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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Actually, the main problem isn't that they've made their services convenient. Most of them are inconvenient in multiple ways.

The really big problem, the absolutely INSIDIOUS shit is how extremely inconvenient they've made using alternatives.

Example: Google the search engine straight up sucks from an end user perspective now. Yet because it's where over 90% of all search engine searches happen, it's MORE inconvenient to use any other one, no matter how much better the algorithms and what have you.

Same with YouTube: the user experience becomes worse and worse, but since it has a de facto near-monopoly of certain types of content from certain creators, best you can do is a custom frontend. Which they're of course trying to make impossible ever since they removed the "Don't" from their original informal slogan.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Insidious

A good plug to use Invidious for sure, intentional or not.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Unintentional but very much welcomed 😁