MS is so fucking bad at this that, when it wants you to use a certain product, it smears it over and over on your snout until you get a negative reaction from just seeing it. It was the same thing with WMP and then Edge.
Serious now. I often use “snout” in this context to highlight how dehumanising this Big Tech behaviour is. It treats you not as a reasonable human being, able to take decisions by oneself; but as cattle to be herded. As if saying ‘users should be herded, not heard’.
Day 14,269: The pink apes still haven’t discovered my ruse… I’m beginning to question the humans’ cognitive spread as a species, and by extension, its longevity in the cosmic scheme of things…
MS is so fucking bad at this that, when it wants you to use a certain product, it smears it over and over on your snout until you get a negative reaction from just seeing it. It was the same thing with WMP and then Edge.
I don’t have a snout. 🥲
Snoutlet! Snoutlet! 🤣
Serious now. I often use “snout” in this context to highlight how dehumanising this Big Tech behaviour is. It treats you not as a reasonable human being, able to take decisions by oneself; but as cattle to be herded. As if saying ‘users should be herded, not heard’.
In the Internet nobody knows if you’re a dog.
Day 14,269: The pink apes still haven’t discovered my ruse… I’m beginning to question the humans’ cognitive spread as a species, and by extension, its longevity in the cosmic scheme of things…