I was watching a programme about Nokia which mentioned how Apple came along with its massive touchscreen, which sacrificed battery life and durability i.e. we all now accept that a phone battery will need charging at least every night and if we drop the phone the screen will shatter, which wasn't the case before. There must be tons of these?
My own personal bugbear is how you used to be able to change the TV channel with a remote instantaneously rather than having to wait a couple of seconds after pressing the button and now that's seemingly impossible.
On a larger scale it's probably a backwards step that everyone is expected to have a recent smartphone to conveniently do loads of things (show your boarding pass, or whatever) and shit stops being supported within a few versions. Music compression too. But I guess I'm thinking of specific annoyances that shouldn't even be problems.
I was only half-watching the Nokia programme so please feel free to correct my comprehensive history of Apple there.
― kinder, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 22:14 (four years ago) link
the original gameboy lasted about eight years through new release support and actual durability of the hardware
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 22:17 (four years ago) link
Everybody's landline used to work in a blackout.
― mick signals, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 22:33 (four years ago) link
^^ good one, also you can no longer get DC power from landlines
― sleeve, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 22:34 (four years ago) link
taking the headphone jack away
Audio fidelity/quality was better with landlines too.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 22:39 (four years ago) link
sez you, "Telecom"
― kinder, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 22:41 (four years ago) link
:)
at my gym i have to log in on a giant touch screen to run on the fucking treadmill. the other day it asked me if i wanted to install updates. hl;kjalkjh;asgdhl;kasgd
― cheese canopy (map), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 22:44 (four years ago) link
― kinder, 14. august 2019 00:14 (thirty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Wait, what?
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 22:51 (four years ago) link
oh god please just go away
― cheese canopy (map), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 22:54 (four years ago) link
iPod clickwheel RIP
― Come and Rock Me, Hot Potatoes (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 23:00 (four years ago) link
Audio fidelity/quality was better with landlines too
Right? It used to actually be enjoyable to talk on the phone (not to mention that handsets were much more ergonomic/comfortable/seemed less likely to induce brain cancer), no wonder phone calls seem like an intrusive nuisance now.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 23:06 (four years ago) link
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/08/the-us-navy-says-no-to-touchscreens-maybe-automakers-should-too/
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 23:06 (four years ago) link
I realized too when I got an iPhone for xmas how much it suffered from an absence of the trackball on my old phone.
― Come and Rock Me, Hot Potatoes (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 23:12 (four years ago) link
The iPad was a bit of a stumble -techno beaver
― calstars, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 23:13 (four years ago) link
remote control thing is a great example. that drives me crazy any time i'm in a hotel or something and just want to enjoy the mindless zone-out of channel surfing. related: TVs coming with "motion smoothing" turned on by default and sometimes with no option to turn it off.* many websites/apps/etc. have gotten slower and junkier as they've added features, loaded up with data-draining graphics and videos and scripts. like, just trying to see what the hourly weather forecast for tomorrow is involves a lot more clicking and waiting than it did a few years ago. google maps is another one that's gotten a lot shittier.* new laptops with only USB-C ports so that to make this sleek, elegant thing fully functional and do basic things you need to buy an expensive dongle and have it hang awkwardly off the apple lust object.* also in general, laptops replacing desktops for a computer that remains at a desk at all times --- massively worse ergonomically and less computer for your money.* not to make this a physical media thread but def all the downsides of the streaming world belong here. but obv there are many tradeoffs.* general trend of offloading labor onto unpaid customers (self check out, surveys, pressure from amazon to answer support questions for products you've bought, etc.).* death of big-budget 2D animation (in hollywood anyway). history is littered with these of course, cf. invention of agriculture and human health/life expectancy/society. or cars replacing transit networks, all of those stories. or at a pettier level, all the changes in shaving since idk the 1960s or 70s.
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 23:26 (four years ago) link
i hung onto my landline for longer than most people and in the early days of cellphones it was infuriating talking to anyone on theirs because the audio quality was terrible. it's better now but still not as good as landlines were.
