Nothing angers me in precisely the same way as getting advertised to by something I have already paid money for. Like, ad-supported "free" products are nasty and exploitative, sure sure sure, but I get it. It's the only way to approximate a public commons in our capitalist hellscape. I can swallow that.
But when I have paid hundreds of my own dollars for a video game console or a television, and I boot up this new device that I personally own, which should now exist for the sole purpose of doing my bidding, and it has the audacity to show me advertisements, I am incensed. Was the money I paid not enough? Must this machine try to squeeze blood from my stone-hard heart?
I do not want your disney plus. I do not want your netflix. I do not want your apple teevee. I will pirate everything you make and even still I will look upon it with scorn for the circumstances of its polluted creation. I will pray every day for the collapse of your faceless empires of rot, and hope that one day I will awaken to a culture freed from the shackles you place upon it.
by which i mean i use it to watch youtube, plex, twitch and our one (1) subscription service Crunchyroll
and yet the top bar of the "TV and Video" menu, the part your cursor is on right when you click it open, is packed full of apps that i don't have subscriptions for and don't have downloaded on our ps4. netflix, hulu, freevee, disney plus, hbomax, peacock, pluto tv, just a ton of these. i have to scroll down to even FIND the apps we DO have downloaded, passing a shit ton of ads for shows on apps i DON'T have, with no visible information about new updates or streams on the few apps i DO.
every day i come across multiple examples of the modern design philosophy of "make it as shitty and confusing as possible while keeping it JUUUUST usable enough to stop people from really complaining". that is our current standard mode of design. we live in a Bad Design Dystopia thanks to capitalism. but this is a really egregious example, tbh
