• LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    You want to order from a local restaurant,

    Don’t. Either order from a big chain or don’t order at all.

    you need to download a third-party delivery app

    Choose a different restaurant?

    even though you plan to pick it up yourself.

    Just walk to the store and order in-store?

    You want to watch the trailer for an upcoming movie

    Why? Why would anyone do that?

    but you first have to sit through an ad.

    Use uBlock. Sponsorblock. DeArrow. Privacy Badger. Peertube. Yt2009. Ytdl. Vanced. Newpipe.

    The first page of Google results are links to pages that have scraped other pages for information from other pages that have been scraped for information.

    Append site:reddit.com to the end of each search. Use udm14. Try ddg or searx or any one of the many search engine alternatives.

    All the sources seem to link back to one another.

    Sir this is the internet. It’s always been this way.

    The photos on the page look weird. The hands are disfigured. There is no image credit.

    Image credit and culture of copyright and corporate capitalist scum are to blame for most shitty things on the internet, defending this shit makes you deserve the misery you helped create.

    Your coworker sends you a PowerPoint pack

    2002 called.

    It makes even less sense.

    Not your problem.

    You tell them you’ll just rewrite it yourself.

    Cuckold.

    your favourite social media

    Ewww. Imagine corporate social media unironically.

    the app you use for networking

    Networking as in, computer networking? Depending on the exact application there may be tons of FOSS alternatives.

    If not, then stop being a corpo bootlicker and don’t “”“network”“”. Problem solved.

    You want to watch a TV show from your youth so you check a streaming service,

    Uhmmm, why would you do that? Rarbg exists for a reason. 1337x. Rutracker. VLC. Wanna go fancy? NAS or a simple old dell optiplex or a laptop. Debian. Qbittorrent-nox. Docker. Jellyfin. JBOD of old scavenged HDDs.

    You can’t read the recipe on your phone because it prioritises the ads

    Firefox & uBlock Origin fixes this issue on Android.

    and the page no longer loads

    Find a different recipe. This shit was always mostly ctrl+c/ctrl+v spam. Use a waybackmachine.

    Your phone schedules an update.

    Turn automatic updates off. Never a problem on android (Pixel, not reskins).

    Alternatively: Don’t use a phone.

    Your Gmail

    Don’t use Gmail.

    Your smart TV

    Don’t use TVs.

    I thought GenZ/Millennials were past owning TVs?

    The Airbnb

    Don’t use it.

    Your Uber driver

    Don’t use it.

    You still give him five stars.

    Don’t.

    You buy

    No.

    Your mother

    So fat,

    they put her

    behind a paywall,

    Use 12ft.io. archive.is etc etc.

    receive ads

    Turn off notifications for shopping apps. Block all ads.

    Strangers on social media assume you are American and get mad when you correct them.

    Most of the internet is American, most websites are American, most people speaking English are American. Us stinky euros will always be secondary characters. It’s Pax Americana age baby, I’m sorry you were born in the shit (I’m UK atm so def true for me).

    you need to pay for a subscription to the site in order to read it.

    Why not just have them send it to you as text files? Screenshots? Why are they hosting it on a paid third party website if they want it to be accessible? Why not self-host?

    You go to your local library’s website and although they don’t have the exact book, they do have others by the same author. You place a hold on two of them, then go get your shoes on.

    Or just download it?

    All problems are user’s own. Yes enshittification sucks. You’re free to disconnect as much as you can.

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      All problems are user’s own. Yes enshittification sucks. You’re free to disconnect as much as you can.

      Wrong attitude. Only atomization and further exploitation lies that way. The solution is to get vocal and demand higher standards.

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        Yeah you’re not gonna get that from corpos who won’t even need you for much longer. Once AI replaces your job, they’ll also replace you as a customer because you’ll have nothing, and they will simply only target the whales (rich). Even now the poor’s best chance is to be entertaining so bored rich people give them money on YT/Twitch, between all the shock content and mukbangs it’s just a less exciting version of gladiator arenas.

        Everything will become like an F2P game, where whales make all the money, and the rest are there to be flexed on, like dating apps where men roll dice for a chance at a woman but they’ll never get it unless they pay, letting the paying dunk on the poor. It’s very transparently a casino.

        It’s the same sort of gender-specialized money extraction they’ve been doing from us through the beauty market, they just found how to do it for men.

        I’ve been saying this for ages but I’m by far not the only one anymore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYB0SVTGRj4

        Or we could demand change to this entire system and take humanity down a very different, much brighter path to gay luxury space socialism but nobody wants to. Guess boring cyberpunk it is.

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        Why not? I’ve never really had any serious issues with them tbh like the order experience is always fine and it’s usually cheap as hell (£12 for a large pizza here in the UK from Dominos or PJs, obvsly no tipping either and tax is in price), and if they don’t deliver you can always get a refund. All the smaller restaurants are usually immigrant traffickers or ghost kitchens here nowadays.

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            5 months ago

            I’ve had tons of independent pizza, idk maybe it’s worse in the US because it’s only Americans that seem to say this but Domino’s is fairly uptown here

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              (USA) Having eaten at Dominos, Papa Johns, and a large selection of local places only one local place was worse then Dominos. The rest were all light-years better.