― visiting, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 23:50 (four years ago) link
the substitution of plastics for paper, cloth, wood, and metal (not as acceptable as it used to be but never more pervasive)
― Brad C., Tuesday, 13 August 2019 23:58 (four years ago) link
Color printer/scanners are a now an everyday cheapish appliance but their rate of malfunction makes them barely worth the trouble. A black and white laserjet that couldn’t scan shit would cost you an arm but you could be sure that sucker would turn out pages for ages, iirc.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 00:02 (four years ago) link
A lot of fast fashion type stuff bugs me, like having to actually look for cotton underwear.
― sarahell, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 00:08 (four years ago) link
as someone who lives in a country where you wear gloves several months out of the year, i daily cursed the engineer who introduced thumbprint unlock as the default on the iPhone
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 00:10 (four years ago) link
the default of ‘pick up your phone and look at it before we reveal the content of a text’ on the iPhone ten also a v stupid idea
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 00:11 (four years ago) link
A black and white laserjet that couldn’t scan shit would cost you an arm but you could be sure that sucker would turn out pages for ages, iirc.
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, August 13, 2019 5:02 PM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Brother still makes products of this caliber and they aren't disturbingly expensive.
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 00:18 (four years ago) link
at a pettier level, all the changes in shaving since idk the 1960s or 70s.
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, August 13, 2019 4:26 PM (fifty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
development of laser hair removal is a big improvement tbh
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 00:19 (four years ago) link
Color printer/scanners are a now an everyday cheapish appliance but their rate of malfunction makes them barely worth the trouble.
Not to be a commercial but after years of having problems with inkjet printers and generally feeling like they were the most unreliable piece of technology in existence, I bought an Epson Eco-tank and it has been life-changing. I actually love my printer now and wouldn’t trade it for anything. 100% reliable, scans and prints great, I haven’t had to refill it yet and I’ve had it for... 2 years? No more of the seemingly constant cartridge replacements. /commercial
― epistantophus, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 00:22 (four years ago) link
Of course, that’s the opposite of what this thread is about.
― epistantophus, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 00:24 (four years ago) link
I just had a 1958 Grundig tube radio repaired, it sounds amazing; finding someone who could work on it was the hard part
it wasn't really so long ago that devices like radios, TVs, stereo components, and even personal computers were designed to be repaired and kept in service for many years; now the same kinds of devices go directly to the landfill as soon as they fail, if not sooner; the fact that the replacement devices are cheaper and more capable than the junked ones is not a particularly impressive sign of progress
― Brad C., Wednesday, 14 August 2019 00:37 (four years ago) link
The loss of institutional knowledge about how to build heavy-duty, reliable liquid propellant rocket systems has had a massive impact on space programs around the world. Now somebody tell me they have a way to get to the moon just fine.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 00:45 (four years ago) link
I’m gonna be really anxious when the time comes to buy a new TV because the one I have has been so good for so long *raps on wooden table*
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 00:47 (four years ago) link
i was curious about buying a new tv - i haven't had one since the mid 90s, a portable black-and-white model from the 80s passed on to me from my parents - and the enormous variations in crazy features and too-good-to-be-credible prices just made me give up
― j., Wednesday, 14 August 2019 00:53 (four years ago) link
I started with the knowledge that I wanted a Sony of a certain size with a certain number of HDMI inputs and went with that, I think?
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 00:59 (four years ago) link
i recently had ceiling fans installed, and we got the ones with lights built in
too late i realised that to turn the lights on and off we now need to fumble around with a dinky battery powered remote
curse a society that no longer understands that light switches should be easy to find in the dark
(also every button press is accompanied by an annoying beeping sound that can't be muted)
― umsworth (emsworth), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 01:00 (four years ago) link
that everything has a remote is ridiculous.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 01:02 (four years ago) link
Wait, I've never turned lights on or off with a battery-powered remote. That is not a backward step I accept!
Landlines, though. Still had one until 2011. I sometimes wonder if I'm the only person who finds it physically difficult to converse satisfyingly on a smartphone.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 01:08 (four years ago) link
i hate talking on the phone now, it makes me antsy and eager to get off the phone. but i don't know if that is something abt the phone itself, or how my expectations and practices around phones have changed, esp thru texting taking the place of calls for almost all the things i used to make calls for. and the ppl on the other end feeling the same way and distracted and eager to get off the phone too.
