My opinions

Internet: internet is BLOATED! I don't know exactly when webmasters decided it was a good idea to shove a fuckload of images, animations and JS scripts in EVERY webpage, but it seems to be the norm now. Most of the time there's no reason for the that stupid ammount of crap that people shove in their pages nowadays, it turns webpages into heavy resource hogs that screw up privacy and usability (specially in older devices).

Internet also became more bland, boring, less original and centered around collection of personal data. It used to be a symbol of a new horizon, a tool that would finally free people from mental shackles, a place of knowledge and creativity, but as time passed it became clear that human social problems are too tough and pervasive to be solved by a mere tool.

Bloat: everything seems to be BLOATED! Every piece of goddamn modern technology we use seems to be bloated.

When I say bloat I mean unnecessary complexity and unwise use of resources, not complexity by itself. Complexity is inevitable, but companies seems to be trying really hard to make things unnecessarily complex, less durable, less fixable, more resource intensive and more cumbersome.

Commodification of personal data: the worst monstrosity that has been vomited by corporations in the history of internet. It's bad for privacy, for civil rights, for human progress and for all of us.

Dark patterns: just another bullshit vomited by corporations as well. A neologism coined by the UX designer Harry Brignull, dark patterns (also called "deceptive design pattern" according to wikipedia) is a user interface created to trick users into doing things like buying overpriced stuff, sharing more information than they intend to, installing unwanted third-party software along with the main program etc.

Social media: the concept of social media by itself is not the issue, the main problems are:

The nail in the coffin for me was the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal. My only use for it now is to keep in touch with friends and family, which is why I unfortunately still keep an account in one of those platforms.

Bich tech social media is not here to help people connect to each other in any meaningful way, they are here to make you addicted to their platforms, colonize your behaviour and reward political lunatism at the cost of your mental health.

It was such a sad experience to see many digital creators abandoning their websites and migrating to social media platforms that cut their balls and creative power.

Leverage a small honest business using the aid of social media may not be an option either unless you're willing to abuse clickbaits and work like crazy to please their shit algorithms. All the work you put into it can also go to shit if they decide to shutdown your channel, making you waste huge ammounts of time, money and content .

Windows: became an unusable piece of garbage after the deprecation of windows 7. It wasn't extraordinary but was sane enough to use. Windows nowadays is just a spyware to collect personal data, show intrusive ads, try to convince you to use their shitty browser and overheat the processor so you can use it to roast a steak.

Except for security updates, Microsoft hasn't added anything really important to Windows since version 7, they just put a new interface on top of the old version with a bunch of crap that consumes a lot of computing resources, brings a bunch of bugs, turns the processor into an electric oven and makes almost no practical difference.

Add that to the fact that they need to maintain backwards compatibillity with previous versions and now we have this monstruosity that is impossible to fix completely. It's truly a miracle that developers still manage to keep this insanity working.

Some people say that if a digital product or service costs you no money then YOU are the product. Well, guess what, you have to pay for legal copies of Windows and still was transformed into a product by Microsoft. They put a digital leash on you and YOU PAID for it.

Unless you are locked in Windows due to professional reasons you should get rid of it as fast as you can, and even if you're locked in you should migrate your stuff to another OS if possible or at least restrict it's presence on your life to the bare minimum.

Microsoft: one of the largest turd polishment tech companies in the world. The harder they try, the stinkier it gets. Microsoft have some kind of technological "reverse Midas touch" that turn good tech products into pieces of turd. Microsoft power lies solely in vendor lock-in, not in quality. Unfortunately lots of people still depend on their crapware to work and run their business software. Avoid it like the plague.

Google: "Don't be evil"...who the hell wants evil things nearby anyway? Any reasonable person wants goodness around, right? RIGHT?! Well, it seems that google realized that the "don't be evil" code of conduct wasn't good for business like their shareholders expected, so they throwed it away and did massive ammounts of corporate turd polishment through algorithms, marketing, and UX design.

Google haven't innovated for a while, and they adopted the same strategy as Microsoft: acquire and destroy projects to sideline the competion. They killed so many of it's own projects that someone made a virtual cemetery to keep a record of them all.

2025 update: google has lifted a ban on using AI for weapons development and surveillance. How can they square "using AI for weapons development and surveillance" with "don't be evil" and "democracy values" is beyond me. "Don't be evil" is trully dead now. Who would have guessed?

Youtube: the decline of youtube quality (for both users and content creators) wasn't that surprising given the googlish mentality behind it.

Chaotic algorithms that make good channels lose viewers and subscribers, arbitrary community guidelines that encourages the creation of bland content, removal of the star rating system, ads that lasts more than 2 fucking minutes...and now, to complete the icing on the googlish fecal cake, they're trying to fight adblocks with everything they got.

Googled Youtube is one more example of the dark powers of gradualism: It’s hard to do something bad all at once, but if you can cut it up into small enough pieces, you can get people used to any shit you want.

Smartphones: despite being handy when you don't have immediate access to a desktop/laptop computer around, smartphones are simply awful:

The average user became so damn dumb that they are incapable of understanding any interface more complex than a childish app. The attempt to make a user-friendly system got too far.

Nintendo: talented but overly litigious company that adamantly defend even the breadcrumbs that fall from their table. They don't provide viable means to play old NES/SNES games but sue websites for distributing game ROMs that otherwise would be pretty much dead, that's so ridiculous that I don't even define it as greed, just plain pettiness.

Blizzard: this company was a symbol of inovation and good quality electronic entertainment with games like Diablo, Starcraft, Warcraft and WoW. It pains me to see the state of their stuff now. "Do you guys not have phones?" REALLY?!?!

Steam: I don't hate Steam, but I failed at every atempt of getting used to it, which leaves me out of the main modern walled garden of gaming. I'm in the wilderness of modern electronic games I guess.