I’m so glad I grew up when I did and got to experience video games before they began injecting overt political messaging into games.

The New Yorker launched a redesigned home page in late 2023, having reached a similar conclusion.

Oh boy let’s check it out.

newyorker.com attempts to load js and frames from eight third party domains. Among them;

“conde.digital” – I am assuming that means conde as in conde nast AKA reddit DNA… and we all know what happens to anything reddit touches.

“condenast.digital” above confirmed. I can almost feel the bile welling in my throat.

“cookielaw.org” - probably to serve cookie consent notices to the plebs who fail to block cookies and other trash.

“doubleclick.net” - known malware

“googletagmanager.com” - so that google can keep track of all their cattle.

And yet all of their articles are perfectly readable in plain HTML formatting, as expected. Not that I would ever spend any time reading articles from whatever this place is.

Block both javascript and CSS. Most of those nags are implemented via some combination of the two.

Google workspace

Dystopia is real

Only a few more steps until “Google Government”

The internet is srs business

Used to be a meme mocking people who took internet drama too seriously.

But, in a paradoxical twist, today everyone is on the internet and the very people that used to mock now outnumber us.

Many immunocompromised people would be risking their lives by going to in person meetings

Here lies Sam Smith. He went to a meeting and later died because of it.

Many queer people live in areas where even so much as giving a hint of your queerness can be dangerous.

Like going to a store out in the country in a dress as a biological male. And leaving successfully with your groceries because actually nobody cares despite all the stereotypes and fearmongering.

If nobody is there for these people to reach out to, many just die.

In what ways? Examples?

This would accelerate the fediverse to becoming a monoculture of thought.