r/mildlyinfuriating • u/TheAeroplaneBear2906 • Jul 16 '26

Unskippable ad Clear Backpacks + Pay to Keep Your Phone

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My freinds school is now requiring these items, and is also using AI to promote this 🫠

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u/Ok-Gur-349 Jul 16 '26

Not kickbacks, kicks forward. Yondr spent six figures + lobbying state legislatures in New York, California, and elsewhere to force schools to use this monopolized technology. Seems like the concept of "device that securely holds a phone temporarily" is something that would breed competition.

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u/FionaGoodeEnough Jul 16 '26

There are a lot of weird monopolies that a functioning government would investigate if we had one. My building wanted to change laundry room service providers, but only one company does it out here, and they arr terrible at what they do.