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I want to be left alone (2024)

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179 points car | 1 comments | 03 Sep 25 01:11 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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rootusrootus ◴[03 Sep 25 01:25 UTC] No.45111255[source]▶
I feel this so, so much. The internet was so much better before it got commercialized and polluted with non-stop politics, hype, influencer crap, etc. I just want to be left alone, I know what I want, I don't want you to try and force it on me, trick me into it, etc. I want to have a functioning email account my friends can use where the messages won't get drowned in a sea of spam. I want a phone that only rings when someone I know calls.

We've created such a shithole, a perfect mirror of society I guess.

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1. SteveNuts ◴[03 Sep 25 02:04 UTC] No.45111527[source]▶
I swear to god, every single day I have at least one app with a pop up tooltip asking if I'd like a guided tour of all their new features and latest UI shuffle musical chairs. Bonus points if I'm presenting my screen at the time.

Honestly software is almost infuriating to me on a daily basis to me nowadays, I don't know if I'm just curmudgeonly or if software just sucks now but I want everything to just get out of my way when I'm trying to do something.

I guess you could say I want to be left alone...