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I've been seeing a lot of ads for a "bulletproof vest" that is made of neoprene. Nothing screams safety about a BF vest than a YT ad that 100% text-to-speech, AI generated, and full from stolen video footage and grammatical errors.
About as real as cash being given out by the government or a one square foot solar panel powering your whole house. All bullshit garbage ads. And UA-cam allows it all, UNLESS you fork out cash to go "ad free" fake garbage horse shit ads or extortion to avoid them.
Ah, yes. The same material used for waterproof car seat covers and diving wetsuits can easily stop projectiles from a pew-pew. "Everybody knows" neoprene is sunlight-resistant, heat-resistant, chlorine-resistant, fingernail-resistant, and easily withstands contact from sharp rocks. (By the way, neoprene is NONE of the above. I have zero experience with neoprene, but I DO have access to Google.) 😆 I will assume there's slightly better results than a vest made out of used greasy pizza boxes, but neither will be particularly effective, and neither would I wager my life on.
These scams go so far back, I remember as a kid 30 years ago seeing a late night TV ad about some device that would improve your car's performance and 3x your fuel mileage or something similar. It's always "these evil companies are trying to stop this groundbreaking invention because they have a financial interest in the status quo." The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Sounds like the magnet that attaches to the fuel line gimmick, or maybe the water injector gizmo that attaches to the air intake. It's amazing people still fall for this nonsense today. 30 years ago it was impossible to research any of the claims, today it's easy.
Me too, ironically those scams usually came from "as seen on TV" commercials. An adaptor that can make your home electric bill far cheaper, a cigarette lighter plug that can make your car saves fuel or perform better, etc.
@@timezonewall Water Injection (and water methanol injection [WMI]) actually works. *However,* it won't add any power or reduce fuel usage *at all* if you don't also tune the engine to take advantage of the extra cooling in the combustion chambers. There are videos on this.
@@101Volts Makes sense. Modus operandi of these scams is to repeat things that people may have a vague recollection of hearing about in other, usually more reputable, contexts but not really remember well or fully understand the details of. Such as 'carbon nanotubes' and 'Artificial Intelligence' in the example of the video. See also, 'Quantum', and 'Blockchain', both of which are real things with real (or at least potentially real) uses but have been conceptually abused to the same extent as words like 'natural' and 'organic' in the food industry.
@@Spinelli__ he's talking about a specific charger, being sold by a company for three times the price; i guess the only scammy part is the ads themselves claiming things that are objectively false to make you buy it. if you do not consider it a scam, it is definitely a ripoff considering the identical alternatives. i doubt there is some conspiracy going on here; yes, the product works, but the claims the people (or person) selling it make are false. it also appears that the selling website isn't even operational anymore, since in the video, he does show an error message when attempting to visit the official webpage. you are trying to advocate for sellers, who have made false claims in the past, which don't even exist anymore!
@@sjebsstuff1354 These chargers are very common on the net all over big sites like Amz and AlX. Some reseller made a ridiculous video about quantum A.I. and stuff like that. Of course whichever reseller made that video is dishonest but the product itself is a great, inexpensive (like $8-$10 USD) charger. I'm not advocating for some random reseller who made a ridiculous video. I'm advocating for a great product itself that: A. can be bought from tons of other resellers without all those ridiculous claims, B. CC is trying to tarnish, C. CC is trying get people not to buy and therefore potentially profit from more sales from his affiliated & competing product instead. It's not difficult to understand if some simple common sense and logic is used.
We all know that some guy invented a carburetor for automobiles that gets 100 mi per gallon, andvgeneral motors pause the pageant so that it would never be produced. This was about the same time that general motors used national city lines to shut down the streetcar business.
@@ArtStoneUS Well yeah, just like how a guy invented a car that ran on water but Ford bought it out to hide the technology. Edit: That really is something I remember hearing more than one person claim in the 1990s. Including the metal shop teacher at my school...
@@ArtStoneUS And the old favourite the Wankel rotary engine. In reality, while providing a much more efficient fuel-power conversion on a test-bench, it had some serious issues when actually hooked up to a drive train with any load on it.... It's only in the last two years that these issues may be showing signs of being solved, so it may yet be practical, but the only 'conspiracy' was the reality of physics. But that isn't sexy.
Regarding patents - if you are shipping a product then if someone files a patent then their patent will be invalid as your product would be classed as prior art
@@VitalVampyr We can make machine components in microscopic size (CPU transistors), but making an entire machine imin the size of a cell is still very much science fiction lol
@@KaneLivesInDeath Researchers have actually made some basic nanomachines like DNA walkers and microswimmers. Practical uses are mostly theoretical at this point though. Remember that broadly defined something as simple as an axe or a wheel is a machine.
some people claim dead, and i mean really dead, drill batteries can be revived to a working state with a spot welder. Just pump enough amps into it and it apparently works again.
@@ZyghqwyvThere’s a seed of truth to that. Often enough, lead acid batts can be brought back to a working state for a short while, but it’s very much a short stopgap solution.
@@reaperreaper5098 I agree. I haven't actually tried to do more than refill the cells in the auto battery with battery acid and since most are sealed now I haven't even done that in ages. Nowadays you have to watch for the battery case cracking, I replaced a battery last fall in my van after it wouldn't hold a charge and when we took it out it was cracked and leaking.
I buy these chargers off Aliexpress for $1.99. They're can charge a single device at maybe 18 watts and it goes down as you plug in more devices. The total output for everything is 65 watts.
Anything 20W or higher is fast charging. I remember when the chargers were 5W at 800 mA and before that 500 mA. It was a big improvement to get a brick that was 1-1.2 A. I spent $6.99 for my car charger with 2 ports, one being 18W and it works excellent
People need to think. Planned obsolescence is a thing... not in the sense the scammers are using, but in the sense that devices are made to be difficult to repair when something breaks to make you buy a new one... but if someone really DID come up with a miraculous device to "undo" it, they'd make far more money selling the patent to a smartphone company so they can sit on it.
That's always the thing innit? If these devices were so miraculous and actually worked they wouldn't need to hype them up - Apple or Samsung would make the makers rich and sell the tech themselves.
Yes and Apple is guilty of that on it laptops. The 8gb of ram models are built for that. Also they have a design for when the soldered SSD chips die to fry the board. A channel could Louis Rossman has several videos on it.
It's been a thing for much, much longer than silicon valley. The term itself was coined in the great depression, and one of the best known earlier examples was an agreement between light bulb manufacturers to artificially reduce their lifespans. There's a documentary about it called "the light bulb conspiracy" if anyone's interested. You might also remember Willy's fridge's appetite for fan belts in Death of a Salesman. Really you'd think that not long after people first paid each other to make things, some wise so-and-so would have worked out that it's best not to have the things they make last too long so that they get more repeat business. The basic practice probably stretches back into the earliest bartering systems.
@@inventiveusername5191 The light bulb thing's not really a conspiracy though. The longer a light bulb is designed to last, the less efficient it becomes in terms of lumens per watt, so the lifespan they decided on is just a compromise based on this. Beyond a certain point, the extra electricity used for the same light output would cost more than just replacing the bulbs, because bulbs are cheap.
The qcpro websites for other countries are probably done that way because of better consumer protection laws about false / misleading advertising than the US.
Wait, they used an actual human voice instead of a terrible text-to-speech voice in their ad? They were working with a big budget! Must be totally legit. I’ll take a dozen!
Bro that’s what I’m saying. Like if a typical scam ad is a 0 and a Nike or Apple is 100 they’re a solid like 30. Scored some points probably would be able to scam my mom.
Holy Molly, I have a couple of them, bought for $3 each. This model is pretty common on Aliexpress, fits fine for parallel charging of small electronic things like smartwatches. Fast Charge port is dangerous, though, makes this brick extremely hot.
I accidentally bought a knockoff quick charger for my phone once. Noticed it making weird sounds, then realized the brick was burning hot and yanked it out of the wall. That's how I almost started a fire in my first year of college lol
@@echo_soldierin a bind, I bought a car charger for my iPhone at the groceries store on two different occasions and they started smoking. They were just 12v to 5v regulators, so they were dissipating about 20 watts in a 5 watt device
Dont worry, the Ugreen chargers are as bad. You know, the ones this guy advertises. The seller replaced it 2x before i wanted the money back, just a piece of crap. The difference... this "scammers" charger costs much less than the Ugreen trash product
Huh a UA-cam ad being a SCAM? Never woulda Thought that was possible. If youtube wants people to watch ADS they need to police them for scams. Also was that like 32 power bricks plugged into a MEGA splitter
Ya. Really low and deceitful of ComputerClan to do this. Cherry-pick some reseller's ridiculous video in an attempt to tarnish a fine working product so that more people buy the product/s in CC's affiliate links in order for him to make even more money off people...I guess all the money he makes from his millions & millions of views isn't enough for him. Talk about shameful.
lmao I run sponsorblock I never knew there was a promospam in this video, until the very end when he did the product placement but that qualifies as part of video.
