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Washington
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Searching for advice regarding parental control for phone use, I was initially impressed by their review of NetNanny as a best of 2023 product (mind you, when writing this it is Aug of 2023). After going through paying for the app and installing it on my child's phone, I find the app was made for an older version of Android. What? What a waste of time. Please update your research, Tom (name chosen by unknown marketing company to appear trustworthy to we simple consumers in the U.S.).

Date of experience: August 13, 2023
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Unable to read sections of the article due to ads covering sections of text. Combine poor programming with greed and you get Tom's guide. More ads than there are text, and new ones pop up every 1.5 seconds. Blocked from any of my news feeds. Find proper journalism, not click bait facebook quizzes from these hacks.

Date of experience: May 28, 2023
Nevada
4 reviews
523 helpful votes
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Terrible. Avoid it.
April 12, 2023

Littered with stupid opinions and incompetent writers that think they know better than you. Spend your time on sites with writers that actually respect your opinions.

Date of experience: April 12, 2023
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Samsung S22 $199 trade in deal
May 31, 2022

BOGUS TRAP. Everytime I went through the menu to order and select my preferences, price showed $199... UNTIL I went to agree to order and checkout. Then price jumped to $1199, every time! I chatted, and was told Samsung does not price match...?

Date of experience: May 30, 2022

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Texas
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Worst site
May 13, 2022

Literally everything is bad about it. It's a complete waste of time, and I never want to visit the website again. Too much junk.

Date of experience: May 13, 2022
Illinois
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Mozilla VPN
November 1, 2020

Tom's gave this glowing review on Mozilla VPN and they couldn't be more wrong.
No matter what I told it where to go on at it always gave the City I was in.
I brought up maps to see the City I chose and instead they should my home LON & LAT numbers not to mentioned it slowed my service down from 500 mbs to 46, I canceled.

Date of experience: November 1, 2020
Nigeria
1 review
1 helpful vote
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A Horrible Website Littered with Video Ads
September 26, 2020

Would've been one of the best tech websites out there if not for the video ads littered all over the website. You practically wouldn't be able to open a single page on that website without be greated with a video ad. This is the same reason why I blacklisted a website like Goal.com.

People like me from a data conscious region, where data cost takes a toll on our finances, will definitely have no business using websites like Tom's Guide. Therefore, I am blacklisting it too.

Date of experience: September 26, 2020
Canada
4 reviews
19 helpful votes
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Good response
September 26, 2018

Nothing wrong with this site. Good practical information. Get the tech questions and info you need. Also a safe excellent place to download some free software.

Date of experience: September 25, 2018
Indonesia
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Great site
July 15, 2018

Excellent place if you looking for information on almost anything tech related. I visit this place often and almost always find an answer

Date of experience: July 13, 2018