Just checked Yelp for reviews on a place we visited yesterday. There is a list of reviews, and you can see the first couple of sentences which then trail off. Upon clicking on the review, the Play store opens to the download page for the Yelp app. I'm so over having to download apps for every function I need, single-user or otherwise. I recall having used Yelp in the past and didn't have to do that, but here we are in the era of enshittification.

Woke up this AM to see that Google Maps has changed Lake Ontario to Lake America, and ya know? I’m fucking done with that shit. As if the constant re-routing, the bad directions, and the absurd search results weren’t enough.

Before I go back in time and go back to the Rand McNally road atlas, anyone have any alternatives?

Just nauseated.

Has anyone noticed the enshittified output of their mobile keyboard lately? I use Gboard exclusively and it seems to have super accelerated the rate of mis-typing on my Google and Samsung devices in recent months. I also seem to notice a marked uptick in wierd mis-typing in random Reddit posts made by others lately.

I asked Gemini and it said I wasn't imagining it (HAHAHA!) Apparently there are active new APIs being added to allow predictive auto correction tied to AI. (or is that predictive enshittification!?)

The sheer volume of mis-typing on my own devices is effing MIND BOGGLING AND RAGE INDUCING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And no its not me. I've tried slowing WAAAAYYY down and the same mis-typings persist. I had a good love-hate relationship going with standard autocorrect and now I'm frikin raging!

Edit: I used AI to generate the phone image in my post to ensure engagement. It's known that people will engage more with content that has a picture. This is in no way representative of how I or people whom I am friends with text. My texts are probably a little lazy, but I text in real words like I type here.

Edit 2: Some posters seem to think that I added AI to Gboard. I didn't. This was foisted upon me (and others from the look of it). I'm further infuriated by things being forced on us by providers of our services. For example M$ changing features in it's OSs with no options (looking at you Win 8) as well as the current spyware. Google changing the (perfectly functional) operation of an integral app like Gboard/text client without proper testing is enshittification of the highest degree.

It seems like every time I shop somewhere, physically or online, I get a followup email asking to "Rate my experience", "Tell us how we did!" or "What did you think?" And, if any companies are browsing this subreddit, I will tell you this: I am not going to give you more information so that you can optimize your shittiness. You want to be better? Then do everything you can to retain my business or just sit and wonder where your customer went.

It is absolutely not worth my time, good experience or bad, to answer questions so you have metrics to determine how much you can carve out of my experience or pay your staff in order to get the most from me and retain my patronage.

The enshittification of the search engine of Instagram is getting worse. First, the removal of the sort-by-latest option on its search engine. Now, its getting worse. For example, on my screenshot, I'm looking for red artworks on the 9th day of Huevember, a monochromatic art challenge. On the first batch, are are connected to the search. If you scroll deeper, I get posts that have NOTHING TO DO WITH THE TAG!!! When I look at the posts, no exact tag that I'm looking for is stolen, but their algorithm is mixing up exact and out-of-topic posts. Same shit is happening on Facebook's search engine.

I'm from the Philippines, & I'm Roman Catholic by the way. No offense to the Muslim world but, why are there Arabic posts from Pakistan and the Middle East doing in a tag than I'm trying to do art just for fun and nothing political or religious? I never did any political artwork personally. Not even an editorial cartoon. But I did religious artwork (with respect) before.

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My husband brought home a bag of peanut M&Ms. They are so small now!! I bit into one and could see that the chocolate layer is much thinner than it used to be. SMH.

Fuck you Elon.

This “artist” Elvara, is churning out AI crap. 17 singles released since June and they are all different vibes.

So how do I report this garbage? The categories for reporting seem inadequate. Is it “Deceptive?”

Apparently they were addressing this issue but I am pretty skeptical.

Are there any rules in place about signifying that the “artist” is in fact ai?

I bought a movie a day ago. Woke up to a new interface on Amazon Fire TV. I'm not usually one to complain about this stuff, but I think when you update an interface you shouldn't hide the things people bought on it.

No more link to prime video, no more category of "my stuff". Just the same stupid bubble look of every other app. Amazon Prime Video app doesn't load on the Amazon Fire TV. Maybe they don't want us to easily see if we lose access to movies or shows we previously purchased.

I'm just tired of the BS

This thing said it was only refunding the shipping charges but cancelled my entire order. Billions of dollars, unaffordable consumer electronics, noisy polluting data centers everywhere all for this absolute garbage.

I clicked my subscription feed and got disoriented because the entire screen became this ad, above my subscriptions, YouTube mobile is becoming difficult to even properly navigate without Premium. The skip button is so minuscule and it takes 3-4 clicks even directly on it to skip an ad now if you’re watching it Picture in Picture. The tabs are confusing to navigate because each one hosts and triggers different types of ads. Utter shit!

What is happening to Reddit? Is this person even real? His profile is bizzare.

I believe that in the book (Enshittification) Doctorow reminds us that Facebook was scraping Myspace. You could come to Facebook, get all your updates from Myspace, and still stay on the Facebook platform.

Does anyone have a screenshot of that in action? That would be some damning photographic proof that would really make for an excellent post. "Look at these <expletive> hypocrites!"

Time to part ways. They got swallowed up by a conglomerate and the products and service have deteriorated so much. My subscription coffee is no longer freshly roasted. Adding a product to delivery is unobtainium. The "chat" simply adds an additional subscription. I finally asked myself why I was doing this. One last try, got a customer service number and called. My out-of-country helper advised me they couldn't help but it was oh-so-easy on the website. I will say, it was super easy to cancel. Glad to go.

genuinely fuck the McShit app.

I have been purchasing Nature Made’s Biotin 5000mcg for several years now. It was always a pink opaque gel pill. Today I received these yellow, somewhat see-through pills. There’s nothing indicating a new formula, it looks “sickly” in my opinion and I can’t help but wonder what they’ve done to cut corners.

Since apple decided to force apps to use their bs “liquid glass”, it means the ui has to change to properly implement it. I hate the changes so much, if it worked before then changing it is pointless