Like if you think about all the time wasted, that people are made to waste, just because google was like “if we made this work shittier people would be on google more,” all that shit adds up.
There’s only 42,076,800 minutes in 80 years, so if google makes every adult in the country waste even a minute of their time, that’s already multiple lifespans worth of “wasted time,” and I can promise you the actual number of wasted minutes in the ten plus years they’ve been shitfucking their own product is orders of magnitude greater than that
so like idk i guess what I’m saying is google owes us a few lives and we should start with its execs
My problem isn’t even the wasted time. Advertising is psychological warfare. It is manipulative and abusive. Everybody responsible deserves to be strapped into the Clockwork Orange device. Their sentence is the average amount of time an ordinary person spends listening to advertisements in their lifetime.
This is my stance. It’s horrifying that we let ads be everywhere and on everything.