link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33675112
this thread is filled with insane shit
all about things technology has done to actively make life worse for us all
On the ethical side I built a paywall for a billion dollar news company and stoped people from bypassing it, then they change the cancel button for a call customer support button to effectively steal money from the elderly etc who signed up but don’t want to go through the long cancel process
I spent a day on the phone playing operator tag while trying to cancel my Houston Chronicle subscription. At the end, I just called my credit card and told them to stop payment.