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 01:24 (four years ago) link
everyone hates talking on the phone now. it's social anxiety and because we have so many job related activities where one is on the phone all the time.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 01:28 (four years ago) link
although my mom still chats away like she is teenager of the year.
It used to be that after CRT and plasma declined, televisions were a forced compromise: backlit LCD or nothing, which suck for watching films (bad shadow levels, motion smoothing, etc etc). I white-knuckled the gap between plasma and OLED by self-repairing my plasma when the power supply failed, and then buying a used plasma which got me through (barely, with lines on the screen and driver failures) just until the OLEDs came down enough for me to consider an end-of-line clearance price.Now of course I have the best TV of my life - it's kind of ironic because my film library is worth probably 5-10 times as much as the screen I watch them on.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 02:05 (four years ago) link
Landlines were easier to have a conversation on because it was in real time. Cellphones have gotten better, but they're still bouncing audio off of metal towers like a pinball machine. Landlines were the technological final product of an evolution that began with two cans and a piece of string, and worked just fine.
I have the same tv remote problem with my microwave.
Are there really cars out there that combat drowsiness by not letting itself drift over any white or yellow line unless the blinker is on?] Because I will lose my shit, that's all there is to it.
― pplains, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 02:45 (four years ago) link
things have gotten a bit better, but even as the early playstation era was happening i remember thinking "wow it sucks that i have to wait 15 seconds for every other screen to load". that was in stark contrast to the near-instant load times of the cartridge based systems at the time and of the recent past.
of course, we were all more than willing to wait as long as it took to gedda load of them polygams
https://i.imgur.com/KKf0O1X.jpg
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 02:49 (four years ago) link
When you buy a new video game and it has to spend an assload of time downloading "updates" before you can play the fucking thing.
Also Denny's getting rid of the Breakfast Dagwood
― i'd rather zing like a man, than FP like a coward (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 04:00 (four years ago) link
“like, just trying to see what the hourly weather forecast for tomorrow is involves a lot more clicking and waiting than it did a few years ago”(since you’re not opposed to using google:) google “(city) weather” once, ctrl+h “wea” for every instance after
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 04:04 (four years ago) link
P much any form of watching tv now.
― i'd rather zing like a man, than FP like a coward (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 04:23 (four years ago) link
Are you guys saying landlines don't sound as good as they used to, or that cellphones don't sound as good as landlines? I agree with the latter, but as for the former, my landline still sounds great. I would never have a conversation on my cellphone unless I was away from home.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 04:30 (four years ago) link
We have a landline so we can put the number on paperwork, and for “just in case.” I think we turned the ringer off two years ago. It sits behind the dehumidifier in our master bedroom.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 04:55 (four years ago) link
xp saying that cellphones don't sound as good as landlines.
― visiting, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 04:56 (four years ago) link
Coca Cola Freestyle machines. Ok...i love em. But...
Soda fountains in the past, usually your biggest problem was the soda came out flat because the bag needed to be changed. So maybe your number one choice isn't available, but other stuff is. Also, multiple people can fill their shit at the same time.
But with these fuckin machines, if you are unlucky enough to go to a store with only one machine, you gotta wait behind the dummy who can't figure it out.
Then when you get there, sometimes they're out of like every diet product, but you don't find out until you click on it and try to pour it, it stops, and greys out.
And then sometimes the shit just malfunctions and nobody in the restaurant knows how to fix it because they gotta call some help line. And if none of the machines work, you gotta wait in kine and get someone at the counter to pour you a drink
― i'd rather zing like a man, than FP like a coward (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 05:23 (four years ago) link
― gyac, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 05:26 (four years ago) link
Oh and inspired by Neanderthal’s post just now! Automated airport bag drops - just an awful scourge and take far more time than having someone check the suitcase and slap the sticker on it for you. Goes double if you’re stuck behind people who are confused by this (naturally). Waited fifteen minutes behind a family checking in three suitcases the other day - there should have been staff to help them.
― gyac, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 05:29 (four years ago) link
^^^ let's get those search results boosted!
