What’s a problem that didn’t exist 10 years ago but is now everywhere?

I'm gonna be honest television at least in Australia in 2010 felt like this anyway lol The average time between ads was always two game show questions

Blink and you miss the actual content..

Most companies do this now, they create a product, ruin it with ads and now expect users to pay to use their platforms ads-free

And even better if they're all unskippable.

Every time I use an Adobe product I think "brother can I just pay you can I just give you money and then never talk to you again can I not have to sign in through this stupid cloud subscription software every time I wanna use Photoshop or substance painter"

I refuse to comply. My only "subscriptions" are my Internet bill and Rent payment, basically. Well, and the VPS I rent I suppose. I still use Photoshop CS6, and Office 2016. There's later versions of office that are perpetually licensed, but haven't seen a need to purchase them. Apparently you can pirate later Photoshop Versions, which is funny as hell. For software it seems insane to me, to be honest. Like, Photoshop CS6 was $699 for example. Now a subscription for Photoshop is around $20/mo. Wow! So much more affordable, right? I've had CS6 for over 10 years now, though. After only 5 years of this subscription offering I'd have given Adobe almost twice the one-time cost of CS6... and I still won't "own" the software, if I stop giving them money every month they get to keep all the money I gave them and I lose access to the software. I don't think much better of say streaming services, really. Never even got on board with music or TV streaming. never even used Netflix or Hulu or spotify for example, I'm sure as hell not paying for their "premium" versions or whatever. It's all bank account scratch damage, IMO. a few dollars here and there and everywhere a month adds up pretty fast IMO. Once I get *one* subscription, it won't be a mental leap for me to justify another, then another, and so on, and now I'm like everybody else, deluged in subscriptions and thinking I had no choice in the matter.

Not really, you can still buy lots and lots of software still (like games for example). And on top of that lots of software is free, and were so even 10 years ago.

Including the computation power, storage etc.

Look, humans are as stupid as they are smart. Even after the invention of the telescope and people looking through these telescopes at moons circling Jupiter, it took *2 MORE ENTIRE GENERATIONS* for it to become widely accepted that the Bible lied and the telescopes were correct. Two generations of people later for everyone to finally accept that the earth was not the center of the universe. It's not just social media that creates a cult like denial of reality. It's ingrained in our psyche, for some reason that probably has a scientific explanation that I'm unable to comprehend.

That definitely existed 10 years ago

Trump's electkionand Brexit were both ten years ago. This was definitely a thing ten years ago.

Buddy, 2016 was 10 years ago. This was a thing lol

When I was young I thought the internet could unite humanity and make it very hard to deceive people... the truth would be available for anybody who wanted to see. Boy was I naive.

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And appliances

Clothes, food, furniture, everything is poorer quality than it used to be. Clothes from the late 90s/early 2000s have held up nicely but anything new I buy is terrible

Lol they’ve been putting shitty Sirius XM subscriptions in cars since the early 2000s. You’re off by a decade and a half there

Can you mention any more specific examples? Streaming and subscription services have solved a lot of previous issues, hence why they are common now. Case in point: music streaming through subscriptions, it killed off music piracy and provided a simpler, easier and cheaper way to consume music legally.

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For real—I don’t mind the AI voices (mot everyone has the voice for YouTube) or even a script edited by AI, but there is a lot of junk out there now. I think the worst indicator is if the video doesn’t match the audio; that’s when I’m out. I actually stick around a video if I hear the AI voice power through a typo unbothered. At least I know the script had human error! PS Dash included for humor value.

Those were very much a thing ten years ago, but it feels like every year they get ever more insidious. I often think about how lucky I was to grow up in a time before social media, and by the time I started using it in Jr High and High School it was fairly innocuous like AIM and Myspace. By the time algorithms really started emerging and trying to shovel short form content at me my brain was fully formed and I was able to just opt out of it instead of getting sucked into the shit show.

You think in the last 10 years, out of the 4,540,000,000 years that Earth has existed, it has just now started to show?

I was about to go to a new doctor last week. Every step of the way something came up with the office procedures that didn't sit well with me. The last straw was being sent a set of form via email to sign before the appointment. Most standard insurance, billing and emergency contact info. One page was to consent to AI listening into the appointment in order to complete the electroinic medical record to free up the doctor to focus on you vs. keying in info into the forms on the computer screen. In the good old, days doc's took notes, left the room and dictated comments which would be "typed" up by a secretary to put into your records. Not it's an AI "machine" completing you record during the closed door appointment. One problem that's been discovered by some doctors and med centers is "hallucinations" by AI. Making mistakes or more likely adding details or sort of intentionally altering details patients communicate to the doctor. One example I saw was the doctor asked the patient if he/she had any allergies. The person said, "no". The doctor made the comment "It's good that you don't have a sulfa allergy' (probably thinking "I'd like to prescribe a sulfa based antibiotic." The AI interpreted that as the patient having a sulfa drug allgery. That went into the record. When teh doc reviewed it, she missed the detail. The patient's record was going to have that allergy record wrong. Someone else eventually caught the mistake. It wasn't a problem of no "hearing" correctly. AI just did what it wanted to do. Potentially affecting the patient's care later on. That was only one small problem with AI "working" in patient care. Docs have to review the records and sign off, but they are missing the mistakes. I think docs need to be worried. Most of the time your doc never lays hands on you. It's all Q & A. Nothing an AI machine couldn't do. If any physical exam was needed a nurse to do it and tell AI what it wants to know.

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My dad had a dog on his property as well as all his neighbors, he passed away, and the dog found a new home since then. raccoons, opossums, rabbits, vulutures, armidillos, and multiple others have moved in in place of one dog.

I would ban private pet ownership.

Eh, 10 years ago he was running so kind of a grey area.

It absolutely existed 10 years ago. You think all the platforms just came into existence in the last decade? Facebook has been around since the mid ‘00s

I used to read people's candid internet diaries more than 30 years ago.

Listnook being a prime example. Used to be full of interesting people and conversations.   Now its at least 80% AI c***.

Fascism as the height of American life. They run the country now.

Didnt see that comment coming on listnook

Probably more than one video.

> Mobile gambling and prediction markets Mobile gambling is new. Prediction markets were not new 10 years ago. Intrade existed from 2004 to 2012. PredictIt which is still around was founded in 2014. However, it is clear that some of the more serious negatives associated with them (e.g. threatened reporters to not report things which would cause very large amounts of money to be lost, or people in the US government engaging in insider trading about imminent military action) were largely not anticipated as problems when these markets were this small.

This makes no sense. Not only have they been around much longer than that, levels in blood serum have been declining for roughly 30 years now.

Heard him call it 'The Strait of Trump' on CBS evening news on 3/28/2026 and also added his next move is to take over Cuba, '...but you didn't hear it from me!"