That's not even what pisses me off the most about the whole situation. I'm upset that my friends and family don't care.
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gestures to everything else I mean... we are fucking drowning in situations to care about.
.....fuckkkk. that's fair.
But at a certain point, it's still a cop out. And part of the trick. If you drown anyone in enough bullshit, you can't expect it to all get called out -- but that doesn't mean it's not all bullshit. It is divide and conquer in another form.
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I short of have a theory with this. There's this belief that "netflix killed piracy" because they provided an actual service with a fair price and the commodity that people wanted to watch shows. And that later on, it got enshittified. But I kinda think that, collaterally, a very important factor that explains people not even knowing how to download a torrent or having 0 critical mind when it comes to the other companies abusing their power has been the surge of smartphones
They were designed to have idiot-proof protection, but more and more they distanced newer generations from having a minimal technical background on how to use computers, which then leads to a more ignorant society incapable of saying no to such companies
I'm not saying this has been the main factor but I have my suspicions to believe it might be related
This is such a good observation. We all assumed the "digital natives" generation was going to be able to just be hacker-level familiar with technology. And for those who grew up with just PCs, it's probably true. But the "smartphone native" generation followed so quickly it changed the learning patterns. They understand tech generally and specific apps, but get lost with troubleshooting general problems because computers became appliances.
Scary to think but...Are the same young people who a decade ago were tech support for their parents and grandparents going to have to also do it for their adult children and grandchildren?
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should not be tolerated.
Neither should posting YT videos that should've been articles
A paragraph's worth of information stretched into ten minutes? I've got way better things to do with my time
Edit - twenty four minutes, fuckin hell
Synopsis by Gemini -
This video by Mrwhosetheboss argues that big tech companies are prioritizing profits over users. The video uses the term "in ification" to describe a three-stage pattern that many tech companies follow. In the first stage, the company offers a superior service at a lower price to gain users. Once they have a large user base, the company focuses on increasing profits from those users by employing tactics like tiering and subscriptions. Finally, the company may reduce the quality of the service while still charging more.
The video uses Uber as an example. Initially, Uber was significantly cheaper and more convenient than taxis. Uber was able to attract a large user base by offering low prices and a better user experience. Once Uber had a dominant market share, they introduced surge pricing and began to take a larger cut of each fare.
The video also criticizes the proliferation of subscription services. The video argues that many companies are offering subscription services for features that were previously free or included in a lower-priced subscription. The video says that this can be a bad deal for consumers, especially when they have to subscribe to multiple services to access all the content they want.
Overall, the video argues that big tech companies are becoming less user-friendly and more focused on extracting money from their users. The video concludes with a call to action, urging viewers to be more critical of subscription services and to cancel them when they are not being used.
Exploitative patterns like those idiotic youtube thumbnails the creators are using to draw extra attention to emotions not actually present in the video?
Or making half hour videos for all of 14 sentences of actual content, to stretch the ad-income as much as they can.
Yeah, that. Wish I could give a video -1 view instead of +1 after clicking onto it. Fuck youtubers such as this one, they're part of the problem and don't get to have a say in what we should or should not try to care about.
100% agree. I've found mrwhostheboss channel to be the worst when it comes to clickbait.
If it isn't a text file which I can read in 1/10th of the time it would take me to watch a stupid video (if not less), I'm just not bothering.
Plus it's always a video, but never actually uses the medium. It's just shots of the host talking to the camera. Very very rarely showing clips or screenshots that could even better be embedded in an article.
Can you do a lot with a video, if done well and for the right subject? Of course, and for those it'd absolutely be the correct choice. But people like the guy linked in the OP are neither capable of nor interested in doing that, as it's just a business to them. It increases income, so long youtube videos it is. That's one big takeaway anyways: Content creators talk about this shit not because they care, but because it gives them money. It's a business, not a passion.
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The "best" you could do in this case is use ad blockers, don't use an account and never interact. Even a negative interaction counts. It's all "engagement," even if negative.
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Windows 11 is rife with it
Why do I have to tell my computer several time per week that I do not wish to let the X box app make changes to my computer?? I've never had anything to do with an X box. Oh, now you're going to make my computer unusably slow unless I update and.. what's that.. ? I can't fucking update unless I ALLOW X BOX APP TO MAKE CHANGES TO MY COMPUTER??? Fuck you windows 11.
Sounds like it’s not your computer.
To be clear, I do believe it is your computer, but it sure sounds like it isn’t.
It's X box's computer now..
Freaking Ironic using a VPN as a sponsorship for this video... VPN landscape is literary riddled with Dark Patterns. Surfshark are also guilty of applying these.
Those sponsored ads just tell me to avoid those companies. I'm not from the US, so some stuff goes right over my head (food delivery, clothing), but anything tech related (VPNs, browsers, password managers, etc.) I'll just gonna double down to never use or look into those companies.
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I had one subscription where cancellation was not only buried in a bunker somewhere in the deepest pits of their website, but once you found the magical incantation to get through it the next step was to send them an email requesting a cancellation.
You can't cancel T-Mobile on their site, they require you to call. Even then I got no email verification nor letter about the cancellation. Cool...
one time i had to call a company during regular 9-5 business hours to cancel a subscription after starting a free trial.
that experience was so horrible ive since sworn off free trials altogether. nowadays, if i need a free trial to use an app or website for a couple days, then i will simply not use that app or website.
Skipping a month of Humble Choice is an exercise in gotchas. Sometimes the blue button, sometimes not, about 5 confirmation screens to skip through.
I don't know why I'm still subbed in all honestly.
It took me a long time to cancel but I finally did because I'd been skipping for every month over the course of maybe two years. I had found out that the classic plan doesn't even have an advantage anymore, so there was no point in me maintaining that.
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We don't need a shitty youtuber to tell us what we've known for years?
It’s actually a really well made and comprehensive video that will undoubtedly be a wake up call to lots of people.
Are you complaining because the video was posted here or because it was made in the first place? Maybe this community doesn't need it, but there are a lot of people out there with not much awareness of what's happening in this realm.
It's for the majority of people that didn't woke up yet
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Free money has dried up, so competition is drying up a bit too. And without free money, the big guys are feeling some squeeze and now want to extract the rent they always planned to eventually extract.
Can we name, shame and review bomb companies that do this?
It’d be easier to list the companies that don’t.
It’s happening everywhere, totally unchecked.
Yes. This is pretty fucking apparent but again, cant do shit about it because corps have paid off our politicians and we can do fuck all about it because we have no way to properly revolt lest we all risk bankruptcy and lose everything.
The EU doesn't let big corps bully their citizen with monopolies, maybe you could try to implement some of their policies at home
Everyone complains about the cookie popups, but let's be honest, this is already a huge improvement.
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Has anyone here noticed how it's almost impossible to watch a TikTok on mobile if you don't have an account or the app? My friend sends me links and I click it but the website opens playing it muted and it only plays the TikTok one time, no repeating. Then it prompts me to install the app. If I say I don't want to the unmute button disappears and I'm unable to play the TikTok again with sound. The only way to do it is to refresh which just prompts me to download the app again after being played the TikTok one time with no sound. Aggravating as all hell.
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