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They are degrading the web experience because it's easier to block trackers and advertisements in the web. When users are driven to the application, Reddit owns the whole experience and only people who are capable of configuring home firewalls have any hope of privacy.

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I am trans and have also followed this habit. But I'm not fun either.

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Thanks for the recommendations!

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5 lat temudiscuss

There are too many to list nowadays. I keep one browser setup with JavaScript disabled for when I want to look up a product review, a recipe, or a how-to (even on my mobile devices). I’ve set all my browsers to disable autoplay (why is this not the default?). The web is becoming a miserable, slow, annoying experience. It’s hard to believe that as we have the best tools ever and the fastest computers that we’re choosing to inflict the most burdensome and repellent experiences on our users. God help us.

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5 lat temudiscuss

I use T-Mobile for my data plan on my iPad. Here's my experience:

1. Followed the link from the Gizmodo article to the T-Mobile page to opt-out.

2. Logged in to T-Mobile. They send a 6-digit security code.

3. Forced password reset (due to age). They send another 6-digit security code.

4. New password, so new login. Another 6-digit security code.

5. Finally make it to the opt-out page. Instead of an opt-out checkbox, it's a Material component that is malfunctioning. If you switch it, it looks off. If you switch it again, it turns on briefly then turns off again.

6. I hope that hitting it an odd number of times is "on" even though it looks off.

7. The "Done" button does not work.

How is this okay?

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5 lat temudiscuss

I’ve found myself searching for products first at Target or BestBuy (or even my neighborhood grocery store) before looking for products on Amazon. I’ve been burned repeatedly by poor quality products on Amazon (electronics, cookware, appliances) and other retailers just do a better job of stocking trustworthy products. I DID buy some books today from Amazon. Maybe they should focus on that product line for a while.

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5 lat temudiscuss

I don’t know if the mockup is what will actually appear in production, but there is some psychology about showing a flower and a smiling black woman. The image plays first to trust (nature, a mother figure, the smile) and if that isn’t enough, secondly to guilt (I need to start trusting black women) to prime the user into accepting the prompt. Imagine if it were a cartoonish Mark Zuckerberg with his tight little smirk, and instead of a flower, a piggy bank.

Facebook isn’t stupid or random. This image must have been very carefully developed and run past some of their staff PhDs. Assuming this is real.

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6 lat temudiscuss

Agree 100%. JIRA is supposed to be a means, not an end itself. Half of my organization believes they are generating value by adding new issues into JIRA. JIRA helps reinforce a dogmatic attitude that the "hows" are more important than the "whys", and thus issues that could be succinctly described in 20 words get expanded into templated "given/when/then" verbiage.

One of the core Agile principles is "individuals and interactions over processes and tools". JIRA is more-or-less value neutral, but the management caste, possibly fearful of the sort of healthy conflict that comes with negotiating the priority of features and fixes, tends to resort to inputing all their information into JIRA believing that it's a substitute for actual communication.

Every Agile resource I've read has emphasized the point that nothing is equal to actual conversation between stakeholders. Whether it's JIRA or one of its competitors, when you have a tool that discourages conversations or pretends to act as a proxy for collaboration between stakeholders, you're going to court failure. Easy to blame JIRA, but it's this whole tool-based mindset.

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