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Yes and no. It’s objectively true that things like streaming services, food delivery, and online communications got worse not better over time. It’s not true for all things but there are definitely things that simply got worse for profit

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daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
That’s not tech. That’s company policies.

Streaming services, as a tech has evolved and it’s a better technology that it was before. New encoding formats allow for transfer of more data over less bandwidth for instance.

Online communications, as in forums as such, as also evolved with new and better ways of posting, and better security (I remember when websites just stored your password in plain text).

What people complain about are mostly company policies, not technology.

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- formulaBonk@lemm.ee ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Okay counter example, all social media with its black box rightwing feeding rage bait algorithms instead of message boards. It’s all tech, what companies that drive these changes do affects us all in what we can and cannot use. Yes there has been technological progress that’s overall good, but there are many things that are a negative on society. Nobody is blaming the concept of technology… that’s just naive. Obviously the qualm is with the implementation and access to said tech which is necessarily gated and groomed by big corps.
  
  Some more examples:
  
  unsafe touch screens instead of buttons in cars
  
  smart appliances you can’t avoid unless you buy used
  
  forced use of QR codes (stupid levels of unsafe) for payment in what used to be cash businesses
  
  I’m still a big fan of great tech advancement and yes the problem is with companies. Or more precisely, with how much influence these companies have on our choice and access to technologies
  
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