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submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Can't wait to graduate so I don't have to run Respondus and keep dealing with this crap

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[-] [email protected] 185 points 5 months ago

This whole rapey lingo needs to fucking die already.

No means no, corporations. Not “maybe later”, not “remind me later”…it’s a yes or a no.

Every company does it now and I’m sick to death of it. Even for the free trials like YouTube Premium. I don’t want your fucking shit. Leave me alone.

[-] [email protected] 78 points 5 months ago

YouTube shorts are my latest annoyance. They give you an x to hide it then says we'll try again in 30 days. Shorts were a dumb idea on vine, a dumber idea on tiktok, and just about the dumbest idea on YouTube. If I wanted a sub-30 second clip I'd watch a gif.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago

I don't think shorts are bad, but they aren't the reason I go to YouTube at all. They are just in the way.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

I wouldn't even mind them as much if they showed you who posted the short before you watched it. There are a few creators I like enough that I'd watch shorts by, but I've got no way to know it's by them

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I like short form content too, but not on my longer form content website. And I wouldn't want ten minute videos on my movie service.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I agree. Shorts are just a way for me to discover new creators when I'm on the toilet since my recommendations page sucks now and never recommends new creators to me.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Collaberations and word-of-mouth are the main ways I find new creators, the algorithm sucks at understanding the finer points.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I would argue that they were a good idea on Vine. It allowed them to stay away from other platforms.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 5 months ago

The other annoying thing they (esp. MS) do is pop up messages like "The whole process of saving files has changed while you were asleep [learn more][got it]" and here, when you need it, there's never an option for "remind me later". So you either have to stop what you're doing and go and read a massive blog entry that's not actually relevant to the task in hand or you need to dismiss the message and never be able to find it when it's actually relevant

[-] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago

Linux/FreeBSD and piracy are like the only way to mostly avoid this crap now lol.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Which will make you see it anyway in any consumer product or service other than the computer OS.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

There's at all plenty one can do with FOSS stuff without needing to resort to that, but ya, in geraral that's true

[-] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago

Every shopping site now wants you to sign up for some kind of discount or offer as well.

Instead of "No thanks" or "No, I don't want to subscribe", the reject button always says "No, I want to pay full price" or "No, I don't like savings" and other manipulative bs.

Makes me not want to shop there.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

And a lot of them don't even wait for you to find something to buy, you just show up and it's "HEY DO YOU WANT A DISCOUNT?"

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This whole rapey lingo needs to fucking die already.

Maybe widely name-calling this practice for what it is could help steer companies away from this disgusting pattern.

Should we start refering to pop-ups that give no option to say "no" as something like "rape-ups"?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I've also felt the "impossible to say no" lingo is awful. "remind me later" fuck off

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

We need a community! I am really annoyed by this, it is rapey and gaslighting and abusive. Another one they started to do is "You are almost finished with your updates", updates that i didn't request nor allow.

We need words, customized pitchforks and a leader to recover dignity!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

There's already one. it's called the linux community

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

It is not only Windows, it is common in all apps, but i get the point

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yes! It really is that. Just like how so many men are taught to never take "no" as an answer from a woman, and to keep pestering her until she gives in.

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