Comment by browningstreet
21 hours ago
The problem with this, I've found, is that you end up skipping a lot of things, and then find out later on that features were introduced years ago that you've wished, throughout the interim, existed. It's hard to keep up.
I wish there was regulation enforcing background colors for ads.
The solution to the plague of ads is to just stop buying so much shit. Most the stuff we buy shouldn’t even exist in the first place.
> Most the stuff we buy shouldn’t even exist in the first place.
But how would we know what should or shouldn't exist, if someone doesn't bring it into existence first so we can figure it out?
For example: most small, plastic toys should not exist, regardless of how many people might want them. They’re essentially mass-manufactured pollution that harms the global environment. Sure, you can find positive effects of them, but I argue those effects are not worth the downsides.
There are many other things that would be a net positive of they didn’t exist.
Just because something can exist, just because some people might want it to exist, doesn’t mean we’re better off. Honestly I think the Amish and their measured approach to technology is correct (though my rubric would be different than theirs).
> The problem with this, I've found, is that you end up skipping a lot of things
The solution is to stop caring so much about what you miss. Whatever it is, it’s not worth the unrelenting assault on your senses.
Replace your FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) with JOMO (Joy Of Missing Out).
We should just have an <advertisement> tag in HTML, regulation could then require it.
Yeah, but that's just moving the goal post. They'll find some way to get around having to do it.
I'm okay with missing things. As I got older, I cared less and less about being aware of everything out there, and I was glad I got the thing done I needed so I could spend time with my family.