@@harrison00xXxtheir cables are quite good, I've use them a lot since they're the most available where I live that aren't generic low-quality cables. Haven't tried their chargers though.
3:32 I think this is true with ios, I cannot use my ipad mini anymore because apps need certain version of ios to load. and my ipad mini reached the maximum update and cannot go further.
I actually remember seeing this ad (the one where some guy was raising the peace sign) and I immediately knew it was a scam. Especially when it said "it will charge from 0 to 100% in 5 seconds". My BS sensor was going haywire.
It's important to note that this device isn't even a charger at all, it's just an AC to DC wall wart that just happens to use USB-A ports instead of a barrel jack or some other proprietary port. The actual "charger" on every phone is in the phone itself, which takes the 5V USB power input and manages the battery charging (often called a BMS, or battery management system).
"AC to DC wall wart that just happens to use USB-A " So to simplify it more for the average (not that clever) user here: Its basically just a POWER SUPPLY, also called "PSU".
and the way the phones decide how much to pull current from them when they're in 5 volt mode is quite simple: if the voltage dips to under 4.95, they lower the current they draw. this has led to manufacturers setting the voltage 5.1-5.2 on the chargers so if there's drop from cable or connector, it would still stay over that 4.95 at the phones end. if a psu can give 100000000 amps it doesn't matter if it's set at 5 volt and the cable and 2 connectors drop it 0.05..
@@lasskinn474 you are talking now about a phones charging limits, meanwhile a lot of people charge with charger limits when using 5, 10 and 15-20W power supplies. Also something interesting to mention: My iPhone and iPad are charging in 9V mode (if possible) and when fully charged they go into 5V mode. Most modern devices run of 9V+ while charging, including more headroom regarding to voltage drop.
@@harrison00xXx yes if they're using some qc3.0 or whatever standard they up the voltage(and if the datalines on the cable aren't missing or broken) couple of years ago there were a bunch of pirate samsung quick chargers that outputted 9v only all the time ahaha.
@@lasskinn474 well i dont mind this QC3.0 nonsense since im mainly an apple user, yet a QC3.0 (20W) samsung psu gives my iPhone 15 optimal 9W (9V, 1A), „fast“ and healthy
Scarcity tactics in ads always make me think of that clip from The Simpsons where Homer wants to buy Bart that radio microphone for his birthday and the ad says Supply is limited.
The scammers were only more honest on the main sales page because they’re using someone like Coecpart to host it, and they wouldn’t allow the product if it was completely fraudulent.
The MT6705 is actually a synchronous rectifier, which is sometimes used in place of a high speed diode as to increase efficiency/lower heat losses. The 5413D is likely the chip that negotiates the voltage output with the plugged in device.
Being a retired professor of accountancy and taxation I had to laugh at that misspelling. Most of these scams come from China or Vietnam so their English skills are usually less than ideal.
This is why I still use an old Canon printer from 1998. And it's literally the same printer I have only ever had to replace a belt once and it takes a refilled cartridge whenever you want. Hint: It was one of the models that is considered portable and it is very small but still functions like a full size printer. Canon makes good printers; at least in my experience.
9:50 I have to call you out on the dual monitor statement. apple does not support dual monitors off the same adapter/thunderbolt port. if you connect two monitors to that adapter, they will be mirrors of each other.
Apple supports multiple monitors through single Thunderbolt connection, as multiple DisplayPort connections can be tunnelled through a single Thunderbolt connection. What they don't support are multiple monitors over a single DisplayPort connection, as Mac OS lacks support for DisplayPort Multi Stream, which lets you daisy chain DisplayPort monitors or use a docking station with a DisplayPort Multi Stream hub (MST). Windows and Linux both support DisplayPort MST.
3:50 You can even see that the power strip where the charger is plugged into isn´t even turned on. I love these obviously false things in those fake ads.
I had like 4 of these that I got off Amazon for $5 each. Used them to power some USB grow lights. Ill give them props for being pretty durable as they were most certainly abused and provided power until I switched to a better setup that didn't involve overheating USB chargers.
Most of these people in the videos are gig workers on app platforms like Fiver, and Fiver needs to update their terms of service to ban users from making such content.
Trying to charge your phone that fast is a great way to produce the magic smoke. Not from the battery, from the charging circuitry getting nice and crispy from the heat.
It's just a plain USB power supply. It won't hurt your device, but it won't do anything special either. It does not support any fast charging except Qualcomm QC2/3, which are neither particularly fast, nor is it supported by most phones.
am i the only one wo thinks if the device really could charge the phone in seconds (which it cant because the phone partly controls the input power) it would just instantly explode ?
Why with UGreen? They are legit company and I uses their products quite a lot from charging cables to internet adapter. I just something that I can afford tho like that charger adapter can cause RM100+ which way too expensive for my budget.
You know Ugreen just puts their logo on unbranded stuff? For everything ugreen sells, you can find the exact same product without their logo on it, for much less money.@@FinnManusia
Usually when you get something like that it is actually 16GB and has software on it to make it look like it has the 16TB capacity, erasing old files automatically to make room for the new once you get to the actual 16GB capacity.
I love how people think changing a charger suddenly makes your phone support higher level charging. My 8T does 65watt and OP11 does 100watt, this actually does 100% in about 35 minutes.
There's a common belief that scams like this deliberately make stupid, exaggerated claims as a way to weed out smart people and only sucker in dumb people who don't know how technology works. The UA-camr kitboga (the guy who does the scam phone calls) points this out with the various "tech support scams" he annoys.
I love how people think 65W or 100W charging makes sense in a phone or is any good. You may get the first minutes fast charging, but then its as slow as any other phone I charge my iPhone with 10W from 10% to 80% in less than an hour, if i really need it quick i use the 20W adapter and its from 20-80% within 20-30 Minutes as well.
I must take issue with your exposé. I have been using a quick charge pro 3.0 for a couple of years now and it charges all of my equipment very nicely. It also gives me the ability to leap tall buildings with a single bound and run faster than a speeding bullet.
I got a Samsung galaxy S 7 when they where new and used that thing for 9 years!!! Eventually got stolen and I had to upgrade! I don’t understand the whole fad of upgrading every year or 2 honestly
I upgraded my Oneplus 7 to used 7T this year after I shattered the display because it turned out to be the best price to performance model on used market. Though I'm thinking about Sony Xperia 1 line, they are neat, maybe when mk IV will get cheaper on used market...
These are just literally repackaged Aliexpress chargers. I found them for sale on there for like $3. They seem to be rated very well for a simple phone charger as it is sold on AE.
$1800 every year?!? I bought a Note 10+ for $350, used it for 3 years, then when I accidentally smashed it I bought another one for $315 and have had that 2 years.
Yeah, similar here. I buy a new smartphone every 4-5 years. I have spent $1k on some of them but that's nothing over many years. If people are truly spending thousands of dollars a year on smartphones, they have bigger issues they need to deal with.
my current phone is an xperia xz1c that I got used in very good shape for around $350 a couple years ago...I'll probably continue using it for at least another couple years without issue (small phone ftw) edit: three years prior I got an og pixel 5" for $800, and 3 years before that I got the og moto x for $420 (which I would have used longer if I could have found a quality replacement battery) the pixel is still technically usable but I wanted a smaller phone and better overall battery life even on a fresh battery. also apps kept occasionally updating on the pixel even though I disabled all auto-updates which was very frustrating
@@TheJunky228 i even still have a Pixel 3a end of October 2019 and it still running things like Animal Crossing and PokemonGo as "heavy" hitters totally fine and only now the battery get's noticeble "not longer that good" and the Charging needing a bit "suggestion" soooo i might look out for a new one ... next year? Maybe October again? somewhat quite far off from the scammers claims
I always assumed ads not mentioning the name of the product, especially when it's a cheap scam, is so the ads can be repurposed when they're forced to abandon the previous branding.
