My one holdover is YouTube. There's just no good replacement for it.
The media is pro-Trump, not only because they are wealthy capitalists who agree with his deregulation policies and tax cuts for the rich, but also because they get higher ratings when the masses are angry. Just look at how CNN changed; they might as well just be another pro-Trump network.
Even worse, Reddit itself has been getting infected with corporate AI-generated "recommendations"
This is one of the most obvious potential cases of purposeful sabatoge. They were probably bribed by other big businesses to destroy their reputation so people would stop using the site.
There's nothing businesses hate more than their workers having negotiating power, and wage transparency gives them more power than they had before. There's a reason why it's considered "rude" in the US to discuss wages with co-workers; I always make a point to discuss my wage with all of my co-workers, since it's illegal for businesses to prevent that discussion.
In most other countries, it's the norm to openly discuss your wages; unions are also more common in other countries. It's just standard toxic workplace cultures trying to prevent people from getting paid what they're worth, or god forbid, forming a union.
But digitizing does have some benefits, like bit-for-bit archival, usually by a "third party"
The Windows equivilent would be instead of putting application data in the AppData folder, it throws it in Documents, My Games, or just in the home folder directly.
Yarr harr fiddle dee dee
I couldn't imagine spending $1 billion in my entire life, let alone 3-4.
Authoritarian tendencies since the web is a bit too close to providing its users with freedom of speech.
Remember when Microsoft said Windows 10 will be the last version of Windows?
Wow. You just somehow accurately summed up the modern day result of late stage capitalism in one post. Nicely done
They have no easy path to fix it because they take billionaire and corporate money. If they stopped doing that, the path would've been obvious this entire time.