...and they don't believe you? I have a few accounts, reddit, slashdot, etc, but i'd hardly call them social media.

Turn it off in any Android app, it disappears until the next day and now the icon is back even though the setting is still set. The only company that does AI more intrusively is Adobe.

This is the problem. Especially in tech, everyone is "disabled". Every single one has a multitude of self diagnosed disorders that make them the star of their own special show.

It's not woke if it's relevant to the plot. Gamer's problems with "woke" in games are when they center a game around a black samurai or some other intrusive inclusion that doesn't make sense and takes you out of the gameplay. If your game is super fun, then NPCs start lecturing you about pronouns, it's not as fun anymore. People just want some distraction from modern life, modern politics, etc, then don't want it shoehorned into their recreational activities.

...maybe if they stopped shoehorning it into every crevace of their products, people wouldn't actively hate it. Opened outlook for mobile today and there's a new fucking copilot button at the bottom, taking up room, the only color icon on the bar, completely useless and out of place. I open Acrobat and have to click multiple nag windows every week to get rid of AI pitches and other assorted bullshit. AI could be helpful, but to most people it's intrustive, privacy invasive and like a 24/7 advertisement you can't escape.

I had T-Mobile from my first RAZR flip phone when every part of their service sucked except the customer service. Kept it for 20 years, most of those on a grandfathered unlimited plan that was so old, it didn't appear in their system and I couldn't add a new line. Went and shoved me onto some dopey new plan that would have been fine but for the increase in price and I've been on Fi ever since. Sometimes it's best to just not fuck with customers that pay you reliably without any complaint.

I thought about subscribing to Apple TV but it turns out, you need a smart TV or apple streaming device. I'm not buying a one off apple doohickey just to stream a few shows. I guess they will soon allow their content via Prime Video, but by now, I've gotten used to ignoring all news of apple tv shows.

...put a photo of my kids online. If they want to post their baby pictures when they turn 18, great. I can't imagine being an adult and having my entire childhood up there for any old person to see, completely without my permission.

Reveal Codes....that was what it was! Word has had some neutered version of it but it never worked.

...when Word fucks up my formatting and there's some secret, hidden format that I can't hide and I have to rage quit and delete all my text and start over, I reach for that view formatting setting that was in WP and it's not there.

We quit last year. No more good phone deals and we could feel this coming. My plan was literally 20 years old and they wouldn't give me an phone discounts. Now pay the same for twice the lines on Fi.

I'm amazed at how unprepared Google is to repair their own products. Wife has washed my Series A buds twice. Both times the case was destroyed but the buds still worked and no replacement case is available. Have to buy from EBay instead. More irritating, it would take about $0.05 of gaskets to seal the USB port and charging pogos and the case would be as waterproof as the buds.

Except...reddit's business model relies on user submitted content and free user supplied moderation. Many of these moderators use third party apps to moderate. It seems reddit is in the very position you are warning about.

In Santa Barbara, the local Alexa team recently renovated and moved into the building that used to house JC Penny...

It's not just media aggregators though. Even Amazon which has displaced countless competitors censors many buyers for arbitrary rules such as "too negative". They keep a list of accounts banned from reviewing items on reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/TheGr... They are even worse to sellers who depend on the site for their livelihoods.