I think we should make our own Classic Google Search now, with black jack and hookers, like the good old times.
Yes, classic google did have hookers too.
There, that's my whole opinion.
Most egregious AI bubble enshittification yet. Good thing I finished my final projects last week, because Google absolutely demolished their plans.
I was already on the fence about switching to Claude, but this is the final nail in the coffin. There’s already massive backlash, but the odds they’ll roll this back are slim to none.
Lovely workmanship here!
Now it has filler, dye, and sulfites...won't be buying this brand again. And vinegar is now third ingredient instead of second.
I use the reddit mobile site and have to dismiss the "View in Reddit App" every 1-3 clicks I make. I had to do it three times just to make this post. Even if all I want to do is look at a photo I have to do this, because as you can see, the post itself is greyed.
Now, since a couple of days ago, I also have to click "Read more" on every text post. If I clicked into it, surely I want to read it, right?! And if I'm not interested after the first sentence or two I'll just go back. Why is this necessary?
I’m not against having mods. I think mods who think carefully about what they’re doing can be a good thing.
I’m also not against having some rules. No bigotry, no doxxing, no threats, that kind of thing.
But I am opposed to stupid rules.
And I suspect that certain mods target people by making up *new* stupid rules, so they can ban those people.
I just joined this subreddit this morning.
The second I clicked 'join,' I received this pop-up.
Please tell me this is a joke.
Definitely not the cheapest journey and has a ridiculous travel time due to a break in services overnight meaning a long wait in the early hours of the morning.
Also, notice how one of the "pm"s is cut off in the top journey? They switched from 24-hour to 12-hour time display and sometimes the am/pm is cut off on all times, and as the displayed journeys are not always restricted to the times you've selected and sometimes wrap around to the next day, you can have no idea if you're looking at a 7pm departure or a 7am-the-next-day departure. (Add rant that some routes really do stop that early in the evening, even on weekends).
My friend sends me Facebook videos. I'm not logged into Facebook and I'm using a PC browser to view them.
The video loads and begins to autoplay but there's a huge box floating above the video that says "See more on Facebook". There's a login box and a QR code, but the video is already playing and I can't see it until I click the cross in the top right corner to get rid of it.
I've now missed the first 5-10 seconds of the video but it's still playing with the sound off. It takes me a few seconds to locate the mute button in the top right corner.
I want to go back and see what I've missed but I can't as there's NO FUCKING SEEK BAR!! I can't rewind, I can't skip ahead. I can play, pause or reload but when I reload I get the "See more on Facebook" shit again.
My friend sends me an Instagram video but I can't see it as I'm not logged in. I log in. The video plays automatically but with the sound off. I go to unmute it but the control is somewhere on the screen (not in the same place as the Facebook video) and when I eventually find it I can't rewind or skip ahead as there's NO FUCKING SEEK BAR again.
Now Youtube has also gone down this road. On Reddit there are embedded Youtube videos and you used to be able to click on them and you'd be able to maximise them and still have access to the seek bar and other useful things like changing the quality setting. I have gigabit broadband but they play at 360p only now the only way I can change the quality setting is to watch the video on Youtube instead of embedded on Reddit.
The seek bar IS NOT THERE AT ALL when you're in full screen mode. Instead you have to un-fullscreen the playback and then you get the seek bar back.
Why are all the main sites doing this?
I'm old enough to remember the days of RealPlayer and Quicktime and for a while Flashplayer seemed to be a big improvement. Then they killed Flash and had HTML-based video players and everything seemed good. But for some reason enshittification just seems to be a deliberate ploy by big tech to drive me round the bend.
A new low and a brutal reminder that we are the product.
