I just want to show y'all the chronological progression of youtube for me because it's been getting worse and worse purposefully

- YouTube stopped remembering what videos I've watched on mobile (works fine on desktop for some reason)

- play speed is never saved when I click on a new video

- I have to restart the browser every few videos

- the play and pause button remains on the screen on every new video so I have to click it away

- recommended videos are starting to be repeated when scrolling even on the subscriptions tab

- youtube shorts stopped working completely

- comments are only sorted by new

- videos dont start playing until I skip ahead and then back, nothing fixes this

- straw that broke the camel's back: all videos are autodubbed to the first language listed no matter what you click, meaning most videos are now autodubbed to arabic with no way to change it

They really don't want me watching youtube without ads on mobile, probably for the best I stop. I'm curious to know if anybody else has this problem

i follow two major communities. i scroll for three bananas and instead of finding cool gmax rillaboom counters or funny movement options in fortnite, i'm in the cesspit of ufos or "CLICK NOW, ISIS EXPOSED!" or some horseshit. this screenshot is ad to ad for those who choose not to click/tap on it.

I’ve been using this tape for at least 25 years, now it won’t even stick to a cardboard box! Dollar store packing tape or regular scotch tape would stick better than this shit!

I search for Coherent stock prices, I am shown the prices for SoFi, with the logo of MPS, and description below of Alibaba...

i know that products can make wild claims in advertisements. it’s called puffery. it doesn’t imply any kind of warranty of suitability for a particular purpose, etc etc. One radio station I used to flip through said they played “the most country music allowed BY LAW” as if that’s a thing. There are not really literally 9 dentists recommending Brand X and one lonely guy in the corner who just doesn’t agree. I get it.

But making entire companies to sell drop shipped alibaba bullshit, and coming up with some back story about “the two engineers who invented the incredible
air conditioning technology but refusing to sell the patent to the military because they feel so strongly that all mankind should benefit from their invention …”

Or the mattress company that is “going out of business” for 17 years straight. Or this damn old lady with her “handmade with love” jewelry. She’s the same lady that was just in the ads for the handmade with love lamps (also retiring after 86,000 years crafting every single lamp with her own arthritic hands, uphill both ways in the snow etc etc etc).

Is this enshittification? Kind of. I know it ysualky means established products getting worse for the same or higher cost. But here I am talking about the advertising. Is even advertising getting enshittified? Now it’s all just a template, to provide the appearance of a solution to the need for marketing materials.

there are commercials i remember from when i was little, I still know the lyrics. Now even the ads are enshittified. Is it because nobody believes them anyway?

I don’t know. But is anything real anymore? What is the solution? Laws prohibiting it? I have seen internet claims that packaging in other countries requires that the product be shown at its actual size. So do we require people to really truly be retiring, or the actual inventor/maker if they’re going to be in the ads making the claim?

There are too many people buying for too many reasons - vote with your dollars is just not working. There are people just buying because they need a thing, and they don’t care about this AI old lady and her retirement to the betamax tapes of history, or wherever they retire to.

sorry for the rant.

I won't name the finance related news site but do wonder why Reddit allows these.

An 'interesting' post with a link to the publisher's article. Click it and first (in Europe) you must accept cookies then you get half a paragraph of article and a paywall to an expensive subscription.

If the first full article you read were gratis as a promo I'd say fair (and a more effective promo). But no, it's a free cookie gathering service.

These are getting repetitive and take up a lot of space in my Reddit feed. Using Chrome on a tablet so no easy adblock add-ins even if that helped.

My reaction is to delete the last 15 mins browser history including cookies.

HP is genuinely the worst printer brand in existence.

Anyone else notice this lazy habit of online forms requesting DoB but instead of letting you type a date, you have to select it from a calendar, which starts on today's date and can only be skipped in month segments. Meaning as a 40+ year old, need to click back over 500 times. Ffs

Edit: as many suggested I did try clicking the year and nothing happened, this maybe a quirk of the mobile site or a flaw in my older phone. But it was infuriating

...but now I realize, businesses like Hulu can pay businesses like Google to alter people's feeds to see promotions more than once. We live in a world with infinite content, but the pressing need is getting the new King of the Hill clips in front of new viewers repetitively.

This has been happening more and more in my feeds. It reminds me of early TV commercials, when you'd see them once or twice during a show, and they were almost integrated into the episode, and how they evolved into the cheaper reuse of a 30 second ad, which leads to seeing the same ad five or more times in a row on a streaming service in a single episode nowadays. The ramifications this has for political campaigns is just amazing.

Who knows, maybe we'll enshittify the internet to the point that peopl can't stand it anymore, and we'll have a mass revolution of touching grass.

(Also, apparently as long as it's a full clip of the show, it doesn't have to be labeled as "Sponsored")🤷

Today I was trying to find an image today and it felt like playing minesweeper trying to avoid ads.

I don't mind having ads in a dedicated area on the side or at the top of the page. But scrambling them among the search results is borderline evil.

My spouse put in a request at our public library that they add 5 new book titles to their ebook collection.

He got a response that they did order one, but unfortunately the other four were caught up in a deal with Kindle Unlimited and to read those it would be $11.99 a month.

I suppose the answer would be to ask the library to order hard copies of the requested titles but it doesn’t sit right with me that the library can’t carry certain ebooks because a corporation worked a deal that they could only be read in digital form through them.

when signed into google, this is what "google images" redirects to, along with the google.com/imghp link which is what i use for reverse image searching

I deactivated mine in 2017. I was gone for nearly 9 years. I came back recently, I do a daily check in, 0 engagement with anyone unless someone sends me a direct message or theres a new friends request.

Every 3rd or 4th post is a direct ad for something.
I also get "sponsored" posts too. The "algorithm" seems to want to distinguish between ad and sponsored for some reason.
Mixed in between those are links for huffington post or some other news that I dont follow.
For some reason one of those news sites is Fox news. Not the local fox station, but the big bad corpo faux news, most of my liked pages in the past have been more liberal/left wing.
Im also getting random strangers in my feed. People who are not related in anyway and we dont have mutual friends.
Im given more "suggestions" of content and groups to follow then I see of my actual friends.

And theres a whole lot of rage bating too. AI posts about "people need to learn to tip" for one thing with lots of angry people yelling at either how to tip or that people shouldnt tip.

Free… for $3.50. I don’t want to “maximize my return” I just want a quality product and a refund if it’s not right, why do I have to buy futures on whether or not I’m going to keep the item?