Just let me compute in peace.

[paddyduke@mastodon.social]

@neil “We use invasive tracking to make your experience better.”

Meanwhile the reset password link has been going to a 404 for at least three months, nothing on the site is keyboard accessible, and there are multiple unsolicited videos playing over the top of the article all at once.

Forgive me if I’m somewhat suspicious about whether “making my experience better” is actually the priority here.

[davidbcohen@twit.social]

@neil @TheBreadmonkey This whole ‘internet’ thing is the where it went wrong. A copy of Byte magazine and the manual that came in the box with your micro is all we ever really needed.

[woe2you@beige.party]

@graves501 @neil
I don't want your app
No no no no no no no
I have a browser

[stethewwolf@mastodon.uno]

@neil

Great post !

[graves501@fosstodon.org]

@woe2you @neil Perfect!

[flangey@chaos.social]

@neil I read this whole post in the tone of the rant from "Network" (1976) https://youtu.be/M96UAUJWW3Y?t=72

“I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this any more!”

[jamesb@fedi.duckduckpigeon.co.uk]

@neil ALL OF THIS

[athanspod@social.linux.pizza]

@neil Hear! Hear!

[justine@snac.smithies.me.uk]

I think that most folk will 150% agree with this and some. Thank you!

[coreysnipes@hachyderm.io]

@neil I was just commiserating with @rose_alibi along these lines.

[neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk]

@coreysnipes @rose_alibi Annoying, isn't it!

[tinker@infosec.exchange]

@neil - Reminds me of that old song with the chorus line that says "Signs, signs, everywhere signs. Blocking up the scenery, breaking my mind."

(apologies for the youtube link. hoping that one doesnt have an ad)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U1b3acUNyGg

[annehargreaves@ioc.exchange]

@neil About those "rate our service" nags, my brother says "No. I bought the thing. I'm not doing your advertising for you".

[neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk]

@annehargreaves Exactly! If I like something else to toot or blog about it, I will do that of my own initiative

[chrisgerhard@mastodon.green]

@neil but how will our 1673 partners be able to truly respect your privacy if they can't put a cookie in your browser....

[wtl@mastodon.social]

@neil @tinker This.

[bonehousewasps@beige.party]

@neil Amen.

[jbaty@social.lol]

@neil Great list! It's exhausting. I keep a similar list on my /nope slash page : https://baty.net/nope/

[neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk]

@jbaty Annoying, isn't it!

[djdarren@mendeddrum.org]

@neil > No, I don’t want your app. You have a website. And yes, if you pretend that I can only do something via your app because I’m on a mobile browser, of course I’ll switch to desktop mode.

Then you get firms like Argos, where they've removed any ability to pay off any of your Argos card balance from their website, so you have to use the app. There is literally no other way to do it. And the app is called MyArgos, so for a while there the launcher I used to use wouldn't see it when I searched for 'Ar', meaning I had to remember its stupid, shitty name.