The internet in 2025 is a nightmare

- UIs/UXes are absolute shit these days, and loaded with dark patterns to make you do all the things you DON'T want to do. Other times, it's a jumpy mess and all around the UX is designed to be combative and not pleasant or user friendly.

- On that note, UI/UX in genera have become a lot more patronizing to it's users in recent years.

- I attempted to create an account on Time Extention to comnent on an article about a video game, only to have a vague "There was a problem creating your account", after they had gotten my e-mail address. Other people are having the same problem going back at least a year, and the comnents section on that site seems very sparse. The only logical conclusion is that they are slirping up e-mail addresses to sell to spammers, and they allow just enough accounts to actually go through in an attempt to not raise suspicions.

- I can't post a comment to YouTube without leaving an incognito version of the site open just to check and recheck that my comment was not instantly swallowed up by an AI bot that randomly gets offended over completely benign words or phrases. Of course it started with "stop bullying" and then it rapidly encompassed everything else, including speaking out of step from the subscribed political narrative of Google.

- Everything is an "app" these days. Despite the web browsers being able to do everything an app can do, it's always "get the app, get the APP". But this is really about control, and being able to prevent user behaviors such as copy and paste to save information for later.

- Everything must be infused with AI, whether people actually want this crap or not. And this is being pushed into phones, and desktop computers whether people want it or not.

- Companies are really pushing the "you will own nothing and be happy" narrative. Try buying a console game, or even buying a new car without it "phoning back to the mothership". It's all about control and microtransactions for everything, and the all important remote shutdown button that they control.

- We are forced to "trust" companies that continue to abuse their customers, and this "trust" is enforced with DRM and other high tech locks, whips, and chains.

- And on that note. "You are the product". Not a customer, not a human being, just a PRODUCT.

- "Competing" companies always move in lockstep with each other when it comes to abusing customers, and squeezing people for every bit of 'value' they have. Every bad and rotten idea is eagerly adopted. And there is no "go somewhere else" worth a damn. They got the whole market in a chokehold.

- You can't buy any new high tech product these days that isn't tied to "the Cloud". That security system you spent thousands of dollars on? All junk overnight when the company decides to pull the plug. That product that you control with a phone app and WIFI? Controlled by "the cloud" too.

All of this madness was warned about decades ago by people who know about technology and corporations, but people just laughed at them and told them "that will never happen". Get ready for "You will own nothing and be happy". Be a mindless naive and overly trusting clown and laugh about this too, like you did when you were warned 20 years ago about the coming DRM and remote company controlled kill switches on your bought and paid for devices.

Just be sure to wear that big grin when you finally own nothing and are told to be happy about it.

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anonymous Computers August 03, 2025 at 9:44 pm 0 0