They tried AI the nice way and nobody gives a shit about it but billions have been spent already so they are tightening the screws to make you use it. This is late stage fuckery and hopefully the whole thing will collapse soon.
this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2025
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Does Microsoft understand consent?
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a) Yes.
b) Ask again in 15 days and 3 hours.
If a human being tried consent this way, they’d be a sex offender.
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You don't have to apologize for teams. Everyone knows nobody uses it for fun. Only work.
True, it was more of a parry for the inevitable dont-use-teams-comment
YouTube is also guilty of this behavior. Every month it's "got it, we'll show you fewer shorts". Zero. I want zero.
You can remove them with custom uBlock rules:
www.youtube.com##:matches-path(/)a#thumbnail[href*="/shorts"]:upward(7)
www.youtube.com##:matches-path(/)a#endpoint[title*="Shorts"]
The internet got a lot less annoying after I learned how to use uBlock Origin's "Enter element picker mode"
I wish I had the permissions to install ad blocks on my work laptop. On the plus side, the kids I work with are learning that ads are to be disliked. When an ad interrupts something we’re watching, I go “booo.” Now one of my students does it, too.
At least I can consider it a form of inoculation - gotta teach ‘em young to resist the ever-present ~~brainwashing attempts~~ advertisements.
I wish I had the permissions to install ad blocks on my work laptop.
Me too, what is up with not having an adblocker or bring able to install one? So many ads pose security issues and not being able to block them is just annoying and unsafe.
Youtube is worse. If you click "dont recommend this (far-right rage-baiting) channel" it says okay, and then leaves you alone for perhaps a week.
After, right back to square one as that channel is in your recommended feeds
I don't have this problem on mobile. I use pipepipe and don't sign in. No shorts. Simple list for subscriptions without signing in. Easily transfers to new phones. No ads.
I find the recommendations in pipe pipe are severely lacking though. How do you find new content?
Ah yes, it's true. I don't use recommendations. People send me videos or I see them on here and go from there. Old school.
Your clicks say no, but your algorithm is telling me yes. 😘
And is programmed by a far right tech bro programmer or apathetic yes-man who answers to one anyways yup.
Shit like this is why freetube exists. Subscribe to the channels you want to see, get only those channels!
Have tried to exterminate Jordan Peterson recommendations for years to no avail.
Really? I have managed to completely block a few channels from getting recommended, including one I didn't want to block. Annoying thing is there's no way to manage these blocks, only remove all of them at once.
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Instagram pulls this shit too. Clicking to block an account counts as engagement, so they throw more of that type of crap at you.
Modern internet is impossible to use without a copious amount of plugins. Every website has some fucking cancer that needs to be removed in order for a site to be even remotely useful.
The best are those websites with 4 ads at once and at least one of them is a video as that auto plays.
Jokes on them, I just close and abandon the article. Fuck that.
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I knew you were going to use Microsoft as an example. They're very rapey in behaviour.
Microsoft rapes us every day.
It's not just Microsoft any more though. Practically any time you have a prompt for something in software/web pages that benefits the company, the only options are 'yes' and 'maybe later'. It's become so ubiquitous that I'm genuinely surprised when a prompt like that actually has a 'no' option.
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Yes.
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Ask me again in 2 hours.
If a software monopoly that is too large and important to society to be dismantled or avoided, and it uses that power to abuse its users and defy regulation, shouldn’t that company be nationalized?
Could you imagine if YouTube was nationalized and then the govt shutdown and utube traffic controllers stopped coming to work because they weren’t getting paid
Youtube nationalized, gov shutdown, and everyone starts uploading porn and movies because all the moderators stopped coming to work.
I’ve been listening to way too many Behind the Bastards podcasts in a row this week, but, apparently, Peter Thiel’s pick for the antichrist is a nebulous finger point towards the anti-AI movement.
All of it, the data centers going up faster than a fireworks tent on fire combined with decreased regulation and the dismantling of democracy reads as pure Thiel.
In short, this AI crap isn’t going away anytime soon.
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At home I'm on Linux but yes I also have a work laptop and I hate windows more and more daily.
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I’ve suddenly been getting regular Windows notifications from Adobe asking me to set them as the default PDF app.
Very annoying when I use Adobe reader once a month or so to sign documents.
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