Maybe Big Clive will jump in and comment, but it looks from 21:42 that there is pretty much zero separation mains voltage and low voltage sides of the board, and therefore there is a very great risk of electrocution and fire. I think the blue thing next to the "Optocoupler TWS 817 C247" is the Class Y capacitor, and you want to look at the separation on the board between those two pins. Looking at 22:36, I think the Class Y is at the top of the image, and the separation there looks fine, but down at the other end of the board, that separation narrows down to what looks like less than 1mm
I don't believe that is a problem here. The orientation of the bridge rectifier is so that the AC side is kept to the left and the output is to the right. Which combined with some basic filtering creates a steady voltage at the RMS value of the AC input (so actual 120V peak DC instead of 170V peak AC of US mains). Combined with how you need a higher DC potential to get sparking behaviour, the isolation requirement significantly reduces and i believe the smallest observable gap (At the output of the rectifier) falls within that tolerance. This is a fairly common approach in (compact) wall wart designs.
Can't wait to see a scam product with a "As seen on Computer Clans UA-cam Channel" sticker. I have a Motorola phone with a "fast charge" option, but instead of it taking an hour and a half to charge, it charges from 16% in about 35 minutes give or take.
The irony is if you get one of these scam chargers your phone battery might degrade faster because it’s not getting the right power. Get a decent charger made of good components and your battery will last 3-4 years no problem
Its hard to determine from here, but it looks like there is not enough isolation between HV and LV side of the charger. Its probably quite unsafe to even use..
The "supervisor" IC is most likely a MOSFET. These cheap chargers are bad enough. The PCB is missing a lot of safety features to prevent mains power from getting over to the USB ports.
The PCB doesn't look at all like the one from a reputable charger from say Apple or Samsung. There are no cutouts and the isolation distances over the PCB look iffy. Didn't really have a good look at the board but just eyeballing a few stills, it doesn't look very high quality at all.
@@wombatillo Diodegonewild on UA-cam sometimes tears apart chargers to see how safe they are and i bet when he sees this charger his conclusion will be: 'ultra dodgy'
Genuinely, I wonder who most of Ken's audience actually is. I feel like 90% of the stuff Ken is talking about is basically general knowledge as long as you have at least a high school education or even decent street smarts. Are senior citizens or 8-year-olds watching this at home going, "Whoa! these guys would have totally fooled me! Thanks, KEN!"
@@johnjingleheimersmith9259 I think you're giving *entirely* too much credit to the average user's tech literacy. When I worked at a small MSP (our services ran the gamut but we mostly did enterprise networking), a shocking number of our university-educated clients - the majority of whom were attorneys - were of the "conpyewders r hard", Fruit™Brand-devotee mindset, and were far from immune to scams / ripoffs. These weren't solely oblivious 60-somethings on the cusp of retirement; many were fresh out of college, and irrespective of age, attained education, or industry, gullibility and a borderline terminal incuriosity about the world and the technology in it were more or less the norm.
This is somehow more absurd than it used to be. Planned obsolescence is real, in some senses, but it isn't as front and center as people may think. Intel designing a new socket with just one more pin, or locking CPUs to certain chipsets despite having the same socket and skilled coders proving that they can support older CPUs and Intel just decided to lock them, for example. These people want you to believe that your phone slowing down is only ever due to this rather than just software getting more advanced, more complex, and harder to run as a consequence(with a healthy helping of developer laziness deciding not to spend more time optimizing just because modern hardware can handle a little spaghetti here and there). Not even getting started on the fact that batteries are effectively sustained and reversible chemical reactions that will inevitably have inert side-products build up over time. And if you replace your 1200 phone once a year you're doing something wrong, I've seen $300 models last three times as long!
Yup. I remember way back in the early 90s, people thinking that video game companies were scamming them by releasing the Sega Genesis or Super Nintendo. When it was just technology rapidly advancing. It's like saying a car company is "scamming" you because they have an improved 2024 model compared to your 1990 model.
That figure is just the average of what people spend per year on 2 year contract for the latest galaxy ultra or iphone, no one is buying the newest phone every year up front.
@@drygnfyre Yep, though to be fair, if K recall correctly, the model year system is kind of a planned obsolescence model. The whole reason it was introduced was a way of encouraging those that simply must have the newest model of everything to keep returning for the newest model, holding back technology and style changes and advancements on purpose to make the next model year more desirable than the current one. Doesn't mean the improvements themselves are a scam, but cars really don't need to be released yearly but they are to exploit some peoples' need to have the newest of everything. One of the reasons I say planned obsolescence is real, but not as obvious as many people think it is. After all, if products just simply failed out of nowhere the way people think planned obsolescence works, people wouldn't buy those products anymore because that's a bad experience. Planned obsolescence is just that, obsolescence. If you want that shiny new feature that your old device could easily use, oh well you'd better buy the new one. Your motherboard could use the newest CPU but we won't support it so that you're forced to buy another new motherboard. Oh this new part in this new model year can fit in your vehicle but we still won't sell it to you - you'll have to buy the new model year for that. Your device's component stopped working? It's a pity we started soldering that component directly to the board, you'll have to buy a new one since you can't repair it now. Etc and so forth.
@@talibong9518 I say this having talked to people actually genuinely complaining they had to spend $1200 a year on a replacement phone. Some people people absolutely do buy these phones outright yearly.
You know what’s funny about the first ad? They’re using half of the claims from the BoltzPro scam. These scammers aren’t even trying anymore. It’s almost as if they know they’re ripping people off with their bullshit. So they can’t even come up with a new backstory. That’s just sad
From the engineering perspective, the claim of that ad campaign is a complete bs! It breaks the laws of physics. 🤣🤣 At 2:34, you can see something like *“Algorithmic Lithium Induction”* which she made up completely outta her a$$! There's no such term like that in chemical engineering! People in general might get convinced after seeing those big words! 😂😂
I keep wanting to have a go at building a phone charger that could work off of a railway overhead traction supply (25kV, ca. 5MW) and if built that would potentially be the fastest phone charger in history! 🚄⚡📲😁 The practical problems of course would be the ground return, the fact you'd have to be HV trained in order to use it, and the fact most of us don't have a convenient 25kV railway traction supply in our homes. 😉 And at the end of the day; If my phone will only accept charge current at up to 5W, 5MW availability isn't going to make it charge any faster. I could try _forcing_ a higher level of current into the phone of course, but the end result won't be a faster charging phone...Or a usable phone, for that matter! 📱💥🙃
@@fennecfoxfanatic Probably put a sticker on it that says _„Made in Britain“._ 🙃 That won't prevent anything from exploding of course...But if _The IT Crowd_ teaches us anything, it is that phrase is an internationally understood warning about the possibility... 🧯🇬🇧🔥😉
That mass connected to a spring and damper started giving me flashbacks to system dynamics. Funnily enough the board looks exactly like the kind of BS I'd have written trying to get partial credit on an exam question lmao. I have gladly not had to think about that class for a few years so I'm a little rusty, but I am still able to confidently say that newtonian gravity never came up when deriving the diff eqs for a mass/spring/damper system. I'm just impressed by the complete lack of effort they put into this scam. You have to be a special kind of lazy to use a MSD problem entirely unrelated to electronics when probably 1/3 to 1/2 of system dynamics is calculating the responses of resistor/capacitor/inductor circuits (at least for the ME course at my school) lmao
12:06 The more a battery is charged, the more power you need to charge it. So, the Amps are increasing through the charge. Then the charger will go into trickling mode, which consumes much less. So, it's more of a ramp followed by a cliff. Maybe companies misdescribe it to make people feel good. It's possible I misunderstood the explanation in the video. Source: Electro-mecanics studies, followed by industrial computing.
I believe that's why the fast/quick charge new phones come with usually say will charge from 0-50% in X amount of minutes, after that charging does start to slow down... I'm not aure if it's a "cliff" or more gradual a slowdown after that (it maybe a steep drop followed by a more gradual decline). That will largely depend on the phones charging software
I have a charger that looks like this. I bought it for cheap cause I forgot my charger at home. That's like 7 dollars. Scammers will never stop if quick money is made.
My dad's friends are buying "power savers" to plug into outlets nearest the breaker boxes, since electrical companies are continually producing frequency spikes to increase everyone's electrical wastage and bills--scams!
Other countries have better and more strict false advertising laws. Unlike the US which has very weak customer protections laws. With all the bills and laws they’ve been passing in the past decade it’s basically 100% legal to lie and false advertise to anyone in the US as long as said lie doesn’t cause health problems. God bless capitalism. 💰
The US actually has pretty strict false advertising laws, but these companies that sell these are not based in the US, and they are fly by night operations that pop up and disappear forever in months, to pop up under a different name, so they are effectively untouchable and don’t care.