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Thursday, 29 February 2024 19:19 (four weeks ago) link
yeah, i had no idea a frogbs blog was out there. link pls.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 29 February 2024 19:22 (four weeks ago) link
Somedays I wish I could take the technological backward step of directory search engines like '90s Yahoo. All the usual caveats about gatekeeping apply, but it'd be nice to look up a topic and see sites by verified humans. But I suppose that's not feasible now that so much of the web is no longer "handmade".
― blatherskite, Thursday, 29 February 2024 19:40 (four weeks ago) link
it's on my website url on ILX!! what are you telling me nobody checks those!???
https://critterjams.wordpress.com/
― frogbs, Thursday, 29 February 2024 19:46 (four weeks ago) link
No offense to frogs, but websites with social media icons that only lead to facebook.com or instagram.com, not to any actual profile pages.
They're likely thrown with the template, but why throw them in there at all in the first place?
― pplains, Thursday, 29 February 2024 20:46 (four weeks ago) link
it's on my website url on ILX!! what are you telling me nobody checks those!???https://critterjams.wordpress.com/― frogbs
― frogbs
i absolutely don't check those
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 29 February 2024 20:49 (four weeks ago) link
It's multiple layers of awful that the only way to reliably find real people talking about something is to add site:reddit.com to the search string.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 29 February 2024 20:54 (four weeks ago) link
― pplains, Thursday, February 29, 2024 2:46 PM (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I just had to pick a new template because the old one was doing something very annoying, I didn't even realize they were there :) but no more!!!
― frogbs, Thursday, 29 February 2024 21:02 (four weeks ago) link
lololol ok I am hooked
When I first read about Zappa it was on a webpage that began thusly: “Frank Zappa was a man who simply could not shut the fuck up.”
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Thursday, 29 February 2024 21:17 (four weeks ago) link
The Paramount Plus and Sirius XM apps are so bad it's like they must be joking. how do these huge companies have such lousy apps?
― Reeves Gabrels' Funko Pop (majorairbro), Friday, 1 March 2024 03:53 (three weeks ago) link
good conversations on super niche topics have mostly moved to discords I'd say, which can be viewed as a backwards step because a) harder to get to and b) not searchable in the same way.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 1 March 2024 10:50 (three weeks ago) link
I can’t remember because I have talked about it with so many people but have we discussed the Dark Forest theory of the Internet on ILX?
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 1 March 2024 11:50 (three weeks ago) link
have subscribed to yr blog frogbs
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 1 March 2024 11:51 (three weeks ago) link
we salute you Colonel
― frogbs, Friday, 1 March 2024 14:39 (three weeks ago) link
Dark Forest rings very familiar, but I can't figure out which thread it was on.
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Friday, 1 March 2024 14:40 (three weeks ago) link
― frogbs, Thursday, February 29, 2024 3:02 PM
You are now light years ahead of many hospitality and tourism organizations.
― pplains, Friday, 1 March 2024 15:06 (three weeks ago) link
featuring erstwhile ilx0r yanc3y (who seemed like a great guy but i never heard how he responded to kickstarter unionization):
The dark forest theory of the internet (2019)+The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet (a new collection of essays)
― mookieproof, Saturday, 2 March 2024 03:36 (three weeks ago) link
ty
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Saturday, 2 March 2024 03:47 (three weeks ago) link
Trying to get a refund from my energy company cause I’m £192 in credit & I’d rather that money were piling up in my bank account than with some cunt “provider”This had previously been easy to do, literally just the click of a button on their site. Now there it takes you to a chatbot that asks you to type REFUND to request a refund, so I do and it says “sorry, I am unable to process this as you are not logged in” (I am) and tells me to click a link that takes me back to the landing page to start the cycle again. After a couple of times I get it to say “I am unable to process this request at this time, click here to chat with a member of our customer service team” — which just turns out to be a different fucking chatbot that can’t do anything! The company I was with, shell energy, was recently bought by octopus so I figured it’s to do with the handover & I’d try again once I got set up with them .Get the email to set up my octopus account yesterday, log in on their site: details all correct, £192 in credit, go to the refund section & am relieved to see it’s a simple button to click & not a stupid pretend chat window. Click the button & get “We can't automatically approve your refund request online, as your balance is less than £5”I know these kinds of companies sucked before, in some senses this isn’t so much a backward step as on a continuum with stuff like automated phone lines — it does have that particular kind of dysfunction that is built into absolutely everything now tho so belongs itt
― cozen itt (wins), Saturday, 9 March 2024 15:27 (two weeks ago) link
Yeah, customer exhaustion as a business model is definitely a thing, including "free for first 30 days then they have to cancel" - of course that's an older thing but as you say it's easier for them to make it harder for you now.
