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.
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#12everyone seems mad these days
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#13I 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.
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#14Delightfully 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.
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#15The only way to win is to not play.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
for a good reason. everything is enshittified and most of the global economy is just financial engineering
> 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? :)
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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? :)
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#18While I agree with the sentiment, technically you can always fill in the username password via the password manager now (at least on iOS).
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#19While I agree with the sentiment, technically you can always fill in the username password via the password manager now (at least on iOS).
Some people don’t use the iOS password manager to accommodate a diverse tech ecosystem. As such,
> 1Password can not fill the web form of the in app browser
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#20While I agree with the sentiment, technically you can always fill in the username password via the password manager now (at least on iOS).
Some people don’t use the iOS password manager to accommodate a diverse tech ecosystem. As such, > 1Password can not fill the web form of the in app browser
Oh my bad. I was convinced it worked with any password manager, but I verified and it does indeed works only with the iOS password manager.