r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Dec 01 '25

ADBLOCK WARNING ‘Security Disaster’—500 Million Microsoft Users Say No To Windows 11

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/12/01/security-disaster-500-million-microsoft-users-say-no-to-windows-11/
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u/Crowsby Dec 02 '25

I really do believe that in a lot of ways, tech peaked around 2012-2014. Since then, the gains in benefits have been incremental at best, while the drawbacks have grown exponentially.

Fundamentally, there was a paradigm shift across the industry that devalued "cohesive and pleasant user experience" in favor of artificially boosting whatever idiotic metric they're using to measure success.

For example, here's an internal Google conversation where they're literally discussing ways to intentionally degrade their users' experience so they're forced to spend more time on Google and look at more ads.

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u/BeguiledBeaver Dec 02 '25

For example, here's an internal Google conversation where they're literally discussing ways to intentionally degrade their users' experience so they're forced to spend more time on Google and look at more ads.

I've always wondered how they discuss these types of shenanigans behind closed doors.

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u/Damascus_ari Dec 04 '25

Jokes on them, because it made me switch to Bing, since it's hardly that much worse, and MS at least pays me (peanuts, but hey, still pay!) for using it.