at least when it comes to consumer tech

like i can't even remember the last time i was excited for a new tech thing. maybe my second smart phone, i guess? that one was at least a big improvement from my first one. third was marginally better, and then the fourth, which i'm using now, i feel like i only got because of planned obsolescence (slow down/battery problems etc.)

it's such a stark contrast from growing up in the 90s/early 2000s

  • thisismyrealname [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    using the web seems to be a worse and worse experience every year

    google (and duckduckgo tbh) either can't or won't bother to do anything about all of the SEO'd content mill sites that churn out completely useless information
    youtube removed dislikes for pretty much no good reason so now it's impossible to tell without watching if a video sucks ass or not
    reddit "refreshed" their site design to some ugly mobile-first bullshit that requires like 10 clicks to view all the posts in a thread
    twitter sign-up-walls their content (AND FUCKS WITH THE BROWSER HISTORY SO ON MY PHONE I CAN'T USE THE ANDROID BACK BUTTON TO CLOSE THE TAB)
    most sites put an obnoxious popup asking you about cookies, especially egregious because 90% of them host only static content and shouldn't have any fucking cookies to begin with
    no i don't want to install your app, fuck off

    • Weedian [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      You can get YouTube dislikes back with a Firefox extension, the Twitter thing drove me nuts too but I found out if you hit sign in on the popup you can close it when it shows you the login window

    • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      most sites put an obnoxious popup asking you about cookies

      Only because the EU started forcing them to do it. They used to just use the cookies without warning or asking.