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 9 March 2024 16:06 (two weeks ago) link
― sarahell, Saturday, 9 March 2024 18:05 (two weeks ago) link
Is there a trendy term for excessive crap in templates and defaults and apps that come with your phone or computer that you want to get rid of? I feel like it’s related to bloat. I feel like we are back to the late 90s when we had to deal with the extensions manager in Mac OS 9.2 (and earlier) but we can’t as easily get to the extensions manager
― sarahell, Saturday, 9 March 2024 18:13 (two weeks ago) link
https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/book/the-glossary-of-human-computer-interaction/featuritis-or-creeping-featurism
― pplains, Saturday, 9 March 2024 21:21 (two weeks ago) link
Thank you for understanding!
― sarahell, Sunday, 10 March 2024 19:18 (two weeks ago) link
Liking anything on Facebook ( and probably other Social media Channels) is now a case of please spam me with stuff that's only vaguely adjacent to this item.
and now I never like stuff that might actually interest me because I cant take the sudden influx of stuff the algorithm has waiting in store.
suggested content on timelines is the great 'backwards step' we all just accept now, because capitalism myth of constant growth.
Not a new or novel opinion, but had some recent examples which drove me nuts.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Friday, 15 March 2024 13:08 (one week ago) link
I liked a video a pregnant friend of mine posted on insta of her baby moving around inside her belly.
You can only guess what kind of nightmarish eraserhead suggestions insta suggested to me for the next week.
― pplains, Friday, 15 March 2024 13:45 (one week ago) link
i recently discovered on Facebook on phones you can go to "feeds" and then "friends" and you see way less of the crap than the default feed
― kinder, Friday, 15 March 2024 16:43 (one week ago) link
This is a good tip!
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 15 March 2024 16:52 (one week ago) link
You know, back when I fought for frozen peaches on the Internet in the 90s, I fought for two things: The ability to say "fuck", and porn. Quite honestly, I am mad as hell that capitalism has made the Internet into a place where we can't do _either_ of these things, or you get DEMONETIZED. People make these video essays and they're all funded by these fucking scams like HelloFresh, but you can't talk about real shit. Contrapoints made a three hour video about fetishes and she had to say it was about fucking _twilight_ to get it to where anybody could look at it. Yet that same site will promote transphobic bigotry and hatred all over the damn place.
I mean, I guess at least if you're a video essayist you can put an uncensored version on Nebula. If you're not doing video essays, you can't even do shit behind a paywall. Gumroad has decided to ban all its NSFW content. They're blaming their payment processors. And fair enough! Anything can be _legal_ but if you have to meet Youtube's or Paypal's "decency" standards to sell your stuff or to get anybody to see your stuff, what does it matter?
All of this is so absurd. If this wasn't the Darkest Timeline, I'd be doing work that has actual value, the work I was born to do: Making force fem ASMR for my legion of finsubs. I assure you that this would be _far_ superior to whatever it the hell it is my employer is paying me to do. And you might be saying, "Kate, you're clearly being paid to complain on Internet message boards about capitalism", but no! No, not today. Today I am taking the day off, so that I can complain on Internet message boards about capitalism on my _own_ time.
