While it is no secret that exploitative practices are interlaced with capitalistic tendencies, the practices are becoming intolerable. Signing up to pay usually takes only two clicks that are prominently visible whereas cancelation options are hidden away in deep settings requiring multiple clicks. Pricing often feel arbitrary with no reference points. Every large company grows with the intention of exhibiting monopolistic behavior. This is not sustainable and should not be tolerated.
should not be tolerated.
Neither should posting YT videos that should’ve been articles
A paragraph’s worth of information stretched into ten minutes? I’ve got way better things to do with my time
JimboDHimbo@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
That’s not even what pisses me off the most about the whole situation. I’m upset that my friends and family don’t care.
asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
gestures to everything else I mean… we are fucking drowning in situations to care about.
JimboDHimbo@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
…fuckkkk. that’s fair.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
But at a certain point, it’s still a cop out. And part of the trick. If you drown anyone in enough bullshit, you can’t expect it to all get called out – but that doesn’t mean it’s not all bullshit. It is divide and conquer in another form.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
And I’ve stopped caring about nearly all of them.
Not really much I can do about it, so why worry?
egeres@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I short of have a theory with this. There’s this belief that “netflix killed piracy” because they provided an actual service with a fair price and the commodity that people wanted to watch shows. And that later on, it got enshittified. But I kinda think that, collaterally, a very important factor that explains people not even knowing how to download a torrent or having 0 critical mind when it comes to the other companies abusing their power has been the surge of smartphones
They were designed to have idiot-proof protection, but more and more they distanced newer generations from having a minimal technical background on how to use computers, which then leads to a more ignorant society incapable of saying no to such companies
I’m not saying this has been the main factor but I have my suspicions to believe it might be related
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 4 weeks ago
This is such a good observation. We all assumed the “digital natives” generation was going to be able to just be hacker-level familiar with technology. And for those who grew up with just PCs, it’s probably true. But the “smartphone native” generation followed so quickly it changed the learning patterns. They understand tech generally and specific apps, but get lost with troubleshooting general problems because computers became appliances.
Scary to think but…Are the same young people who a decade ago was tech support for their parents and grandparents going to have to also do it for their adult children and grandchildren?
JimboDHimbo@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
I would have to agree. Dumb shit like “brand loyalty” probably comes into play as well.
Carighan@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That’s because your perspective is quite skewed if you think about it.
To many many people, being at a level where issues such as “dark patterns in muh apps” is a big thing that might annoy them in their life would be absolute heaven. That means all their big issues are long solved and they got the mental and physical capability spare to worry about such, comparatively menial, issues.
If your health is struggling, whether to accept cookies or not (at least digital ones) is really the least of your worries. Especially given that the vast vast majority wouldn’t know what it means either way, or even why it is a thing that anybody would ever care about. It’s like how you don’t care, until reading this sentence now, which parts of the print of a grocery product packaging inks are biodegradable and which are not and hence whether you should throw that empty cardboard box on your compost heap or actually shouldn’t do that.