Which website do you really hate the most or given you the most trouble? - Cutting of my connections to Facebook made me feel 10 times as better.

Deluxe said:
Fucking TENOR (owned by google)
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Blamo said:
Pinterest, it is an evil that plauges image search.
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Pinterest sucks too.

Pinterest "ideas" clog up image search results, clicking on an image brings up a "join now" popup, it won't work without JavaScript, and it can be hard to find the link to where the image is. In other words, it's an annoying "middle man" between you and the image file.

Quora also sucks. Always in search results, needs JS, and seems answers always suck one way or another. Also can't view more than one page at a time without a "join now" popup: related answers open in new page.
 
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HumanHive said:
Youtube is increasingly trash, as if Google has made it a top priority to make the site unusable. The algorithm has been lobotomized. What a joke Google is.
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It's getting slower, too. All of Google's services are (including their cloud offering), but it's especially noticeable on Youtube now. Pages just take longer to load than they used to, comments load more slowly, seeking is slower, etc. On the "creator" side, it can take literal days now for a 15 minute 4k video to "process." Bulk-editing videos (i.e. selecting a bunch and changing their tags, recording date, etc. all at once) can take minutes, and only one "batch" can be submitted/processed at once. I don't care how big your infrastructure is -- it should not take more than a few seconds to change a few pieces of metadata on a few objects in online storage, but on Youtube it does.

I think their infrastructure, impressive as it is (was?), is finally starting to reach its practical limits. What they've built is technically impressive (same as Amazon's) but no architecture yet known can scale indefinitely. The PhD's and other Very Smart People(tm) who designed and built Google's infrastructure in the late 2000's and early 2010's did a great job, but it's really a never-ending task to keep it growing and running well and it's a near-certainty those same people don't work at Google anymore. Unfortunately for Google, they really need people of that caliber to solve their infrastructure woes and keep the lights on.

Besachf Jhakut said:
That's probably baked in the pie. Besides being run by someone who only got the job through ethnic networking ... Google primarily rewards people who launch new products, and after that maintenance of only the most important ones. So between obviously pozzed objectives and delivery on those as people in this topic are attesting, it's very possible it can't attract Google's best talent.
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I honestly don't think Google really has much talent left. Not legitimately good, senior-level American talent with sufficient skill and confidence to say "no, pajeet, that's the wrong way to do it, we should do it *this* way and if you don't like it, fuck you I quit" and mean it. Those employees actually get real work done. Google likely doesn't have any employees like that anymore.

I doubt there are really many career "Googlers" left who've been there five years or longer at this point. It's only come to light in the past few years that their internal culture is damn near cult-like and their hiring practices are predatory (in the sense that they prefer single people without local family connections because it's easier to pressure them into working long hours and spend less time at home) but I'm sure it's been that way a lot longer -- we just didn't have proof until James Damore's lawsuit against Google laid it all bare (with evidence). Clearly a Googler's job is only reasonably secure if he's a hard leftist; any conservative working at the company knows they're one misstep away from being fired and they must find that utterly exhausting. I'm willing to bet there aren't many left. The brain drain is real.

The only people left at Google are diehard liberals and radical leftists, and we all know how productive radicals tend to be. I'll grant that moderate-to-severe leftists (lol) can be fairly productive when they can tear themselves away from politics, but they're still operating in a batshit insane cancel-culture-driven environment that routinely cancels employees (literally chasing them out) and often drives them to quit on their own. It's also my understanding that Google isn't actually very competitive anymore in terms of salary and benefits, at least not compared to what mid-sized companies can afford to offer to the actual talent they've been poaching from Google over the past decade. The prestige is mostly gone, too. Ten years ago it was "holy shit, Google emailed me to schedule an interview!" Today it's "yeah I guess I can fly out next week for an in-person interview; I have other interviews this week though."

Services don't always get killed because they're not profitable enough (not much of Google is profitable; everything's pretty much funded by AdSense and I'm sure there's some DoD-funded projects going too) or exciting enough. Sometimes a product gets killed because there's literally no one left at the company who knows how to keep it running and they'd rather turn it off officially before something publicly breaks and they have to eat crow by admitting they can't fix it.

They're rapidly turning into another Microsoft, complete with a market-dominant operating system (Android) and an ever-growing pile of "legacy" products that aren't necessarily called that because they're old, but because nobody left at the company knows how to work on them anymore since all the competent people have been replaced by pajeets at half the price (and a quarter of the skill). Unlike Microsoft though, they don't really have a lot of separate revenue streams to keep them rolling if one or two of them fall off suddenly. If there's ever a shakeup in the online advertising market and another company manages to disrupt Google's death grip on that industry and steal it away, I think Google will collapse pretty quickly under its own weight.
 
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I'll second YouTube, but I'll also lambaste the fact that no website works great with keyboard navigation extensions.

The way these extensions work is they add single layer or multi-layer organized shortcuts, which is a fantastic idea... Until it isn't. You can have up to fifty organized shortcuts laid out at any given time, and you'd spend more time parsing through which is what rather than getting to where you need to.
 
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Pissmaster said:
That's true, and that's Reddit's best use case.

Then again, Reddit overtaking every single hobby and enthusiast community on the planet is fucking cancerous. There are countless people that just pop into subs they have no reason to visit just to argue. Did you dare question the vaccine on your sub with under 10,000 readers about some super niche game you're really into? Here come some retard ready to scream at you in the most condescending manner, with a post history all full of the same sort of crap from countless other subs. It's like hanging out with your friends and having some asshole kick down your door and try to police you out of the blue. You can always tell them to fuck off, but there'll always be another one. Shit, it's so common I swear those people are paid to do it.

