content: Dark Patterns Has anyone noticed the "Dark Patterns" Internet monopolies are now audacious enough to do infront of the slobbering masses who are too stupid to realize that in fact, corporations are manipulating them and "tricking" them in various ways on every massive internet service. Yes this is an old thing(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pattern), but now they aren't even hiding it anymore. I've known about Dark Patterns for years and I think you should know too if you have critical personality. These two happened to me recently: 1: LinkedIn fails to unsubscribe me from spam emails. I keep getting "notifications" from linkedin on gmail "social" tab, but those are actually just concealed ads and it's very obvious to me there is collusion(they make a big flashy popup that catches your eye). I also notice, that even if I click on the tab and read the email/advertizement, it is not marked as read an hour later, and the popup comes up again. So I unsubbed from linked in to stop this, I press the "unsubscribe" button, and what do you know, the next day I got two new emails from linked in to notify me that there are jobs availible in my area or that they wanted to know my salary, some bullshit(you'll never find a job on linkedIn, trust me). So I had to RE-unsubscribe, because they know that the mass average user is stupid and sheepish enough to question himself, thinking he mis-remembered, rather than the higher authority of a tech monopoly.  Case 2: Youtube automatically subscribes me to bullshit entertainment channels to try to waste my time. And puts them on my feed. So yes, I never subbed or watch "Highdeology", it is a shitty channel for canhead babybrains, I dont need to waste my time on some talking head babbling for hours. Yet youtube keeps recommending their videos, and now I noticed they had AUTOMATICALLY subbed me because they are suddenly at the top of my "subscriptions" list with a big flashing red- live indicator. No youtube, I dont want to watch baby brain videos. On top of that, I tried blocking reccomended videos and the sidebar using uBlock, but they obviously took care of that because if you block those elements, they make sure you cant even access any content by making all content included in this element. These are dark patterns and there are many others, many I have been infuriated by. Even amazon prime kind of is one. Just be aware that because the public IQ is in free fall, internet giants are using more and more obvious gimmicks to waste your time and turn your brain into babby goo-goo and ruin your productivity, This is on purpose. They want idiocracy.