Recent discussion about the perils of doors in gamedev reminded me of a bug caused by a door in a game you may have heard of called "Half Life 2". Are you sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin.

Excited to announce that Google has apparently made a major enshittification breakthrough! They've actually managed to enshittify *confirmation dialogs*! I cannot overstate how impressive the talented teams behind this at Google are. The key insight was to replace the previous “Allow”/“Disallow" buttons with "Allow”/"See advertisement" buttons. Almost feels embarrassing that we were wasting this monetization opportunity in the past.