AssholeDesign

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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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Google deleted an open source app I love (install from F-Droid) for being "Fake" (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by vis4valentine@lemmy.ml to c/assholedesign@lemmy.world

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[–] cooopsspace@infosec.pub 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah and imagine if Google decided they don't like your small business and ruins your livelihood overnight.

In no time you'll lose your house to a bank, all because a company that you have little association with chose to.

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can’t even imagine what pernicious elements they can add to it to bog down someone’s website too. They don’t even have to introduce it on purpose, if it’s just a byproduct they can shrug and not worry about it. It’s shocking how much traffic you lose if your website takes three seconds to load.

Everyone should switch to Firefox/Mullvad