Website review: Antifeatures by Benjamin Mako Hill ...
JRepin discovered this in Science/Tech
•3 reviews since May 21, 2008
science, technology, computers
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JRepin discovered 4 months ago- Anti-features are features almost no one wants but you have to pay them NOT to include.
- shewitt-au rated 4 months ago
- Antifeatures by Benjamin Mako Hill
- oniTony rated 4 months ago
- Simple put: "Like blackmail, users can sometimes pay technology providers to not include an antifeature in their technology."
This is likely more annoying with software (especially ad-driven software anti-features, like popups we used to have with IE), though the practice is surprisingly (or maybe not) common across many technology sectors.
My favourite "blow-your-mind" anti-feature lies in the fact that some of today's single-core CPU chips are actually your typical dual-core chips with one half of it disabled. - Simple put: "Like blackmail, users can sometimes pay technology providers to not include an antifeature in their technology."
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