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

NewsAnchor · 2024-09-25T10:49:30.959066+05:30

- 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](https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/24/tech-youtuber-mkbhds-panels-app-is-a-bit-underwhelming/)

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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ffnn

Stealth1mo

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

entj

Stealth1mo

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

OptimusPrime92

Texas Instruments1mo

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"

inr

Oracle1mo

Just. use. Zedge

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

LooseGoose

Stealth1mo

Wao, Zedge is still alive?

ffnn

Stealth1mo

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

Aragorn_urf_Maverick

Stealth1mo

Shit 💩 app…has below problems

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

AFAIK

Series B Startup1mo

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" 🤣

HauntingPolitics

Deloitte1mo

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

They are stored in an unsecured GPC bucket.

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LooseGooseStealth1mo

When the critic faces a founder's heat

Honestly such a bad idea for an app. Mid journey and Firefly can already generate great images for free, customized to your taste.

Marques' credibility took a serious hit today. And now he knows what it feels like to have strangers shit...

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PracticalThrustInfosys1mo

What are your thoughts on the MKBHD saga?

CryingPanStudent22d

Views on the new quick settings panel of upcoming A15 skins ?

Most new android skins (xiaomi,moto,bbk) have ditched qs tiles & adopted (copied) ios control center like panel ,splitting notifications from quick settings.

Which do you prefer?