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CawoMedia. You were the victim of a con.

You have more than likely said to yourself some time in the last few years, even 10 years, that you just didn't get tech, or you getting too old, or that tech's gotten away from you, because you found a service or an app or your computer annoying.

You or someone you love have convinced themselves that their inability to use something

is a sign that they are deficient, that they've failed to keep up with the times,

as if the things we use every day should be in the constant state of flux.

You're listening to Better Offline, and I'm Ed Zittron.

And this is the two-part episode that ends this season of Better Offline,

and it's about the true scale of the rot economy,

and how the tech industry is waging an endless, invisible war against the user. And we're losing, by the way. We're losing really badly.

They're slowly taking everything away, adding tolls and growth hacks around basically every

part of our lives, and they can't even give us the dignity of making sure the things that make

them billions keep functioning.

No, no, no, no. They have to twist them at every goddamn corner to make them more profitable,

because they know in many cases that we have nowhere else to go. Think about it. The tools we use

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