Marco ArmentJun 24, 2025

This is a core system app interrupting you, promoting a sale by a movie-ticketing company, to push you to go see the platform vendor’s new movie.

Why not just pop up random ads all the time, always creating new channels that everyone’s opted-into by default so you can never keep up with opting out of them all?

Oh wait, that’s already what happens.

Apple’s as bad as everyone else. They don’t respect their customers — we’re fodder.

They truly have no standards anymore.
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Show threadMarco ArmentJun 24, 2025

I recently read this: https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/

It’s long. Very long. And not every example is perfect.

And it’s also, broadly, very right about what tech has become.

Never Forgive Them

In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might promise. More

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It is over 12,000 words (and a handful of please subscribe pop-ups). It would take me 30 minutes to read probably.

But it’s unfortunate that the bit the link image reveals is ‘I’ve written 20,000 words this year….’

But, yes, from my tl,dr skimming to determine its length, I didn’t see a single point I did not agree with.

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