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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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UltimateGuitar shows a fake tutorial video with the title of the song you're trying to learn. Clicking it just brings you to the sign-up page for their premium subscription. (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] blazeknave@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I hear you and don't think you're off base or anything. Per my above peer comment, I think I'm just accepting our new norm and blocking when I can. I sell software and have done so since before LinkedIn. There are few ways to get attention now. The anarchist in me is disgusted and tries to spend time in nature. The middle aged defeated man sees that we live in fucking Minority Report ๐Ÿ˜”

[โ€“] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

I get ya. I still got enough vim and vigor to get fuckin pissed at it rofl.

Share this with you, cause your last comment reminded me of it.