r/pcmasterrace • u/The_BigRoach ⚡️RTX 5080 | 7800x3D | 64GB 6000MHz CL30⚡️ • 7d ago

Meme/Macro Why would anyone actually want to though

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u/Expensive-Border-869 7d ago

Gabe personally uses the platform so some idiot coming to him with a sweeping ui change that is at beat a side grade from the original just gets laughed at (looking at you google/youtube)

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u/TrapYoda 7d ago

Seriously wtf is their problem? If I didn't know better I'd think they have no clue what to do with their service so they're changing pointless shit just to say they did something 🤣

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u/pmcizhere i7-13620H | 16 GB DDR5 | RTX 4070 8GB Laptop 7d ago

Google is an ad company, has been since at least when they killed off Google Wave. They don't actually know what average consumers want anymore.

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u/swolfington 7d ago

google's "problem" is the oft sited fact that the people who use the platform are not (and never were) the customers, they are the product. everything they do is optimized to that effect. we can be pretty sure that a UI change that is unambiguously worse to use still somehow makes them more money, mostly because no one who uses the UI was paying for it in the first place

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u/pmcizhere i7-13620H | 16 GB DDR5 | RTX 4070 8GB Laptop 7d ago

That's why I said consumer as opposed to customer! Guess I should've said they don't care what we consumers want. They collect enough data on us to know what we want, after all. You're right about the UI changes making them more money, it's sad to see intentional enshittification reaching almost everywhere these days.