Oh funny, i bought 2 off these from China. I just searched for cheap 4xUSB chargers. Did not see any of the ridicules clames, and did not need any quick charges. So i am still happy with my 4x1.5Amp chargers, even though of course nothing oft the QC3.0 oder "3Amp" stuff did work. But for the price i payed (a few Bucks/Euro), im am satified... cheap crap, but does basic charging...
The crazy thing about their quick charge claims being so revolutionary is that my phone came with a 120w charger that can take my phone from 0-100 in about 40 minutes safely, and it would still be holdable. I got this charger completely free. If I were to plug a different phone in, it would straight up say no and not charge.
I'd imagine it would charge. These things, they, talk to each other, handshake, how much can you take, OK, I'll give you that... Some are smarter than I am...
The funny thing is I bought the same charger in the video (with full knowledge it's not at all a fast charger) from a local e-commerce platform and it costed me less than 3 MYR, equivalent to like, 0.60 USD. And they're selling it for 37 USD... 😵
8:05 you can tell this is a video playing on the phone because it goes from the boot screen straight to the Home Screen, where it would normally prompt for passcode on restart.
Hold up, these chargers are available on my local online classifieds for like 5 bucks (I live in Asia). They're pretty popular and are a decent multi-USB solution. I had no idea these were being upsold with wild conspiracy theories over there
My parents will defend any scam they buy possible. A salesman talked them into a $110 apple charger to make their iPhones battery “last longer.” They also bought a a usb strip that they believed the claims that it fully charged batteries. These scammers will always exist as long as stupid people do, and if that’s all it takes to make ridiculous ‘scams,’ then are they really scams? I think it’s genius.
If they could indeed charge any phone so fast, if anything it would be extremely damaging to the battery. There is a good reason why companies don't just pump 200+Watts into their flagship phones. That would be a crazy advertisement point for their flagships and yet nobody does that
I have an iPhone XR battery is around 80%use left. Would it be worth putting a new battery in it at a phone repair shop. After the last update to 17.6 something it went down from 96% to 85% in a month of use. Will the new battery face the same issues? I love my XR and don’t want a new phone if I can just rebattery it and be in good shape for a few more years? Thank you, hope you can answer this question for me !
The claim that "Big tech companies are gathering to sue them" is a simple lie to make you feel like you better get yours now before its too late. Absolute manipulative B.S.
Fun fact: If your phone is rated for 20w, and you use 65w charger, your phone still only pulls 20w. It won't magically pull more power even though you use 65w.
5:00 -> It is not possible to patent a thing after it has been shown to the world (prior art) - nobody can retroactively patent something that is 'out there' and stop other people using it.
I have always used the lowest mAh rated chargers. Less current = longer charging = less wear on the battery = longer life. Not sure if it falls in Ohm's law. However, charging has to be more (I/V) than the battery. Hence why most chargers are 5V for a 3.7V battery. The lower the current the better. Same principle as a trickle charge for a car battery.
No it's 5 volts because it's USB, which is 5 volts because that was the standard voltage of digital logic for several decades previously and provides plenty of voltage to feed 3.3 volt logic with a step down regulator.
@@TimothyEBaldwin My point was it takes more V A than the battery has to charge. A 5V charger will charge a 5V battery as long as the charger has more amps than the battery ampere output.
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when it was cold i was seeing heating scams out the wazoo
I've been seeing a lot of ads for a "bulletproof vest" that is made of neoprene. Nothing screams safety about a BF vest than a YT ad that 100% text-to-speech, AI generated, and full from stolen video footage and grammatical errors.
Maybe he should test one. 😉
Money back guarantee if it fails you, you can't lose !
About as real as cash being given out by the government or a one square foot solar panel powering your whole house. All bullshit garbage ads. And UA-cam allows it all, UNLESS you fork out cash to go "ad free" fake garbage horse shit ads or extortion to avoid them.
Ah, yes. The same material used for waterproof car seat covers and diving wetsuits can easily stop projectiles from a pew-pew.
"Everybody knows" neoprene is sunlight-resistant, heat-resistant, chlorine-resistant, fingernail-resistant, and easily withstands contact from sharp rocks. (By the way, neoprene is NONE of the above. I have zero experience with neoprene, but I DO have access to Google.) 😆
I will assume there's slightly better results than a vest made out of used greasy pizza boxes, but neither will be particularly effective, and neither would I wager my life on.
I don't care who is selling a product, if I hear text to speech I immediately think scam.
They don't use the brand name in the video so they can reuse the ad every time they rebrand to avoid bad publicity.
That giant charger with 100 lightning cables attached to each other is a real youtube video and that ad is stealing footage from it
I think it was from TechRax. They definitely stole from him.
@@gamersinghking4167 It was.
And this comment has 100 like
What happened in the video? I can't imagine what they were trying to prove with something that ridiculous.
Techrax, right?
These scams go so far back, I remember as a kid 30 years ago seeing a late night TV ad about some device that would improve your car's performance and 3x your fuel mileage or something similar. It's always "these evil companies are trying to stop this groundbreaking invention because they have a financial interest in the status quo." The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Sounds like the magnet that attaches to the fuel line gimmick, or maybe the water injector gizmo that attaches to the air intake. It's amazing people still fall for this nonsense today. 30 years ago it was impossible to research any of the claims, today it's easy.
Me too, ironically those scams usually came from "as seen on TV" commercials.
An adaptor that can make your home electric bill far cheaper, a cigarette lighter plug that can make your car saves fuel or perform better, etc.
Fuel shark eh? And also the obd2 fuel saver dongle
@@timezonewall Water Injection (and water methanol injection [WMI]) actually works. *However,* it won't add any power or reduce fuel usage *at all* if you don't also tune the engine to take advantage of the extra cooling in the combustion chambers. There are videos on this.
@@101Volts Makes sense. Modus operandi of these scams is to repeat things that people may have a vague recollection of hearing about in other, usually more reputable, contexts but not really remember well or fully understand the details of.
Such as 'carbon nanotubes' and 'Artificial Intelligence' in the example of the video. See also, 'Quantum', and 'Blockchain', both of which are real things with real (or at least potentially real) uses but have been conceptually abused to the same extent as words like 'natural' and 'organic' in the food industry.
Great video! I love your scam busting!
Thank you!
I'm not paying the troll toll, thanks!@@Spinelli__
@@Spinelli__ he's talking about a specific charger, being sold by a company for three times the price; i guess the only scammy part is the ads themselves claiming things that are objectively false to make you buy it. if you do not consider it a scam, it is definitely a ripoff considering the identical alternatives. i doubt there is some conspiracy going on here; yes, the product works, but the claims the people (or person) selling it make are false.
it also appears that the selling website isn't even operational anymore, since in the video, he does show an error message when attempting to visit the official webpage. you are trying to advocate for sellers, who have made false claims in the past, which don't even exist anymore!
@Spinelli__ lmao the claims from the ads are a scam this is factual. You must be selling them smooth brain.
@@sjebsstuff1354 These chargers are very common on the net all over big sites like Amz and AlX. Some reseller made a ridiculous video about quantum A.I. and stuff like that. Of course whichever reseller made that video is dishonest but the product itself is a great, inexpensive (like $8-$10 USD) charger. I'm not advocating for some random reseller who made a ridiculous video. I'm advocating for a great product itself that: A. can be bought from tons of other resellers without all those ridiculous claims, B. CC is trying to tarnish, C. CC is trying get people not to buy and therefore potentially profit from more sales from his affiliated & competing product instead.
It's not difficult to understand if some simple common sense and logic is used.
"programmed extinction" sounds like a bad google translate copy-paste of planned obsolescence
We all know that some guy invented a carburetor for automobiles that gets 100 mi per gallon, andvgeneral motors pause the pageant so that it would never be produced. This was about the same time that general motors used national city lines to shut down the streetcar business.
It also sounds like a 80's scifi term used for a failsafe gene sliced into whatever monster the scifi scientist make.
@@ArtStoneUS Well yeah, just like how a guy invented a car that ran on water but Ford bought it out to hide the technology.
Edit: That really is something I remember hearing more than one person claim in the 1990s. Including the metal shop teacher at my school...
@@ArtStoneUS And the old favourite the Wankel rotary engine.
In reality, while providing a much more efficient fuel-power conversion on a test-bench, it had some serious issues when actually hooked up to a drive train with any load on it.... It's only in the last two years that these issues may be showing signs of being solved, so it may yet be practical, but the only 'conspiracy' was the reality of physics. But that isn't sexy.
Oh no!, programmed extinction killed my pet dinosaur.
