Submitted 1 day ago by dotslashme@infosec.pub to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
Anyone else ever noticed how there is no longer an option to permanently reject or completely disable an option anymore?
Every 3 weeks I get a popup in MS teams (yeah I know, but it’s for work, nothing I can do about it), that asks me if I want to pin the AI agent tab and the only option is yes please or remind me later. What the actual fuck is this shit?
YouTube is also guilty of this behavior. Every month it’s “got it, we’ll show you fewer shorts”. Zero. I want zero.
You can remove them with custom uBlock rules:
www.youtube.com##:matches-path(/)a#thumbnail[href*="/shorts"]:upward(7) www.youtube.com##:matches-path(/)a#endpoint[title*="Shorts"]
I wish I had the permissions to install ad blocks on my work laptop. On the plus side, the kids I work with are learning that ads are to be disliked. When an ad interrupts something we’re watching, I go “booo.” Now one of my students does it, too.
At least I can consider it a form of inoculation - gotta teach ‘em young to resist the ever-present brainwashing attempts advertisements.
Youtube is worse. If you click “dont recommend this (far-right rage-baiting) channel” it says okay, and then leaves you alone for perhaps a week.
After, right back to square one as that channel is in your recommended feeds
Your clicks say no, but your algorithm is telling me yes. 😘
Have tried to exterminate Jordan Peterson recommendations for years to no avail.
I’ve never gotten any right wing recommendation. There’s something you’re watching that makes that recommendation happen.
Really? I have managed to completely block a few channels from getting recommended, including one I didn’t want to block. Annoying thing is there’s no way to manage these blocks, only remove all of them at once.
Modern internet is impossible to use without a copious amount of plugins. Every website has some fucking cancer that needs to be removed in order for a site to be even remotely useful.
I wonder if YouTube lets these plugins through because it doesn’t want to attract antitrust suits
They know it’s addictive, and they’ve designed it that way on purpose.
Does Microsoft understand consent?
a) No b) Nope c) Fuck no lol
a) Yes.
b) Ask again in 15 days 3 hours.
If a software monopoly that is too large and important to society to be dismantled or avoided, and it uses that power to abuse its users and defy regulation, shouldn’t that company be nationalized?
Could you imagine if YouTube was nationalized and then the govt shutdown and utube traffic controllers stopped coming to work because they weren’t getting paid
Youtube nationalized, gov shutdown, and everyone starts uploading porn and movies because all the moderators stopped coming to work.
You don’t have to apologize for teams. Everyone knows nobody uses it for fun. Only work.
True, it was more of a parry for the inevitable dont-use-teams-comment
I knew you were going to use Microsoft as an example. They’re very rapey in behaviour.
Would you like to receive my penis?
Yes.
Ask me again in 2 hours.
I’ve been listening to way too many Behind the Bastards podcasts in a row this week, but, apparently, Peter Thiel’s pick for the antichrist is a nebulous finger point towards the anti-AI movement.
All of it, the data centers going up faster than a fireworks tent on fire combined with decreased regulation and the dismantling of democracy reads as pure Thiel.
In short, this AI crap isn’t going away anytime soon.
Can we all get together across the country and burn down as many data centers as humanly possible? Seriously, just a wave of wires across the country.
If local city council representation would simply vote with the wishes of their voters, then we would have no data centers.
These people are guilty of fraudulent representation and should be recalled.
The problem here is that some datacenters are useful, and most of the companies that are poising our minds, the internet, and the planet, are also doing some good thing that society kind of depends on.
This is textbook enshittification.
I heard the term waay before i understood the word came into being because someone wrote a book about the phenomenon that didn’t have a name yet. Somehow i assumed this was a phenomenon that existed forever, instead of a few decades.
Thats been a thing for many years.
I’ve suddenly been getting regular Windows notifications from Adobe asking me to set them as the default PDF app.
Very annoying when I use Adobe reader once a month or so to sign documents.
It’s up to the OS, software or web app and I’m happy to report that not all of them do this.
But I have noticed that on Win11 this seems to be the standard. On those rare occasions. Particularly funny (not really) if they’re phrased in such a way that you really have to think which specific kind of temporary rejection you choose.
It stopped popping up for me after a while.
This is news?
I’ve been on Linux for the past 30 years or so, so yes it’s kind of new to me.
tanisnikana@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If a human being tried consent this way, they’d be a sex offender.
besselj@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
“Got it, I’ll send you fewer unsolicited dick pics”
lauha@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Did you mean “Got it, amount of dickpicks won’t increase as much this much”
KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Silicon Valley has always been run by rapists, so that checks out :)