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 15 March 2024 21:46 (one week ago) link
lol
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 March 2024 22:47 (one week ago) link
kate otm
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 16 March 2024 00:31 (one week ago) link
― kinder, Saturday, 16 March 2024 17:09 (one week ago) link
someone on here posted a good essay about the SNL/Shane Gillis thing from Kath Barbadoro, who I follow on Twitter and think is a good writer...anyway, she wrote another article on her Substack about Ozempic which I read. since then I'm getting a bunch of suggested content from MSN about Ozempic, all freaky stuff too. I couldn't figure out why until I remembered I read that article. I'm starting to really hate suggested content. When everyone thought Putin was gonna use nukes there were articles up there for a month saying stuff like "Russian insider says Putin ABSOLUTELY WILL nuke the West". I look up a couple articles about blood pressure and cancer screenings and suddenly it's all stuff about getting old and all the health problems in my future. It's not like I'm clicking on any of these but just loading up a new tab you still see it just enough for it to depress you. Why does it have to be all negative stuff? Why can't it be anything related to my actual hobbies?
― frogbs, Friday, 22 March 2024 14:47 (six days ago) link
my Instagram feed is 90% "tips to make your LinkedIn stand out" and "what ADHD is really like" reels. If I'd known that a few isolated, mindless clicks would forever customize my feed this way I'd have been a little more discriminate, might have clicked on a few more New Yorker cartoons or Mitch Hedberg videos
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 22 March 2024 20:14 (six days ago) link
Agreed, someone described Instagram to me as like flicking through a magazine, and every so often an item or picture will catch your eye and you'll linger on it...but I just get fed stuff I would totally ignore in a magazine...dogs, DIY, cooking.
― fetter, Friday, 22 March 2024 21:24 (six days ago) link
I recently found out that you can adjust the "sensitive" content setting to show you less "sensitive" content, and that this basically filters out most thirst trap posts. Because I feel like my primitive brain will just drift toward those in an idle moment, and then it just winds up showing me more and more of them (at least when I pull up the "search") even though I don't follow any thirst trap accounts.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 22 March 2024 21:27 (six days ago) link
DO THIS EACH MORNING TO EVACUATE YOUR BOWELS
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 22 March 2024 21:28 (six days ago) link
A couple of years ago I was looking up something on an obscure university's website for work, and to this day its ads follow me all over the internet, including in my LinkedIn messages.
― jaymc, Friday, 22 March 2024 21:41 (six days ago) link
how do I get less "lesbian touches a penis for the first time" ads?
― Left, Friday, 22 March 2024 21:42 (six days ago) link
Watch five or six great ape (gorilla, orangutan) videos in a row and you will be deluged with gorilla content forever.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Friday, 22 March 2024 21:48 (six days ago) link
I ordered an HP Lovecraft paperback from Amazon in like 1998 (when they only sold books) and to this day they still recommend new Lovecraft titles I might enjoy
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 22 March 2024 21:50 (six days ago) link
I've been getting stuck in loops of smart bird content lately. It's pretty good stuff tbh.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 22 March 2024 21:53 (six days ago) link
Watch five or six great ape (gorilla, orangutan) videos in a row and you will be deluged with gorilla content forever.― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Friday, March 22, 2024 2:48 PM (three hours ago)
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Friday, March 22, 2024 2:48 PM (three hours ago)
oh god the gorilla channel is real
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 23 March 2024 01:14 (five days ago) link
my reels are basically all x games all the time now. i'm not mad about it. unless i'm home alone on a friday night contemplating the fact that i can't pay my bills without a side gig that doesn't seem to be coming and i can't travel anywhere or afford more than groceries and gas. then somehow it all feels a bit joyless.
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Saturday, 23 March 2024 01:45 (five days ago) link
gay underwear, climbing, fancy cosmetics
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Saturday, 23 March 2024 01:47 (five days ago) link
which, fair enough
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Saturday, 23 March 2024 01:48 (five days ago) link
― sarahell, Saturday, 23 March 2024 04:33 (five days ago) link
And clothing… though I will resent getting ads for clothes that don’t come in plus sizes… especially since so much of purchasing and search history is “plus size”…. Today I got an ad telling me I should book a hotel for when I go see Pulp … I live 8 miles away. They should know this
― sarahell, Saturday, 23 March 2024 04:37 (five days ago) link
but at least it prompted you to organise the pre-Pulp fap (in the future)
― bae (sic), Saturday, 23 March 2024 07:37 (five days ago) link
Space bar makes the video pause. Except when it instead selects the buttons on the video, a thing I have never once wanted to do.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 23 March 2024 15:41 (five days ago) link