Oh no, Old Man Ken forgot you only need 1.21 gigawatts for a flux capacitor.
Bear in mind: He might've been adjusting for inflation. 📈🎈😋
Not the Libyans!!!!
*jiggawatts, totally different :)
no need. the flux is in the cloud for access now. sign up for $12,99 per month.
In fact, to charge 4 phones in 4 minutes the device needs to deliver around 600 Watts.
Regarding patents - if you are shipping a product then if someone files a patent then their patent will be invalid as your product would be classed as prior art
"Nanotechnology"
They aren't even TRYING anymore! 🤣
Iron Man Mark 85 ex-machina
Nanomachines, son!
@@VitalVampyr We can make machine components in microscopic size (CPU transistors), but making an entire machine imin the size of a cell is still very much science fiction lol
No they are not lol
@@KaneLivesInDeath Researchers have actually made some basic nanomachines like DNA walkers and microswimmers. Practical uses are mostly theoretical at this point though.
Remember that broadly defined something as simple as an axe or a wheel is a machine.
"Programmed extinction" is the funniest misstranslation
I think the myth about lithium battery "healing" is born from the real ability to "regenerate" car lead acid batteries.
some people claim dead, and i mean really dead, drill batteries can be revived to a working state with a spot welder. Just pump enough amps into it and it apparently works again.
@@ZyghqwyvThere’s a seed of truth to that. Often enough, lead acid batts can be brought back to a working state for a short while, but it’s very much a short stopgap solution.
@@reaperreaper5098 I agree. I haven't actually tried to do more than refill the cells in the auto battery with battery acid and since most are sealed now I haven't even done that in ages. Nowadays you have to watch for the battery case cracking, I replaced a battery last fall in my van after it wouldn't hold a charge and when we took it out it was cracked and leaking.
These companies rely on the elderly who do not understand how electronic devices work.
My NOCO chargers have a setting for restoring and it is something around the lines of breaking up the sulphate coating on the lead electrodes.
I buy these chargers off Aliexpress for $1.99. They're can charge a single device at maybe 18 watts and it goes down as you plug in more devices. The total output for everything is 65 watts.
Anything 20W or higher is fast charging. I remember when the chargers were 5W at 800 mA and before that 500 mA. It was a big improvement to get a brick that was 1-1.2 A. I spent $6.99 for my car charger with 2 ports, one being 18W and it works excellent
mine uses max 8W charging small bike lights. didn't expect more, doesn't need more
People need to think. Planned obsolescence is a thing... not in the sense the scammers are using, but in the sense that devices are made to be difficult to repair when something breaks to make you buy a new one... but if someone really DID come up with a miraculous device to "undo" it, they'd make far more money selling the patent to a smartphone company so they can sit on it.
That's always the thing innit? If these devices were so miraculous and actually worked they wouldn't need to hype them up - Apple or Samsung would make the makers rich and sell the tech themselves.
Yes and Apple is guilty of that on it laptops. The 8gb of ram models are built for that. Also they have a design for when the soldered SSD chips die to fry the board. A channel could Louis Rossman has several videos on it.
It's been a thing for much, much longer than silicon valley. The term itself was coined in the great depression, and one of the best known earlier examples was an agreement between light bulb manufacturers to artificially reduce their lifespans. There's a documentary about it called "the light bulb conspiracy" if anyone's interested. You might also remember Willy's fridge's appetite for fan belts in Death of a Salesman.
Really you'd think that not long after people first paid each other to make things, some wise so-and-so would have worked out that it's best not to have the things they make last too long so that they get more repeat business. The basic practice probably stretches back into the earliest bartering systems.
@@MrMegaManFan Also if this was even possible, apple and samsung's researchers would be the ones to find it first. It's their whole job.
@@inventiveusername5191 The light bulb thing's not really a conspiracy though. The longer a light bulb is designed to last, the less efficient it becomes in terms of lumens per watt, so the lifespan they decided on is just a compromise based on this. Beyond a certain point, the extra electricity used for the same light output would cost more than just replacing the bulbs, because bulbs are cheap.
The qcpro websites for other countries are probably done that way because of better consumer protection laws about false / misleading advertising than the US.
Wait, they used an actual human voice instead of a terrible text-to-speech voice in their ad? They were working with a big budget! Must be totally legit. I’ll take a dozen!
Bro that’s what I’m saying. Like if a typical scam ad is a 0 and a Nike or Apple is 100 they’re a solid like 30. Scored some points probably would be able to scam my mom.
That guy they hired on fiver to read the script was a good investment!
Actually I think it’s Just ai still. AI is crazy that it can create a person and read a script in a natural voice.
“Programmed extinction’
… so we have confirmed the hackers have access to a thesaurus
I mean, it does manage to sound kinda cool
Holy Molly, I have a couple of them, bought for $3 each. This model is pretty common on Aliexpress, fits fine for parallel charging of small electronic things like smartwatches.
Fast Charge port is dangerous, though, makes this brick extremely hot.
I accidentally bought a knockoff quick charger for my phone once. Noticed it making weird sounds, then realized the brick was burning hot and yanked it out of the wall. That's how I almost started a fire in my first year of college lol
@@echo_soldierI've had two explode while plugged in.
@@echo_soldierin a bind, I bought a car charger for my iPhone at the groceries store on two different occasions and they started smoking. They were just 12v to 5v regulators, so they were dissipating about 20 watts in a 5 watt device
I have some that look like this that I bought on AE for about $3 too. It's nothing special.
Dont worry, the Ugreen chargers are as bad. You know, the ones this guy advertises. The seller replaced it 2x before i wanted the money back, just a piece of crap. The difference... this "scammers" charger costs much less than the Ugreen trash product
Huh a UA-cam ad being a SCAM? Never woulda Thought that was possible. If youtube wants people to watch ADS they need to police them for scams.
Also was that like 32 power bricks plugged into a MEGA splitter
Exactly. If UA-cam wants me to not use an ad blocker, they need to stop showing me what are obviously scams or religious nonsense.
UGreen : can we sponsor you
ken : sure let me dig an old scam
LOL
Ya. Really low and deceitful of ComputerClan to do this. Cherry-pick some reseller's ridiculous video in an attempt to tarnish a fine working product so that more people buy the product/s in CC's affiliate links in order for him to make even more money off people...I guess all the money he makes from his millions & millions of views isn't enough for him. Talk about shameful.
lmao I run sponsorblock I never knew there was a promospam in this video, until the very end when he did the product placement but that qualifies as part of video.
Lol yeah this video is pointless, peak UA-camr shit.
Funny thing is... Ugreen isnt much better. Nearly all of their products suck hard
@@harrison00xXxtheir cables are quite good, I've use them a lot since they're the most available where I live that aren't generic low-quality cables. Haven't tried their chargers though.
3:32 I think this is true with ios, I cannot use my ipad mini anymore because apps need certain version of ios to load. and my ipad mini reached the maximum update and cannot go further.
I actually remember seeing this ad (the one where some guy was raising the peace sign) and I immediately knew it was a scam. Especially when it said "it will charge from 0 to 100% in 5 seconds". My BS sensor was going haywire.
While you were going there, plenty were reaching for their phone to order it. Most of my family members fall for these sorts of scams.
Videos: "It'll recharge in 5 seconds."
Also the same videos: "It'll recharge completely in 15 minutes."
😂 this is the most elaborately described phone charger of all time.
Excellent work, as always, Mr Ken 👏🏼
It's important to note that this device isn't even a charger at all, it's just an AC to DC wall wart that just happens to use USB-A ports instead of a barrel jack or some other proprietary port. The actual "charger" on every phone is in the phone itself, which takes the 5V USB power input and manages the battery charging (often called a BMS, or battery management system).
"AC to DC wall wart that just happens to use USB-A "
So to simplify it more for the average (not that clever) user here: Its basically just a POWER SUPPLY, also called "PSU".
and the way the phones decide how much to pull current from them when they're in 5 volt mode is quite simple: if the voltage dips to under 4.95, they lower the current they draw.
this has led to manufacturers setting the voltage 5.1-5.2 on the chargers so if there's drop from cable or connector, it would still stay over that 4.95 at the phones end. if a psu can give 100000000 amps it doesn't matter if it's set at 5 volt and the cable and 2 connectors drop it 0.05..
@@lasskinn474 you are talking now about a phones charging limits, meanwhile a lot of people charge with charger limits when using 5, 10 and 15-20W power supplies.
Also something interesting to mention: My iPhone and iPad are charging in 9V mode (if possible) and when fully charged they go into 5V mode. Most modern devices run of 9V+ while charging, including more headroom regarding to voltage drop.
