It turns out that offline is less annoying than online now. sure, you can't block the ads, but at least none of my daily transactions make me wish great harm upon the other person.
everything in the article is enabled by the customer not being able to punch the engineer, who coded the feature, in the face. or management, who demanded the feature to be as horrible as possible, A/B-tested to perfect the needle with which it will torment you.
being shielded and removed to this degree from the user, the customer, doesn't drive healthy products.
Delightfully appropriate article for a Monday morning.
The constancy of ads, popups, dark patterns, and general “enshittification” genuinely pushes me towards a Luddite mentality.
As a cybersecurity professional, I enjoy not having any smart devices in my home. It’s not worth the hassle of initial configuration and maintenance, but the peace of mind from reducing impact of inevitable data breaches that reveal just how much telemetry is captured from a simple device is eternally appealing.
Reduce, reuse, recycle; in that order. We must all stop obsessing over the new hot piece of tech that inevitable ends up improperly disposed in landfills.
The profanity in the title is well-applied for the situation, imo.
I thought the article would be about comment sections of different internet platforms like this one, or reddit, or youtube, or facebook, or literally anything with comments sections, where people should shut the fuck up if they don’t know what they are yapping about, and how the world would be a better place for it, but it disappointed me in that regard.
100% it's just a way to get us to buy things. Sometimes it feels like the rich are all trying to plan their exit by finding any way possible to take money from people.
Somehow I am starting to feel like that it is not even about taking the money or exit. It is about making numbers go up. Anything for that goal. Without any actual plan for end goal or keeping it together in the end.
> Sometimes it feels like the rich are all trying to plan their exit by finding any way possible to take money from people.
I think it's just mindless, and not in service of any kind of plan.
But that's really unsatisfying, so there's a strong temptation to think there's a plan and look for one. Sort of like the situations that lead to conspiracy theories.
if I came and rubbed a feather on your neck while you try to work would you be able to control your emotions or would you punch me in the mouth in rage? :)
Well, the success of enshittification reflects a lot about general population. Just like how the meaningless TV content reflects people's taste. It's just evolution. Things boil down to what people really want or can tolerate.
It turns out that offline is less annoying than online now. sure, you can't block the ads, but at least none of my daily transactions make me wish great harm upon the other person. everything in the article is enabled by the customer not being able to punch the engineer, who coded the feature, in the face. or management, who demanded the feature to be as horrible as possible, A/B-tested to perfect the needle with which it will torment you. being shielded and removed to this degree from the user, the customer, doesn't drive healthy products.
While I agree with the sentiment, technically you can always fill in the username password via the password manager now (at least on iOS).
The only way to win is to not play.
Delightfully appropriate article for a Monday morning.
The constancy of ads, popups, dark patterns, and general “enshittification” genuinely pushes me towards a Luddite mentality.
As a cybersecurity professional, I enjoy not having any smart devices in my home. It’s not worth the hassle of initial configuration and maintenance, but the peace of mind from reducing impact of inevitable data breaches that reveal just how much telemetry is captured from a simple device is eternally appealing.
Reduce, reuse, recycle; in that order. We must all stop obsessing over the new hot piece of tech that inevitable ends up improperly disposed in landfills.
The profanity in the title is well-applied for the situation, imo.
I thought the article would be about comment sections of different internet platforms like this one, or reddit, or youtube, or facebook, or literally anything with comments sections, where people should shut the fuck up if they don’t know what they are yapping about, and how the world would be a better place for it, but it disappointed me in that regard.
everyone seems mad these days
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Nope.
for a good reason.
everything is enshittified and most of the global economy is just financial engineering
100% it's just a way to get us to buy things. Sometimes it feels like the rich are all trying to plan their exit by finding any way possible to take money from people.
Somehow I am starting to feel like that it is not even about taking the money or exit. It is about making numbers go up. Anything for that goal. Without any actual plan for end goal or keeping it together in the end.
> Sometimes it feels like the rich are all trying to plan their exit by finding any way possible to take money from people.
I think it's just mindless, and not in service of any kind of plan.
But that's really unsatisfying, so there's a strong temptation to think there's a plan and look for one. Sort of like the situations that lead to conspiracy theories.
> for a good reason
Why do you let other people control your emotions? How is that healthy?
if I came and rubbed a feather on your neck while you try to work would you be able to control your emotions or would you punch me in the mouth in rage? :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence
Well, the success of enshittification reflects a lot about general population. Just like how the meaningless TV content reflects people's taste. It's just evolution. Things boil down to what people really want or can tolerate.