"The secret ingredient is crime". ~Super Hans
Personally I'd say every single product and service being transparently wrapped in a personal information honeypot
Just give me your ID bro. It's totally to protect the kids bro.
How about
I like those note-taking apps that require my location for a better user experience
What do you mean you don't want location tags in your notes?
In case someone needs help:
Uber/Lyft
Airbnb
Bitcoin/Crypotocurrency
ChatGPT/LLMs
Because you have 2/4 general terms:
Cryptocurrency not Cryptography to disambiguate again
Cryptozoology? I KNEW IT WAS GONNA BE FUCKING BIGFOOT!!!
"Rideshare" is also the least accurate term used to dodge regulations. It is just a taxi/cab. You are paying someone to get you from one place to another. They aren't sharing their ride, they were never going where you are going before you told them to.
"Exploiting immigrants to deliver food"
Wait till you learn about their latest innovation!
Exploiting individuals from other countries to bypass labor laws in the country of business operation via distributed outsourcing. Why even pay minimum wage in the US?
I personally hate the "thanks to AI you now can speak to your dead relatives" ones. Especially those ones which try to spin it like a personal story for the developer of the app. Oh shut up, you would sell your own mother for money. And also you are too late to jump on that bandwagon so get lost, we have enough of you leeches.
Literally the exact plot of a black mirror episode.
On a related note, I personally hate the AI partner/friend ones as well, where it's clearly preying on the lonely, insecure, or desperate. It's dastardly, dystopian, and frankly, quite sad. How many children's media show rich children as being quite miserable sods whose parents think that not having friendship can be resolved by buying their kids a friend?
You could easily see that being in a cyberpunk story, where you can rent a friend or partner from a megacorporation, but if you don't pay the rent, they'll be repossessed and deleted/destroyed. The data would be collected and used regardless.
Forgot "Glorified Pump-&-Dump scheme" (NFT's)
NFTs are basically Bitcoin and fall under fake money for criminals.
Hmmm ... the technology that is literally driving people insane so a few investors can make advertising money
Where's "video games that you never actually own, but at least you pay to beat them"?
Where's "removal of a common phone feature, because if you don't buy a $528 external DAC and a $9164 planar headphones, you'll be okay with a pair of raycons"?
Where's "video games that you never actually own, but at least you pay to beat them"?
This new and groundbreaking technological innovation?
"We're living in the future. I'll tell you how I know. I read it in the paper. Fifteen years ago."
Need to add illegal gambling to the list
Naw, crime is legal now.
The Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.
Don't forget about the tech/government surveillence state that is all up in your ass
It so happens that stuff useful for criminals is sometimes also useful for political dissidents or simply people who consider the country's laws too oppressive. Encrypted communication is another example of this.
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