@@harrison00xXx yes if they're using some qc3.0 or whatever standard they up the voltage(and if the datalines on the cable aren't missing or broken)
couple of years ago there were a bunch of pirate samsung quick chargers that outputted 9v only all the time ahaha.
@@lasskinn474 well i dont mind this QC3.0 nonsense since im mainly an apple user, yet a QC3.0 (20W) samsung psu gives my iPhone 15 optimal 9W (9V, 1A), „fast“ and healthy
Scarcity tactics in ads always make me think of that clip from The Simpsons where Homer wants to buy Bart that radio microphone for his birthday and the ad says Supply is limited.
the second ad at 3:04 actually uses a clip from a UA-camr techrax's video What Happens If You Plug 100 Chargers in an iPhone? Instant Charge!?
Yes i noticed that too! Was trying to remember the name
I recently saw an ad for some bs product, I can't remember what, but theg also used the claim " reverse planned obsolescence".
The scammers were only more honest on the main sales page because they’re using someone like Coecpart to host it, and they wouldn’t allow the product if it was completely fraudulent.
it's a way to make people refund less.
The MT6705 is actually a synchronous rectifier, which is sometimes used in place of a high speed diode as to increase efficiency/lower heat losses. The 5413D is likely the chip that negotiates the voltage output with the plugged in device.
I gasped a little in shock when I saw that typo error in one of the ads… “Professor” is written as “proffesor,” apparently.
4:02 They say professor and proffesor on the same page lmfao
They make these mistakes on purpose. It's self selecting.
Being a retired professor of accountancy and taxation I had to laugh at that misspelling. Most of these scams come from China or Vietnam so their English skills are usually less than ideal.
This is why I still use an old Canon printer from 1998. And it's literally the same printer I have only ever had to replace a belt once and it takes a refilled cartridge whenever you want. Hint: It was one of the models that is considered portable and it is very small but still functions like a full size printer. Canon makes good printers; at least in my experience.
9:50 I have to call you out on the dual monitor statement.
apple does not support dual monitors off the same adapter/thunderbolt port.
if you connect two monitors to that adapter, they will be mirrors of each other.
It can but needs to be on different channels. I have used dual monitor on my Lenovo dock with 4 ports, which are ran in 2 pairs of 2
Apple supports multiple monitors through single Thunderbolt connection, as multiple DisplayPort connections can be tunnelled through a single Thunderbolt connection. What they don't support are multiple monitors over a single DisplayPort connection, as Mac OS lacks support for DisplayPort Multi Stream, which lets you daisy chain DisplayPort monitors or use a docking station with a DisplayPort Multi Stream hub (MST). Windows and Linux both support DisplayPort MST.
I have two 4k monitors attached to a single Thunderbolt port on my Macbook via my Caldigit Thunderbolt dock and they show separate displays.
The product listing does mention that dual displays is only on windows
But yeah using a Mac in that shot may have confused people
Thats not the real issue - those HDMI ports DONT SUPPORT (!!!!!) HDCP, good luck with netflix or a blu ray on a external screen using this adapter
3:50 You can even see that the power strip where the charger is plugged into isn´t even turned on. I love these obviously false things in those fake ads.
I had like 4 of these that I got off Amazon for $5 each. Used them to power some USB grow lights. Ill give them props for being pretty durable as they were most certainly abused and provided power until I switched to a better setup that didn't involve overheating USB chargers.
USB for growlights? Boy, what a change from the 1000w metal halides I used to use
grow lights and USB power supplies sounds wrong. 2x600W sodium lamps for heat and 4x 500W LEDs with limited spectrum for giving more light.
maybe he's growing weed for ants!
Maybe he’s growing prayer plants
@@Redspeciality There are LEDs now which can be used to grow plants.
Most of these people in the videos are gig workers on app platforms like Fiver, and Fiver needs to update their terms of service to ban users from making such content.
The most recent phone I bought came with a 65w charger in the box. It's funny to me when companies claim much slower chargers are "fast".
Trying to charge your phone that fast is a great way to produce the magic smoke.
Not from the battery, from the charging circuitry getting nice and crispy from the heat.
the irony is that these things will brick you device rather than fix it
You could say these bricks would brick your device
@@RubikOwl Yo dawg, I heard you like bricks, so I put a brick in your brick so you can brick while you brick
Maybe if you're dumb enough to own an apple product, but it would never brick an android.
It's just a plain USB power supply. It won't hurt your device, but it won't do anything special either. It does not support any fast charging except Qualcomm QC2/3, which are neither particularly fast, nor is it supported by most phones.
am i the only one wo thinks if the device really could charge the phone in seconds (which it cant because the phone partly controls the input power) it would just instantly explode ?
"Programmed Extinction" sounds like what you get when you pass the phrase "Planned Obsolescence" through google translate too many times.
With a UGREEN Sponsor, the scammy QuickCharge charger is UGLY.
I prefer Essager products.
Why with UGreen? They are legit company and I uses their products quite a lot from charging cables to internet adapter. I just something that I can afford tho like that charger adapter can cause RM100+ which way too expensive for my budget.
@@FinnManusialearn to read
@@CrisCheese_ Its either saying both UGreen and QC is ugly or saying QC is ugly.
You know Ugreen just puts their logo on unbranded stuff? For everything ugreen sells, you can find the exact same product without their logo on it, for much less money.@@FinnManusia
I keep seeing 16 TB ssd for like $30 on Facebook.
_Who knew technology is _*_that_*_ good and _*_that_*_ cheap?_
That's definitely making the BS detector go off.
Usually when you get something like that it is actually 16GB and has software on it to make it look like it has the 16TB capacity, erasing old files automatically to make room for the new once you get to the actual 16GB capacity.
Are they already on 64-bit cell density at Hyundai? We haven't even left 4-bit cell density!
@@tammytheranger7645and you are correct. My UGREEN SSD was like 100 dirhams and it only had 256GB. It did say it was meant for 256GB
I love how people think changing a charger suddenly makes your phone support higher level charging. My 8T does 65watt and OP11 does 100watt, this actually does 100% in about 35 minutes.
There's a common belief that scams like this deliberately make stupid, exaggerated claims as a way to weed out smart people and only sucker in dumb people who don't know how technology works. The UA-camr kitboga (the guy who does the scam phone calls) points this out with the various "tech support scams" he annoys.
I love how people think 65W or 100W charging makes sense in a phone or is any good. You may get the first minutes fast charging, but then its as slow as any other phone
I charge my iPhone with 10W from 10% to 80% in less than an hour, if i really need it quick i use the 20W adapter and its from 20-80% within 20-30 Minutes as well.
@@harrison00xXxYou think it doesn't matter until you own a OnePlus phone and actually use it
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv not at all. I would charge on purpose with maximum 20W.
I must take issue with your exposé. I have been using a quick charge pro 3.0 for a couple of years now and it charges all of my equipment very nicely. It also gives me the ability to leap tall buildings with a single bound and run faster than a speeding bullet.
I bought $99 phones my whole life. Purchased a OnePlus 7 Pro for $760 in May, 2019. Still using it with zero plans to upgrade.
And unlike this scam charger that phone has fast charging tech that works!
I got a Samsung galaxy S 7 when they where new and used that thing for 9 years!!! Eventually got stolen and I had to upgrade! I don’t understand the whole fad of upgrading every year or 2 honestly
I upgraded my Oneplus 7 to used 7T this year after I shattered the display because it turned out to be the best price to performance model on used market. Though I'm thinking about Sony Xperia 1 line, they are neat, maybe when mk IV will get cheaper on used market...
So
These are just literally repackaged Aliexpress chargers.
I found them for sale on there for like $3.
They seem to be rated very well for a simple phone charger as it is sold on AE.
$1800 every year?!? I bought a Note 10+ for $350, used it for 3 years, then when I accidentally smashed it I bought another one for $315 and have had that 2 years.
Yeah, similar here. I buy a new smartphone every 4-5 years. I have spent $1k on some of them but that's nothing over many years. If people are truly spending thousands of dollars a year on smartphones, they have bigger issues they need to deal with.
my current phone is an xperia xz1c that I got used in very good shape for around $350 a couple years ago...I'll probably continue using it for at least another couple years without issue (small phone ftw)
edit: three years prior I got an og pixel 5" for $800, and 3 years before that I got the og moto x for $420 (which I would have used longer if I could have found a quality replacement battery)
the pixel is still technically usable but I wanted a smaller phone and better overall battery life even on a fresh battery. also apps kept occasionally updating on the pixel even though I disabled all auto-updates which was very frustrating
Man I took it further, bought a then new galaxy S7 when new and used it for 6 years till it got stolen and I had to get something else!
