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Das Boo posted:Also YT keeps recommending me toxic right-wing takes on things I like. I literally can't block them all. In keeping with the thread, this is intentional. At some point, certain topics pick up associations - for example, sometimes I watch videos about gaming, and youtube seems to have created the link that people who like games also tend to like alt right poo poo. "Hey, now that you're done watching that age of empires video, maybe you'd like something about hitler, eh? ehhh??" No, stop that. But it's well-known that it's intentional to promote inflammatory content, not just on youtube but all social media. The point isn't to make people happy or to make the world a better place, it's to keep you watching and clicking. The like and dislike buttons do exactly the same thing; they don't care how much you liked a video, they care that you were engaged enough to click a button after you watched something. And inflammatory videos/posts do that. It keeps people in the rage loop for to the detriment of both the individual and society. This helps literally no one except the shareholders of the company, but it's become the norm on every single relevant media company today.
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Why the gently caress is this? Peacock for example you have to scroll down like 6 rows, wtf yo suggestion algorithm I literally ONLY watch Law and Order (original), at lunch, to take a nap, on your service - don't loving suggest me poo poo. especially if its like 30 shows about reality housewives or cake baking or some other low effort trash CJacobs posted:My grandparents' bank is ending paper billing. For people who are young that's easy to grasp and transition to because we all grew up with that technology. But my grandparents now have to spend hours transferring all of their assets over to a web based system that looks the exact same and runs the exact same except they don't get a paper transaction each month. They're confused, frustrated, and the bank won't help them because there are many cases ongoing for some strange reason. My favorite "protect the environment and going green!!!!" bullshit is when electronics components don't include a power cord or some bullshit and they put some loving notecard in the box that says "WE ARE GOING GREEN!!!! WE BET YOU ALREADY HAVE A CORD SO NO POWER ADAPTER FOR YOU! but if you do need one call us and we can ship you one" so 100% the only reason they are doing it is to save money, and then they have to create two shipments which of course is not GOING GREEN but that part doesn't matter because its not really about that in the first place Captain Beans fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Jun 17, 2023 |
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Discord updated their mobile app so uploading photos from your phone is even harder now and it sorts by recent photos you uploaded to discord, not recent photos you took on your phone. Enshittification has made me so cynical that I feel like this boneheaded move has to rn something related to nudging people to Nitro(their paid plan) but I can’t figure out what it is. But yeah I agree with the theory that a lot of otherwise confusing UI decisions are just somebody trying to justify their job/a promotion.
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Sweaty IT Nerd posted:My TV just got an update that makes me look at a bunch of apps I don't care about before I can select input. Smart TVs are an abomination and a perfect example of things made shittier for no good reason. Nearly impossible to buy a non-smart TV now. Edit: Search engines across the board have gotten much shittier. I'm increasingly getting low-effort sites, blogspam, and marketing, and its only getting worse. Edit2: Windows desperately wanting to be used on tablets. They're starting to design the entire OS around the idea that *maybe* you're working on a tablet and just making the experience worse overall for the vast majority of their userbase. ryde fucked around with this message at 01:42 on Jun 17, 2023 |
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:So what do we learn from this? With everything online being slowly degraded. There are absolutely people idealistically trying to do that, though with varying luck. Consider Mastodon, which is basically "Twitter, but with the openness and interoperability of email". Does it suck? Absolutely, both because it's run by people and as a side effect of some fundamental choices. Is it being destroyed by a group of MBA C-suiters who want to pump up the value before cashing out? No, there are a couple of different implementations that can talk to each other and they're all being written by small groups of people. Who hate each other, but that's a separate issue. The problem is that most people want a streamlined "register here and you're ready to find most other people on earth" experience, and you can't blame them for that.
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The official term for this kind of thing is crapification Not sure why it isn't more widely known
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I'm posting because I'm thinking about all the online ways to EASILY communicate with others in text format are going bye bye and I'm sad about it.
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Most weather radars are not nearly as good as they use to be a decade ago. TV stations, weather.com, wundergorund all have those “interactive radars”. Finally found a good radar app, l radar scope. Waiting for that to go down hill though.
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aniviron posted:New exciting change as of tonight which is tiny but annoying, opening videos from youtube into a new tab with middle click no longer works when clicking on the video thumbnail, it now requires you to do it on the title. It's probably a firefox exclusive issue, because google goes out of their way to sabotage firefox, a 70 market share is not enough; it's also much higher than 70 if you consider that most remaining alternatives are chromium-derived. I fuckin thought I was going crazy Denim Dude fucked around with this message at 02:57 on Jun 17, 2023 |
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Amazon shipping has become sub-poo poo-tier for us in the last year. Stuff just goes missing now, I ordered a replacement vacuum cleaner hose and they sent some stevia based chocolate sauce instead (??). They always want me to run the return out to them and these days I refuse - you hosed it up, you come pick your poo poo up. 99% of the time they just tell me to keep it.
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I installed an extension that blocks Youtube recommendations and it's pretty close to one of the best things I've ever done.
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SilvergunSuperman posted:Newpipe is the same thing, minus that pesky fee I use newpipe too but keep in mind it doesn't use any google apis which means each time you open the app its basically like opening youtube in a private window. it doesn't remember what you like which is fine for me because i watch less than 10 minutes of youtube per month on my phone. but if you do watch a ton of poo poo on your phone and you would like it to remember your interests without actually having to log in i think revanced is the way to go also if you have a fire stick download the "downloader" app straight from the app store. then check out stn beta or skytube. no adds on your fire tv capable big screen. Denim Dude fucked around with this message at 03:00 on Jun 17, 2023 |
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Enshittification Megathread has a pretty good ring to it imo I need to get a PC to make work related stuff easier and I’m dreading having to use windows again. My old laptop had 10 on it and that OS hijacked my system 24/7 to do who the gently caress knows what in the background. I was always finding new garbage installed I never asked for and seeing candy crush ads in the start menu.
