Got this notification when I opened Chrome when coming back to my desk after lunch.

“We changed our privacy settings to allow us to snoop on what you’re looking at and shove you ads accordingly. Feel free to opt out, but we’ll probably opt you back in when you aren’t paying attention.”

  • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
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    1 year ago

    small incremental changes over the years felt like nothing big was happening and then at some point we all woke up

    I (and many others I presume) has been saying Chrome is shit since the beginning. It didn’t feel like nothing was happening, it felt like we were slowly getting to the old days of IE and Netscape.

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      1 year ago

      There are always a few that see this stuff coming, but they usually get looked at like a crazy person shouting about the sky falling.

      It also feels like they really push a lot of the terrible on mobile first, get people used to concepts with the “that’s just how mobile is, it’s a different world” and then when most are accustomed to it they move to regular pc enshitification.

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        I do not like how websites prioritise the mobile view over desktop view even when it is on a desktop. You have a widescreen and want to waste all that horizontal space? Just ridiculous!

        Yeah yeah, I understand it is less maintenance from a developer point of view, but still it is infuriating as a user.