@@TheJunky228 i even still have a Pixel 3a end of October 2019 and it still running things like Animal Crossing and PokemonGo as "heavy" hitters totally fine and only now the battery get's noticeble "not longer that good" and the Charging needing a bit "suggestion" soooo i might look out for a new one ... next year? Maybe October again? somewhat quite far off from the scammers claims
I think it's probably a psychological ploy. "You're smarter than [and therefore superior to] those rich idiots, right?"
I always assumed ads not mentioning the name of the product, especially when it's a cheap scam, is so the ads can be repurposed when they're forced to abandon the previous branding.
Even hiring someone to act for their fake marketing is wild to me lol
They did not hire anybody. They used stock photos, and relatives/friends/each other for the video footage.
Surprised they don't mention NASA in the adverts- that's a common go-to for tech scammers
I love how "Gary Woodward" also admits to scalping at the end of his "review".
And somehow, YT still finds it impossible to vet ad claims, or respond to claims about frauds. Including the outright dagerous ones.
UA-cam doesn't care as long as they pay.
Maybe Big Clive will jump in and comment, but it looks from 21:42 that there is pretty much zero separation mains voltage and low voltage sides of the board, and therefore there is a very great risk of electrocution and fire.
I think the blue thing next to the "Optocoupler TWS 817 C247" is the Class Y capacitor, and you want to look at the separation on the board between those two pins.
Looking at 22:36, I think the Class Y is at the top of the image, and the separation there looks fine, but down at the other end of the board, that separation narrows down to what looks like less than 1mm
And also DiodeGoneWild would jump in and dissect that transformer and found out it has no separation to mains and is not a pure copper.
I don't believe that is a problem here.
The orientation of the bridge rectifier is so that the AC side is kept to the left and the output is to the right. Which combined with some basic filtering creates a steady voltage at the RMS value of the AC input (so actual 120V peak DC instead of 170V peak AC of US mains). Combined with how you need a higher DC potential to get sparking behaviour, the isolation requirement significantly reduces and i believe the smallest observable gap (At the output of the rectifier) falls within that tolerance.
This is a fairly common approach in (compact) wall wart designs.
That would be than awesome collaboration. They could have collab episodes and call it Big Ken and Crazy Clive
1:45 I love the reference of Mad TV John Madden Popcorn machine 😂
Can't wait to see a scam product with a "As seen on Computer Clans UA-cam Channel" sticker.
I have a Motorola phone with a "fast charge" option, but instead of it taking an hour and a half to charge, it charges from 16% in about 35 minutes give or take.
LOL.... I still have that same Franklin Spelling Ace too. Used that thing all the time as a sanity checker back in the "dark ages"....
i probbley need it
This is one of the best birthday gifts ever seeing a video from crazy ken! I’m happy I’m part of the computer clan!
The irony is if you get one of these scam chargers your phone battery might degrade faster because it’s not getting the right power. Get a decent charger made of good components and your battery will last 3-4 years no problem
"What country are you from? Oh US? Good we don't get prosecuted for lying our butts off there!"
Exactly! EU doesn't tolerate that crap, that's why the French website doesn't have these ridiculous claims.
Yeah, that’s how much the US really cares about consumers. Our government is a shitshow
@@FuckedUpGenius Nonsense, EU does what american tell them to do. And here the scammers are called "Ugreen", "Hama" and co.!
@@FuckedUpGenius Nonsense, EU does what american tell them to do. And here the scammers are called "Ugreen", "Hama" and co.!
@@harrison00xXxbollocks
Its hard to determine from here, but it looks like there is not enough isolation between HV and LV side of the charger. Its probably quite unsafe to even use..
The "supervisor" IC is most likely a MOSFET. These cheap chargers are bad enough. The PCB is missing a lot of safety features to prevent mains power from getting over to the USB ports.
The PCB doesn't look at all like the one from a reputable charger from say Apple or Samsung. There are no cutouts and the isolation distances over the PCB look iffy. Didn't really have a good look at the board but just eyeballing a few stills, it doesn't look very high quality at all.
@@wombatillo Diodegonewild on UA-cam sometimes tears apart chargers to see how safe they are and i bet when he sees this charger his conclusion will be: 'ultra dodgy'
"Smart defrag" LOL! Phones use solid state storage, which isn't affected by fragmentation.
And it has nothing to do with storage, so it's even funnier
Maybe the scammers are simply doing this to give Ken more stuff to dissect, therefore support the Computer Clan and get exposure
Genuinely, I wonder who most of Ken's audience actually is. I feel like 90% of the stuff Ken is talking about is basically general knowledge as long as you have at least a high school education or even decent street smarts. Are senior citizens or 8-year-olds watching this at home going, "Whoa! these guys would have totally fooled me! Thanks, KEN!"
FakeTuber trying to make some money targeting 60 year old maybe lol
@@johnjingleheimersmith9259 I think you're giving *entirely* too much credit to the average user's tech literacy. When I worked at a small MSP (our services ran the gamut but we mostly did enterprise networking), a shocking number of our university-educated clients - the majority of whom were attorneys - were of the "conpyewders r hard", Fruit™Brand-devotee mindset, and were far from immune to scams / ripoffs. These weren't solely oblivious 60-somethings on the cusp of retirement; many were fresh out of college, and irrespective of age, attained education, or industry, gullibility and a borderline terminal incuriosity about the world and the technology in it were more or less the norm.
Ken I appreciate your videos very much busting scams and scammers.
0:52 Was that a picture of aluminum foil that flashed by?
This is somehow more absurd than it used to be. Planned obsolescence is real, in some senses, but it isn't as front and center as people may think. Intel designing a new socket with just one more pin, or locking CPUs to certain chipsets despite having the same socket and skilled coders proving that they can support older CPUs and Intel just decided to lock them, for example. These people want you to believe that your phone slowing down is only ever due to this rather than just software getting more advanced, more complex, and harder to run as a consequence(with a healthy helping of developer laziness deciding not to spend more time optimizing just because modern hardware can handle a little spaghetti here and there).
Not even getting started on the fact that batteries are effectively sustained and reversible chemical reactions that will inevitably have inert side-products build up over time. And if you replace your 1200 phone once a year you're doing something wrong, I've seen $300 models last three times as long!
Yup. I remember way back in the early 90s, people thinking that video game companies were scamming them by releasing the Sega Genesis or Super Nintendo. When it was just technology rapidly advancing. It's like saying a car company is "scamming" you because they have an improved 2024 model compared to your 1990 model.
That figure is just the average of what people spend per year on 2 year contract for the latest galaxy ultra or iphone, no one is buying the newest phone every year up front.
@@drygnfyre Yep, though to be fair, if K recall correctly, the model year system is kind of a planned obsolescence model. The whole reason it was introduced was a way of encouraging those that simply must have the newest model of everything to keep returning for the newest model, holding back technology and style changes and advancements on purpose to make the next model year more desirable than the current one.
Doesn't mean the improvements themselves are a scam, but cars really don't need to be released yearly but they are to exploit some peoples' need to have the newest of everything.
One of the reasons I say planned obsolescence is real, but not as obvious as many people think it is. After all, if products just simply failed out of nowhere the way people think planned obsolescence works, people wouldn't buy those products anymore because that's a bad experience. Planned obsolescence is just that, obsolescence. If you want that shiny new feature that your old device could easily use, oh well you'd better buy the new one. Your motherboard could use the newest CPU but we won't support it so that you're forced to buy another new motherboard. Oh this new part in this new model year can fit in your vehicle but we still won't sell it to you - you'll have to buy the new model year for that. Your device's component stopped working? It's a pity we started soldering that component directly to the board, you'll have to buy a new one since you can't repair it now. Etc and so forth.
@@talibong9518 I say this having talked to people actually genuinely complaining they had to spend $1200 a year on a replacement phone. Some people people absolutely do buy these phones outright yearly.
When market leading brands exploit customers by not providing chargers then these types of scams will flourish.
You know what’s funny about the first ad? They’re using half of the claims from the BoltzPro scam. These scammers aren’t even trying anymore. It’s almost as if they know they’re ripping people off with their bullshit. So they can’t even come up with a new backstory. That’s just sad
What about the Ugreen ads? Same problem.... they advertise a good product, yet its trash
They don't need to. Only gullible people fall for these scams.
