feel Ripped Off’: A Week of Users Asking What They Pay For
Ads inside paid ChatGPT, Cursor’s ‘unlimited’ ending, top tiers that feel slower, older models quietly throttled and bills no one can read: a week of paying users on Reddit and Hac
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Ads inside paid ChatGPT, Cursor’s ‘unlimited’ ending, top tiers that feel slower, older models quietly throttled and bills no one can read: a week of paying users on Reddit and Hac
Verbatim from Reddit this week: Perplexity's Comet browser 'gutted' into a credit-metered add-on, the web app dropping its usage meter and model labels, favourite models pulled, a
Verbatim from Reddit this week: users of Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT saying their AI has gotten wordier, more performative and less reliable — word-salad answers, 'Claudish', made-u
Verbatim from Reddit this week: a 15-second clip that ate 70% of a Runway user's credits, an agent that spent 9,000 credits without asking, prompts 'banned for no apparent reason',
Verbatim from Hacker News this week: Claude Pro 'consumed within an hour', usage limits that 'cannot be trusted', a model that refuses and lectures while burning the quota you paid
Verbatim from Hacker News this fortnight: Cursor “enshittified at a surprising clip,” a Copilot billing header that skipped the premium quota, a Codex bug running up 10x charges, a
Verbatim complaints from Reddit this fortnight: Opus 5 called “rage-inducing,” Cursor accused of hiding which model you’re on, and Perplexity users watching features get “gutted.”
Verbatim complaints from paying AI users this fortnight: Claude Code subscribers bracing for a temporary limit boost to lapse, Perplexity veterans watching their plan tighten, and
Verbatim complaints from paying AI users over the past fortnight: Codex Pro subscribers exhausting $200 plans in two days, usage vanishing overnight with nothing running, and Claud
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