Mastodawn

Cogito ergo mecagoendios Mar 5, 2024

I just saw a toot explaining a useful "youtube fixer" firefox add on that removes "for you..." and "people also search..." from search results.

This made me realize how far we have come the wrong way: we are now in THE AGE OF ADVERSARIAL FEATURE DESIGN. Product creators introduce anti-features to attempt to divert user attention AWAY from what they want. Users are captive to the ecosystem because the software USED TO BE useful, and they actively have to block against new features to keep it so.

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@elrohir See also every new "automatic update" for Windows or, really any commercial software. They got in the door with "you need automatic updates so we can protect you against dangerous bugs and recently-discovered hack vulns" and now they just go "It's a Thursday, bend over and spread your butt cheeks because this is our day to ram you with this week's undesired reaming."