@@Fred2-123 good point…
From the engineering perspective, the claim of that ad campaign is a complete bs! It breaks the laws of physics. 🤣🤣
At 2:34, you can see something like *“Algorithmic Lithium Induction”* which she made up completely outta her a$$! There's no such term like that in chemical engineering! People in general might get convinced after seeing those big words! 😂😂
I keep wanting to have a go at building a phone charger that could work off of a railway overhead traction supply (25kV, ca. 5MW) and if built that would potentially be the fastest phone charger in history! 🚄⚡📲😁
The practical problems of course would be the ground return, the fact you'd have to be HV trained in order to use it, and the fact most of us don't have a convenient 25kV railway traction supply in our homes. 😉
And at the end of the day; If my phone will only accept charge current at up to 5W, 5MW availability isn't going to make it charge any faster. I could try _forcing_ a higher level of current into the phone of course, but the end result won't be a faster charging phone...Or a usable phone, for that matter! 📱💥🙃
"Charge = C = GmM/r^2" - this whiteboard is a thing of beauty in general.
@@dieseldragon6756 how will you prevent it from exploding?
@@fennecfoxfanatic Probably put a sticker on it that says _„Made in Britain“._ 🙃
That won't prevent anything from exploding of course...But if _The IT Crowd_ teaches us anything, it is that phrase is an internationally understood warning about the possibility... 🧯🇬🇧🔥😉
That mass connected to a spring and damper started giving me flashbacks to system dynamics. Funnily enough the board looks exactly like the kind of BS I'd have written trying to get partial credit on an exam question lmao. I have gladly not had to think about that class for a few years so I'm a little rusty, but I am still able to confidently say that newtonian gravity never came up when deriving the diff eqs for a mass/spring/damper system. I'm just impressed by the complete lack of effort they put into this scam. You have to be a special kind of lazy to use a MSD problem entirely unrelated to electronics when probably 1/3 to 1/2 of system dynamics is calculating the responses of resistor/capacitor/inductor circuits (at least for the ME course at my school) lmao
I have got the model quick charge 3.0 -044 a 3 pin version here in England and it does not quick charge at all
21:00 when you said that, in my head I heard photonicinduction say "were's ma hammer"
12:06 The more a battery is charged, the more power you need to charge it. So, the Amps are increasing through the charge. Then the charger will go into trickling mode, which consumes much less. So, it's more of a ramp followed by a cliff.
Maybe companies misdescribe it to make people feel good.
It's possible I misunderstood the explanation in the video.
Source: Electro-mecanics studies, followed by industrial computing.
I believe that's why the fast/quick charge new phones come with usually say will charge from 0-50% in X amount of minutes, after that charging does start to slow down... I'm not aure if it's a "cliff" or more gradual a slowdown after that (it maybe a steep drop followed by a more gradual decline). That will largely depend on the phones charging software
QC 3.0 doesn't max out at 18W, 2.0 does. QC 3.0 maxes out at 36W, Ofc that's just on paper and depends on the device/charger/cord
at 4:00 is that Sam Bankman-Fried? behind the teacher? No wonder this was a scam.
OH GOD, THE PAIN OF THE SCAMS! PLEASE KEN, SAVE ME!
Yeah, just beware that you dont fall for the Ugreen scam
Proffesor Gibbs is so smart he doesn’t know how to spell professor.
That's hilarious 😂
I have a charger that looks like this. I bought it for cheap cause I forgot my charger at home. That's like 7 dollars.
Scammers will never stop if quick money is made.
My dad's friends are buying "power savers" to plug into outlets nearest the breaker boxes, since electrical companies are continually producing frequency spikes to increase everyone's electrical wastage and bills--scams!
Those folks over at qc pro must have thought: SOMEONE ACTUALLY BOUGHT 2 ! WOW.
Ah, we're circling back to ads like "Industry XYZ doesn't want you to know about this!"
I always love seeing Old Man Ken. I had to rewatch that scene 3 times. The rest of the video is great as always.
Other countries have better and more strict false advertising laws. Unlike the US which has very weak customer protections laws. With all the bills and laws they’ve been passing in the past decade it’s basically 100% legal to lie and false advertise to anyone in the US as long as said lie doesn’t cause health problems. God bless capitalism. 💰
The US actually has pretty strict false advertising laws, but these companies that sell these are not based in the US, and they are fly by night operations that pop up and disappear forever in months, to pop up under a different name, so they are effectively untouchable and don’t care.
you should cover more "Apple watch scams" too I have been seeing far too many of these for it to be ordinary
anyways vision pro review when?!?
Oh funny, i bought 2 off these from China. I just searched for cheap 4xUSB chargers. Did not see any of the ridicules clames, and did not need any quick charges. So i am still happy with my 4x1.5Amp chargers, even though of course nothing oft the QC3.0 oder "3Amp" stuff did work. But for the price i payed (a few Bucks/Euro), im am satified... cheap crap, but does basic charging...
The crazy thing about their quick charge claims being so revolutionary is that my phone came with a 120w charger that can take my phone from 0-100 in about 40 minutes safely, and it would still be holdable. I got this charger completely free. If I were to plug a different phone in, it would straight up say no and not charge.
I'd imagine it would charge. These things, they, talk to each other, handshake, how much can you take, OK, I'll give you that... Some are smarter than I am...
Incorrect. Most phones would probably charge at a locked rate of 15W or 25W or whatever their limit is.
The funny thing is I bought the same charger in the video (with full knowledge it's not at all a fast charger) from a local e-commerce platform and it costed me less than 3 MYR, equivalent to like, 0.60 USD. And they're selling it for 37 USD... 😵
Well that charger wasn't a game changer
Thanks Ken, for helping people stay on top of the whirlwind of products hitting the market, good and bad.
8:05 you can tell this is a video playing on the phone because it goes from the boot screen straight to the Home Screen, where it would normally prompt for passcode on restart.
Hold up, these chargers are available on my local online classifieds for like 5 bucks (I live in Asia). They're pretty popular and are a decent multi-USB solution. I had no idea these were being upsold with wild conspiracy theories over there
I wouldn't say decent - they're unsafe to use.
21:12 "by the magic of buying 2 of them"
@ 4:11 OMG!!!! The wiring in my house is degrading!
NOOOOOO I"M MELTINGGGGGGGGGG!!!!
My parents will defend any scam they buy possible. A salesman talked them into a $110 apple charger to make their iPhones battery “last longer.” They also bought a a usb strip that they believed the claims that it fully charged batteries. These scammers will always exist as long as stupid people do, and if that’s all it takes to make ridiculous ‘scams,’ then are they really scams? I think it’s genius.
If they could indeed charge any phone so fast, if anything it would be extremely damaging to the battery. There is a good reason why companies don't just pump 200+Watts into their flagship phones. That would be a crazy advertisement point for their flagships and yet nobody does that
11:09 wow, it's a Zune 4/8/16gb, the flash one, didn't expect to see the picture of Zune(out of all things) as battery expansion example
I have an iPhone XR battery is around 80%use left.
Would it be worth putting a new battery in it at a phone repair shop. After the last update to 17.6 something it went down from 96% to 85% in a month of use. Will the new battery face the same issues? I love my XR and don’t want a new phone if I can just rebattery it and be in good shape for a few more years? Thank you, hope you can answer this question for me !
The claim that "Big tech companies are gathering to sue them" is a simple lie to make you feel like you better get yours now before its too late. Absolute manipulative B.S.
Fun fact: If your phone is rated for 20w, and you use 65w charger, your phone still only pulls 20w.
It won't magically pull more power even though you use 65w.
5:00 -> It is not possible to patent a thing after it has been shown to the world (prior art) - nobody can retroactively patent something that is 'out there' and stop other people using it.
I have always used the lowest mAh rated chargers. Less current = longer charging = less wear on the battery = longer life.
Not sure if it falls in Ohm's law. However, charging has to be more (I/V) than the battery. Hence why most chargers are 5V for a 3.7V battery. The lower the current the better.
Same principle as a trickle charge for a car battery.
No it's 5 volts because it's USB, which is 5 volts because that was the standard voltage of digital logic for several decades previously and provides plenty of voltage to feed 3.3 volt logic with a step down regulator.
@@TimothyEBaldwin My point was it takes more V A than the battery has to charge.
A 5V charger will charge a 5V battery as long as the charger has more amps than the battery ampere output.
Your disassembly reminds of Big Clive, his says, "One moment please, while I use extreme violence" or he picks up his 'X-ray machine' (a club hammer)
so many scam products keep returning, the electronic shock pads that will give you a 6 pack, the gas saver that plugs into the obd port etc ...