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What are some little things capitalism did that annoyed you personally. (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've got two off the top of my head:

First is that the design of the USB drives needing to be oriented up or down was the result of a minor cost cutting choice. The inventor regrets it because it wouldn't been easy made so that USB drives were reversible.

Second is the abundance of pointless SEO stuff on recipe pages. It would be a cool opportunity for the creator to add a personal touch to the recipe page beneath the recipe, but they pop in first along with ads and suggested links. And they're so frustrating to navigate that they had to incorporate a 'jump to recipe' button.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

My fucking god I hate how pervasive ads are. I've entirely quit watching cable TV because of commercials and just pirate anything I want to watch, and I just don't listen to the radio for the same reason. Magazines and newspapers lost the war ages ago but those are dying media that no one read anymore. Thank fucking god uBlock Origin exists otherwise I'm not sure I'd be able to tolerate the internet. But I can't avoid billboards because I live in a car-centric hellscape where public transportation doesn't exist and I literally have to drive a car if I want to get anywhere. Billboards are a blight upon the landscape and every single one of them should be burned to the ground.

On the rare occasions I actually watch cable TV (usually at family gatherings) it honestly astounds me how mind-numbing ads have become. Like how everything has to have a stupid "catchy" jingle, or be super in your face about manipulating you into buying whatever garbage they're trying to sell.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

On the rare occasions I actually watch cable TV (usually at family gatherings) it honestly astounds me how mind-numbing ads have become. Like how everything has to have a stupid "catchy" jingle, or be super in your face about manipulating you into buying whatever garbage they're trying to sell.

I actually miss when ads were about how powerful this cleansing agent is or how much horsepower that car was supposed to have. Now it's all about life-changing epiphanies, about the purchased identity from the treat and the validation the treat promises the exhausted and alienated consumer. debord-tired