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It's a small thing, but why is the actual video element in a twitter post 41 nested divs deep?
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On amazon, if you search for a cd, it brings you to the mp3 store/streaming service. It's hard to even find cds on there now. Click on the artist name? More streaming poo poo.
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Waltzing Along posted:On amazon, if you search for a cd, it brings you to the mp3 store/streaming service. It's hard to even find cds on there now. Click on the artist name? More streaming poo poo. What few cds I have left I cherish You'll take my Acid Bath cds from my cold dead hands
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Phones lost replaceable batteries, the audio jack, and sdxc expansion
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AirPods use to be the perfect shape for my ears. Now the new design is bigger and fall out easier. WHY!?
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I did a factory reset on my phone and now exiting apps to the home screen is unreliable
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20 Blunts posted:i swear to god Google Maps gets a little more awkward to use every month
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Arrhythmia posted:I installed an extension that blocks Youtube recommendations and it's pretty close to one of the best things I've ever done. You know, I have to do some contrary posting to say that I actually enjoy recommendations and how spot on they are for me. The algo has a pretty good sense of when I’m getting into something deep and when I’m open to seeing things from other channels, then sometimes it goes “do you wanna know why power lines have those funny ceramic shapes near the wires? Of course you do” and then I watch the video and learn something new. Once in a blue moon the algo suggests something I extremely hate but more often than not I get a nice stream of educational and interesting videos relevant to my interests. Of course, I don’t expect this golden age period in algo reccs to last forever for me, I’m sure google will eventually find a way to piss me off and into canceling a 3 year long streak of YouTube Premium, but luckily it isn’t at that point yet (for me).
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ikanreed posted:The whole loving planet is like a degree hotter than when I was born. Man, if only we had some sort of warning that this was going to happen....
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:So what do we learn from this? With everything online being slowly degraded. I don't think the internet will ever become something where you have to pay for everything. We're too used to being able to find free stuff to do what we need and want, and that will always be there. And I'd be surprised if in 20 years there's much human-involved content at all. Moore's Law is still clinging on by a thread, and that means we're going to see poo poo we couldn't believe by 2043. I mean, if you told your 2000 self that legit AI existed in 2023 that can easily fool people and that yes, self-driving cars would exist, not to mention phones that are more powerful that $10,000 desktops from that time, you'd laugh. It's like that Patton Oswalt joke about him going back and meeting his 1990s self with a cassette tape and pointing out that in 2010 we'd have a thing half that size that would be able to hold every song ever created and have room for more. This poo poo is nuts and it's only getting crazier.
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The nba 2k games
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acejackson42 posted:not to mention phones that are more powerful that $10,000 desktops from that time, you'd laugh. Yeah it’s supremely bonkers to me how much things a phone can do that you’d normally need a computer for, and the bottlenecks against usability/comfort come from screen size and software, not really hardware horsepower. Equally nuts is that the cost is so low that homeless people are by and large smartphone connected too.
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CJacobs posted:The editing program I use to make my let's plays VEGAS got bought from Sony, The Sony, by a company called MAGIX and they immediately ruined its performance and functionality. You pretty much can't use it without a crash and there are dozens of videos on YouTube from internet faith healers claiming they know how to make it stable. jump ship from this poo poo software already and try davinki resolve
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Make sure to do an internet search with your shampoo and the word lawsuit. Quite a few make your hair fall out
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Wikipedia's new design. Yet another web designer thought that my desktop site needs to fit on a phone for 'clarity' and 'readability' and forgot that I don't want scroll every 3rd sentence.
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I'm shopping for a specific kind of used car, which even a few years ago was relatively straightforward, but recently has become excruciating. Regular Google sends me down a hell of adwords and bullshit listings from years ago. Car specific sites like Autotrader are saturated with "sponsored listings" which have literally nothing to do with what I'm looking for. Free sites like Craigslist are out-and-out-liars - the most recent annoyance is scummy used car lots listing good vehicles for good prices, and in the fine print saying that price is the down payment. Who the gently caress are they fooling with an 8k down payment on a 22k vehicle? Simple sorts by things like "less than 100k miles" and "less than 20k dollars" are worthless, because (again) scummy used car lots list the cars by the payment price and not the sale price. Some real shitheels list the vehicle with the mileage off the new engine. Then there's the general internet fuckery of listing cars on the internet that they dont have possession of, photoshopped pics on listings, trying to pass a salvage title off as clean, etc.
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ICE COLD AC
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Canine Blues Arooo posted:Wikipedia's new design. Yet another web designer thought that my desktop site needs to fit on a phone for 'clarity' and 'readability' and forgot that I don't want scroll every 3rd sentence. There are really smart ways for web designers to design for both but it takes more effort so forget it
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aniviron posted:New exciting change as of tonight which is tiny but annoying, opening videos from youtube into a new tab with middle click no longer works when clicking on the video thumbnail, it now requires you to do it on the title. It's probably a firefox exclusive issue, because google goes out of their way to sabotage firefox, a 70 market share is not enough; it's also much higher than 70 if you consider that most remaining alternatives are chromium-derived. Bolded the Firefox part cause as a Chrome user, it's not exclusive to loving over Firefox 
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I am dreading the day my TV dies, it was the last generation of dumb TV and I know when I seek a replacement it’ll have to be a smart TV with smart features like data mining and ads that play between screen modes and rear end firmware apps that don’t work and
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KariOhki posted:Bolded the Firefox part cause as a Chrome user, it's not exclusive to loving over Firefox In that case, lol, lmao, why did they break their own website like this.
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