The article critiques the current state of the internet, emphasizing how user experiences have been negatively impacted by intrusive ads, ineffective customer service, and monopolistic practices. Ed Zitron refers to this phenomenon as the "rot economy," reflecting a tech industry's fixation on growth at the expense of providing value to users. Zitron discusses the stagnation of major companies and the potential for startups to disrupt these inefficient systems, identifying social media as one of the most likely sectors for change.
You can beat that. Anything you see on the web that sucks right now is at threat.
They're ugly, they're expensive, they don't work very well, you don't like using them.
The tech industry has become so obsessed with growth that you, the paying customer, are a nuisance.
To use Instagram right now is to fight Meta to receive basic user experience.
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