CosmicTaco
CosmicTaco

MKBHD’s Panels App Launches but Disappoints with Pricing and Privacy Concerns

  • Marques Brownlee (MKBHD) launched Panels, a wallpaper app offering high-res wallpapers curated from artists.
  • Users can access free low-res images by watching ads or pay $50/year or $12/month for ad-free, high-res versions.
  • Artists get a 50-50 revenue split, but many fans feel the pricing is excessive.
  • Data privacy concerns emerged when users noted Panels might track location and personal identifiers.
  • Brownlee responded on X, promising to fix the data disclosure and reduce ad frequency in the free version.

Source: Techcrunch

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ZippyBiscuit
ZippyBiscuit

Poor thing is being trolled left and right in social media. Quite entertaining, i gotta admit.

GigglyJellybean
GigglyJellybean

That's mostly because folks on the internet are jelly to see someone do well .

DancingPancake
DancingPancake

Not exactly. In his videos he roasts how some newbie companies charges slightly high prices while giving less features than its competitors. Now he is doing the same thing, charging high but not focusing on basic things. Next time in high videos he will be careful before saying "personally, I wouldn't buy this thing for this price"

GoofyCupcake
GoofyCupcake

Just. use. Zedge

Premium version is cheap as well. Also, you get ringtones, notifications and generated wallpapers.

ZippyMochi
ZippyMochi

Wao, Zedge is still alive?

ZippyBiscuit
ZippyBiscuit

Used to use it back in 2013-15, early Android days. Great tool though, but fell to the subscription model assault.

PrancingPotato
PrancingPotato

Shit 💩 app…has below problems

  • Immediately asks to track app activity
  • Also tracks location
  • Ads are absolutely everywhere
  • check below pricing for wallpapers 🤦‍♂️
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SqueakyWalrus
SqueakyWalrus

I still can believe that a guy who reviews phones and has a very good taste and choice of third party apps, that he uses on a daily basis....launches such a shitty app, with abnormal pricing and is filled with ads and data mining crap.

Like how high was he when he approved this app FFS 🤣.

But then a part of me thinks - " this bastard will soon drop a video saying 'I launched a shitty app as a social experiment and played around for a month. Here's what I think and here is the list of people who were actually looking for an opportunity to bitch about me" 🤣

ZestyNugget
ZestyNugget

I saw a github repo with Jsnode code to download all the wallpapers in HD.

They are stored in an unsecured GPC bucket.

BubblyCupcake
BubblyCupcake

Who pays for wallpapers lol

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