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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It is endlessly frustrating that companies have universally decided that they won't let people say "no" to stuff, ever. There are no longer options to reject stupid-ass new "features", only postponement until next time you open the app/website/program. They'll continue pestering you for the rest of your life. I realize that my frustration may be a little over-zealous, but we deal with these interfaces dozens of times per day and this is user hostile behavior. There isn't really an option to just use another service or program, since the entire technology landscape has been commandeered by a few major corporations, and they all enact the same shitty things as a group.

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[–] [email protected] 100 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Yes, the most egregious one that really grinds my gears is on the front page of YouTube, where it will show a shelf with YouTube shorts with an X top right. If you click it, it will hide the shelf and say "Okay, we'll hide shorts for 30 days" which is something no body would ever mean by pressing that button and it's such patronizing, insidious bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I freaking hate Shorts, and the persistence with which YouTube attempts to shove that crap down your throat is absolutely infuriating.

YouTube also recently made the thumbnails larger, which is also really bad as it makes it more difficult to see what videos are in your subscription feed (even moreso with all the shorts clogging it up).

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Apparently it's where the real money is. People doom-scrolling through an endless stream of crap.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been watching shorts lately and now EVERYTHING is about shorts. I don't ever get the little x anymore to remove the annoying fucking shelf anymore. Why does all this shit have to suck so much.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Same. I wish it wasn't there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

TikTok makes tons of dollaroos with shorts, now Google wants a slice of the pie. "Me too, me too". It would be funny if it wasn't so annoying.

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