Mine is that the useState hook is an actual plague on the entire React ecosystem. Regardless of your opinions of React, if you wanna use something then use it right.
Mine is that the useState hook is an actual plague on the entire React ecosystem. Regardless of your opinions of React, if you wanna use something then use it right.
A lot of what people hate about Windows 11 is 10 years too early, especially when it comes to use of web components as interface
The Internet was always going to end up like this, attempts at “small, tight-knit, communities” will only last for a few years at most
Google has done more for web standards than the open source community ever could
The next mobile OS should abandon apps
Even if you did truely own your games, you would still be unhappy
You don’t like personalised advertising not because it feels invasive, but because you’re scared of being predictable and\or manipulable.
I’d say a niche subset of people have legitimate complaints now that will be inevitably turn out to be worse for more people in that 10yr timeline.
Motivated Trailblazers -> Second Wave -> Everyone Else. You could try and gatekeep or segregate but yeah I think you’re right, if you open something up to everyone then you get… everyone lol.
Ultimately yes, but that’s a distinction without a difference imo. Being invasive wouldn’t bother anyone either if there is no follow-up action. Predictions leading to repercussions or manipulation is the follow-up action no one wants. If there were some magic button that assured me the data they gathered was strictly used (by them) to better sell me their product I’d just consider it the cost of the free internet. Nowadays though, there’s simply no telling where that data will end up or what it will be used for; businesses, data brokers, insurance companies, political think tanks, government agencies, etc. None of those entities were there for the original “transaction”, nor are they really even incentivized to keep my data private or secure. Hell, 99% of the time I don’t even know they exist, but I’m supposed to be ok with the whole setup because they flash a shiny widget at me every once in awhile?
I appreciate the properly spicy response to the prompt! This is a lot of unpopular opinions.
I’ll note the same technology that allows you to target individuals for legit products also enables you serve malvertising to seniors, or identify people seeking specific medical services like an abortion.
I’m totally with you that targeted ads and data collection are used maliciously. But I can’t stand those who think their civil liberties are violated because they searched for “Toasters” and The Internet thought they might like to buy a toaster.
Yeah if you check my recent comment history you’ll see me arguing with some people around making targeted advertising illegal or at least more heavily regulated. I tried to share what I know and didn’t get any constructive feedback.
I like independent web publishers vs social platforms, sorry that’s how they get paid for the most part 🤷
Nah, personalized advertising is the slimy salesperson who pretends to be your best friend from back in high school. It’s acting like there’s a very close personal relationship using privileged information. If it were a human, it would be the creepiest and most uncomfortable conversation you could ever have.
No, I specifically don’t like targeted advertising because it’s invasive.
If it was an individual following you around learning what you do and what you like/want, you could charge them with stalking. But because it’s not just one person, it’s a multi-billion dollar company working for a privacy invading industry, it’s suddenly OK?
Go fuck yourself.
The stalker is trying to intimidate or harass me for their own personal ends. People are bad, companies are in for profit.
The company will try and sell me more toilet paper because they know I have diarrhea. The multimillion dollar corporation is spying on me to make line go up. The thing people actually get angry about is the predictive ad which feel like it removes their autonomy.
The thing people forget when they get an personalised ad is that they are not the main character. Their behaviour is similar to others and the in the end the feeling that actions, even benign ones, can be predicted gets people upset.
It’s like the guy today complaining that his TV is always listening to him. Yes, because Samsung can make a few cents for putting a Domino’s ad on the TV when the word pizza is said. Oh but that means someone could access hundreds of thousands of hours of recordings! Of people talking in front of their TV. Of Hundreds of thousands of people. Oh but someone could access the recordings of my voice, determine a close family member, make a voice clone and get them to give them money!
I dunno, romance scammers seem to do just fine and that even works on people with 50 year old TVs.
I prefer to refer to it as contributing to the PornHub Year in Review.
Negative, it is the farther reaching effects of this data-mining hellscape that bothers me.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/
It’s not a matter of my autonomy being removed, it’s a matter of privacy. Full stop. This is the very first time in human history where people’s lives aren’t private. Your attention is a commodity traded on the open market, whether you want to be or not. And that’s the part I have a problem with.
Today, it’s being too aggressive marketing to pregnant teens. Tomorrow, it’s your insurance company buying your advertising profile, analyzing your past shopping habits to determine that you’re at a high risk for Chron’s Disease, and jacking your rates up over it.
You said it yourself, the line must go up. It’s not just about charging fair prices for goods and services, it’s about separating people from as much money as possible, by any means necessary.
Data aggregation can be weaponized against you. How many times do you think people struggling to make ends meet get shown ads for predatory loans? Or gambling addicts getting shown sports betting ads?
In the days of AI chatbots, is this really a far fetched idea? Just pipe the data into an AI and tease anything useful you possibly can out of it. The computers handle the raw data processing, you just collect what comes out the other end.
After all, the line must go up.
I don’t know I’m pretty happy to have archival copies of all my games and other media nowadays. It’s a huge improvement knowing my library is never going to shrink or change unless I choose it.
Part of problem is that being able to keep a copy of a game indefinitely doesn’t mean you “own” it. You just have a (revokable) license to use it within the conditions of the license, as with almost all software you use and media you consume.
When companies say you don’t own games, they mean this: you’ve never owned games you bought.
I’m aware. And yeah I don’t even own them and already it’s so much better—just having possession of the files.
It would be even better if my access to my media couldn’t be revoked technically or legally!
And also nothing from that software agreement promises they’ll replace it if you damage the disk or if the console breaks. It is, and has always been in many ways, a loan.
That’s OK I’d rather be responsible for my copy. It’s all digital in my case, so easy to keep backups squirreled away.
I don’t carte what the interface is programmed with as long as it runs smoothly. But what i hate most is that settings that used to exist are just gone and you have to edit the registry or install 3rd party software to get them back. Also everything go so ‘simplified’ that it now takes 5 clicks for things that used to take 2.
As with any platform that grows. Reddit used to feel like this. Now it’s lemmy. Or your small niche Discord-server. Those places will always exist. They either grow and change until they’re not what they used to be, or they die out.
Gotta give that to you. BUt we need to always be wary of monopolization.
What do you mean with ‘apps’. Should it not have a clock? Or a calendar? Sorry, I’m just confused what you suggest instead.
But I’d be unhappy with my games safe and secure :)
I know I am manipulable (thanks for the word btw); I am not afraid of that. I also know my personal data is only fed into an amalgamation of different algorithms and never even seen by humans who could judge me based on my preferences. I just hate that it actually works.
Categories are hard and everyone began searching for settings.
Yes, web communities are always growing and changing. Can people let things change (sometimes for the worse) without always interpreting as some sort of personal attack? It’s exhausting.
Yes, true, but consortiums and defacto standards are the only way these things can exist in the first place.
I should have said it better, no 3rd party apps, just 3rd party inteegrations. You want WhatsApp? Cool. Add it to the “messages” app as an account. You want a calendar? Sure it’s got one. You want it to talk to a different calendar? Sure, what’s the ics address? You want your music player to support a weird file type? Sure, add a codec. You want an app that does something I haven’t thought of? Cool, make it a PWA.
Yes, preservation and backing up is important, but I’d rather just take on private equity. I don’t have time for live services anyway.
People spent the whole 90’s and most of 2000’s complaining that computers were being shoved onto them and they didn’t work. They’ve incrementally gotten better and now people hate that it does work.
When you’ve killed all the bad guys, and when it’s all perfect and just and fair, when you have finally got it exactly the way you want it, what are you going to do with the people like you? The troublemakers. How are you going to protect your glorious revolution from the next one?