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Ask HN: Why has everything become so annoying?

> try to open a link

how about some cloudflare mf!

> open an interesting article

half the page is greyed out, pay up mf!!

> try to change a password

password not secure enough mf!!

> try to watch youtube

you must disable adblock mf!!

> search for a video on youtube

no, you will watch what we tell you mf!!

> search for something on google

here is some blogspam written by chatGPT with 20 chapters mf!!!

> try to update twitter account

here are 10 arkose captcha puzzles to solve consecutively, each requiring abstract thinking and 20/20 eagle vision mf!!

> try to login to work email

enter the 2fa okta pass mf!!

> open an app on my phone

you have been signed out because of suspicious activity. give us your phone number to verify mf!!

> open slack

we just rejigged the UI, now a bunch of useless crap pops up and stays up every time you mouseover something mf!!!

> try to edit some code

your node is outdated, neeed to update mf!!

bash isn't supported anymore got to use zsh now mf!!

got to sign in to git first mf!!

got to pull the latest branch mf!!

got to merge all the changes first mf!!

got to login to corporate vpn before u can push mf!!

> turn on game console to relax

need to install this mandatory 50gb update first mf!!!

things that used to be 1 step. now are 2, 3, 4+ steps.

everything requires more effort for same results. everything is more and more annoying.

15 points 5350-uiop-1130 2 years ago 13 comments

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