The moment I see myself in an ad, I'm giving up on technology and joining the Amish.
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2025
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Don't do that. The Amish are not good people.
https://www.grunge.com/268104/the-dark-truth-about-amish-country/
We should all be more like the actual Luddites - they destroyed technology that was being used to exploit and/or displace workers.
Let’s start a lemmite anti-tech community ironically full of tech nerds
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Can't upvote this now.
I weep for my newborn, whose reality will be marred by so much fakeness
I remind everyone that Google invested not once, but twice in this company, for a total of $350 million
Minority Report, the bad parts.
Edit: glad I'm using a deGoogled Android phone, can't trust manufacturers not to enshitificate.
Why would anyone opt in 😭
Is this just so they can wait a few months and say, "Not enough people were discovering this Great Feature, so we're enabling it by default"?
I've already been getting the itch to leave Samsung and try something different. I'm keeping my eye on the upcoming Nothing Phone 3, if it's genuinely a "flagship" for £800 I might jump ship.
I know a bunch of folks who will opt in because their thought process regarding technology is pretty much "new = good."
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, and so the enshitification of what once was a great phone continues.
Don't they know how ugly the common people are. I'm not gonna buy something with an ugly guy in the ad. We ain't all plastic surgery Korean like Samsung home base.
Someone at Samsung submitted a user story only to troll, and it worked "I need you to drain my phone battery and data plan for ads when I dont even look at it"
so i guess i'm going to hold on the the pixel 8 for as long as i can then......
Could they not?
If companies don't push the envelope, nobody will mark it return to sender.
So...what'll probably happen:
- Samsung does this. It is universally despised.
- A year will go by, and Google will do this. It will be universally despised.
- A year will go by, and Apple will do this. It will be loved by Apple users and despised by everyone else.
- A year will go by and it's a part of every Android phone on the market. Apple users will accuse Android of "stealing" the feature. Everyone else will despise it.
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Oh good, another reason not to buy Samsung anything. I already just didn't like their UI.