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by black_puppydog 1536 days ago
It seems quaint now since we all got so used to it, but this is called an anti-feature. Someone spent engineering time (and every customer is paying for that) to make this thing less useful.

I used to be up in arms about this after watching Benjamin Mako Hill's talk in 2010: https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/antifeatures-talk

In Hindsight, this was one of the first times during my university days that I thought "maybe tech isn't going the right way."