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Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension (www.pcworld.com)
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  • A Chrome extension called “Microsoft to Microslop” that renames Microsoft references in browsers as a protest against the company’s aggressive AI integration.
  • The extension reflects widespread user frustration with Microsoft’s Copilot AI, which faces extremely low adoption rates and growing privacy concerns among Windows users.
  • Many users actively seek ways to remove AI features from Windows, highlighting significant backlash against Microsoft’s AI strategy despite CEO dismissals of complaints.
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[–] OnfireNFS@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This reminds me of the old cloud to butt extension

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 hours ago

Yeah and it's just as stupid

[–] yamper@piefed.social 10 points 1 day ago

at one of my jobs a long time ago a copywriter had that extension on their work machine and published something like "upload files to my butt" to the official company site

[–] audaxdreik@pawb.social 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have this working theory that the cloud to butt extension was the beginning of the downfall.

It was the point where the techies began to see the absurdity of the "just jam X into it" trend of technology development and got so frustrated at it they developed a childish (affectionate) extension to vent their disgust. Came out around 2013ish or so?

And over the past ~decade and a half, have we not seen that born out to the extreme? It's around the time I felt myself start to get cynical and stop following tech news.

[–] RavuAlHemio@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I wouldn’t say the extension was the beginning of the downfall; that implies