But at least you can ask questions about really specific problems you're having in your niche hobby and generally get an answer. At least Reddit's got that going for it.

Twitter, on the other hand, is completely useless. It's a true blue hellsite. The toxicity is off the charts. Why the hell would anyone ever subject themselves to that shithole?


It's grating as hell that Wikia is the top result on every search engine, even if there's an independent wiki that covers everything better, and they almost always do.
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Reddit also ruined hobbyist communities by making the hobby itself a means by which users gained internet upcummies. Subreddits went from being discussion forums to places where users farm karma by showing off their equipment/gear (also driving consoomer culture) rather than actually using it for the intended purpose.
 
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I'm pretty good at purging websites that cause me stress from my life. I haven't been on Facebook for nearly a decade and Twitter since around 2016. I get my news through RSS and I have javascript off by default, so I avoid most of the news sites' retardation.

Probably Amazon for not letting me just give them my money to buy shit without trying to sell me Prime or get my Phone number. It's the internet version of that pushy guy who walks around Canadian Tire trying get you to sign up for a credit card.
 
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I mentioned earlier that Twitter will lock new accounts until you give them your phone number. Well I tried to make a new Facebook account (if you want to know why I would ever want to do that it's because my cat is missing and I found a group for missing pets in my area). I make the account with an email address. IMMEDIATELY after logging in the first time Facebook tells me my account is locked due to unusual activity (exact same message that you get on Twitter) and that they need my phone number. For fuck sake.

It's so insidious. It would be bad enough if they just said "we want all your data so give us your phone number" but they don't say that, they fucking lie and say that there is something weird going on with your account.

If there is anyone here that wants to make documentaries in the field can you go to a poor community in Nigeria and film someone that doesn't own a smart phone trying to use social media and show it at a film festival. Can Silicon Valley prove that every adult that has access to the internet has a smart phone? What about retirees?
 
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100% VIRGIN M00TY said:
Well I tried to make a new Facebook account (if you want to know why I would ever want to do that it's because my cat is missing and I found a group for missing pets in my area). I make the account with an email address. IMMEDIATELY after logging in the first time Facebook tells me my account is locked due to unusual activity (exact same message that you get on Twitter) and that they need my phone number. For fuck sake.
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For what it's worth, you might be able to use Nextdoor for that kinda thing too, though they probably require a phone number and shit too.
 
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Battlelog and Battlefield Companion has given me issues as Battlelog is not even being fixed by EA. The portal does not update the server count and tickets.
 
Besachf Jhakut said:
That's probably baked in the pie. Besides being run by someone who only got the job through ethnic networking (and who is more powerful than the Pajeet fall guy who's nominally in charge of the company), Google primarily rewards people who launch new products, and after that maintenance of only the most important ones (that's one reason the Google "graveyard" is so big, there's also a related technical one, the monorepo). In the context of using stack ranking for promotions that's big.

It's unclear how important they think YouTube is, it's believed to be a huge money sink if the accounting for it was honest, as in a lot of its costs are said to be shifted to other categories, it's biggest thing is clearly the degree to which it can "control the (national) conversation" which became of utmost importance after the election of the BAD ORANGE MAN. So between obviously pozzed objectives and delivery on those as people in this topic are attesting, it's very possible it can't attract Google's best talent.
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I think it would be an interesting exercise to see where the changes to the suggestion algorithm are actually being made.

I would be shocked if they're actually breaking it across the board. I think it's more likely that they're just tuning it based on audiences.

People who are already aware of the Jewish problem aren't going to come back, so you might as well save processing time and just serve them up nonsense. Stupid conservatives would be targeted with Ben Shapiro and Steven Crowder to keep them in their cages, and liberals with neoliberal crap like Vaush to prevent them becoming leftists.
 
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All of them are evil for different reasons. InstaBook is probably the most overtly evil. GoogleTube is more passively evil. Wikipedia is the most insidious because of how they control narratives and have a great reputation.
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Well then perhaps you'd care to explain THIS

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After thinking about this for a couple of days, I think I am going with these:

1. Reddit - for the fact that it killed off most independent forums. People create subreddits for inane topics. Some companies make you wade through all the upvoting faggotry to find tech help. Clicking on the search bar will first show you propaganda in the form of 'trending items', then when you actually search, the results default to 'all of reddit' (WHY?) and even when you get your results, you have to scroll down through several irrelevant items. Upvoting content has been rigged since 2016 and Orange Man. They are increasingly gimping the site on mobile. You will find subreddits mods fucked with by other admin, either banned, posts deleted for unknown reasons, etc. I'd compare this to if all xenforo forums had a common admin structure and how intolerable that would be, ie some faggot who has nothing to do with KF coming in and deleting things/banning people.

2. Twitter. It made me realize I miss blogs. Yes, there were alot of dumb ones, but they were better for essays/independent journalism that couldn't justify a full 'news' site. Twitter seemed to grab all of this content, and people who before might have had a blog for interesting items will instead direct you to a 80 part tweet thread, oh never mind Twitter detached parts of it and now you have to go through infinite scroll for an hour to find it. Oh never mind the user is banned, so I guess its lost forever.

3. Pinterest. What the fuck is the point of this site? All I know is that it ruins image searches. I saw an article that MS attempted to buy it. You couldn't PAY me to take this site.
 
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