diff --git a/content/news/152-every-major-tech-company-hates-you.md b/content/news/152-every-major-tech-company-hates-you.md index fee22bf5..37d236bb 100644 --- a/content/news/152-every-major-tech-company-hates-you.md +++ b/content/news/152-every-major-tech-company-hates-you.md @@ -5,13 +5,13 @@ date: '2019-01-01 00:00:00' --- Every major internet proactively _damages_ user experience to serve their own interests. -In a competitive economy, this is exceedingly unusual. But we'll discuss the why later. First, let's define the problem. +In a competitive economy, this is exceedingly unusual. But before we get to the why, let's define the problem. ## The Problem -Claim: All of the largest consumer internet company actively spend their time and resources engineering degradations in user-experience. +Claim: Every large consumer internet company actively spends their time and resources engineering degradations in user-experience. -Below are examples from Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Reddit, and YouTube. +Below are examples from Facebook, Apple, Reddit, and YouTube. This is not meant to be an exhaustive list of user hostility, but instead to provide an unambiguous example for each. @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Facebook had (has!) a fully working, web-based version of their messaging platfo They actively disabled on mobile to force more downloads of the app. -![Hostile Facebook Messenger](https://spee.ch/@hostiletech/facebookmessenger2.jpg) +![Hostile Facebook Messenger](https://spee.ch/@hostiletech/facebookmessanger2.jpg) ### Apple @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Evidently, Reddit _really_ wants people to use their mobile app. It current takes five clicks to view a GIF hosted on a non-Reddit site on mobile. It used to take one. -![Hostile Reddit Mobile](https://spee.ch/@hostiletech/redditmobile.gif) +