“They just don’t make things like they used to!” Sentences like this often elicit rolled eyes from kids and teens, especially if they heard their parents say it. But once you’re an adult, you realize that they’re totally right. Despite the fact that technology is supposedly advancing, it seems like everything around us is getting worse…
If you’re tired of your phone battery draining immediately, the quality of clothing being way worse than it was when you were a kid, and every company cutting corners to save money, you’ve come to the right place, pandas. Here’s a list of relatable (albeit depressing) photos from an online community that calls out products and services that companies have actively made worse over the years.
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They're Editing Digital Books To Contain Ads Now
Anyone Still Watching The News?
Enshittification And Corporate Greed Are Coming For Every Industry
Self Checkout
The Enshittification Of Our Brains On Chatgpt
Can't Even Do My Laundry Without Dealing With This Nonsense
EU Huge Step On Protection Of Consumers
The cost to replace the component includes labor. Have you ever worked on a smart phone?
I Can’t Delay Start My Dishwasher Without An App, And The App Sends Me Advertisements
We've Reached A New Low, Ads On The Sinks In The Gym Bathroom
Cgi Is Actually Magnificent, As Long As You Allow The Time And Budget To Do It Properly
This Is Painful
This is the result of a lawsuit against McDonald's, that claimed that McD's was targeting children to make them grow up obese and dependent. They were barred from all directed advertising and appeal to children in their restaurants, s they had to pivot to the adult coffee crowd.
Purchased Movies Will No Longer Be Accessible, Thanks Sony!
They have a strange definition of the word "Purchase. "Money can be exchanged for goods and services" Homer Simpson's Brain.
When Digital Menus Randomly Change To A 30s Advert, Making The Menu As A TV Pointless
Hp Forces You To Replace Your Ink Cartridges After Canceling Your Subscription
My printer has no need for internet connectivity. This is one of the reasons.
What A Time To Be Alive
Reddit Now Shows Ads That Look Like Comments
They Knew What They Were Doing
It Gets Worse. They Posted This And It Turns Out The Guy Gave The Money To The Person Who Lost It
He's 76 Years Old Man
When Did Hotels Get So Much Worse?
Pictured above- hotel removed refrigerator. I travel a bunch for work, although I’m currently an unpaid intern. I’ve noticed how much worse hotels have gotten in the last few years. Some of the stuff I’ve seen in the last few months include-
$25 charge every time you want to use a luggage cart
$16 a day for Wi-Fi, $20 a day for decent wi-fi
$20 a day for parking in a non-urban area
Removal of ice machines
No ability to do your own laundry on site
I need all of the above- and all of this seems pretty standard for a mid-priced hotel. Apparently not anymore. Now I’m just sad that my leftover Italian food I had for late night work is going to go bad.
The USA in 2026 is "MONETIZE EVERYTHING!" It's one of the worst things we could ever do.
This Thinly Veiled Gambling Bull Directed At Kids
I know the "collect em all" tactic has been around since baseball cards but these godforsaken balls taking over toy aisle are especially egregious IMO. And expensive.
The Visible Difference Between Old And New Pyrex
Every Platform Speedrunning Its Own Downfall
No It Doesn't
Cottonelle What Are You Doing Babygirl
Left is old TP from another brand, right is new Cottonelle. I wonder if I'd have even noticed unless I saw them side by side like this inadvertently. Good luck to you if you have large hands, some of your fingers may be participating as well.
Imagine If Everything Else Kept Up
Lets translate this into McDonald's Hamburgers for fun. In 1974 a quarter pounder with cheese cost $0.70. Now it's about $6. That's about 8.5X. That multiplier would make a Disney Ticket still less than $30 today. This is a 54X increase. Take with you this information as you will
I Guess They Could Just Stare At The Wall?
This is TV rental in a hospital according to the Reddit title of this post: "Wife is in hospital, I was curious of TV service".
Can We Go Back To The Old Internet?
Youtube Is Now Blocking Vpns
Mounds Don’t Even Use Real Chocolate Anymore
Most American Chocolate hasn't been cholate for a few decades.
My Premium Spotify Runs Out Of Audiobook Listening Hours…
Wait…we Are Now Only Allowed To See 8 Cherry-Picked Reviews, And Can No Longer Sort By “Most Recent” Or Filter By Star-Rating? Wtf Is Happening?
Google Search: The Word "Crumble" Is Now Being Treated As A Misspelling Of "Crumbl" As In The Cookie Chain
Has Anyone Else Noticed That Non-Scratch Sponges Start Disintegrating Immediately Now?
$9 For This…
Bandaids Look Like They Are Deteriorating After Just A Couple Of Hours
From "My Computer" To "This PC"
Tyson Chicken Tenders From Costco = More Than Half Breading Bits
Take A Feature Away And Sell It Back To Me In The Same Email, Really Tivo?
Electronic Shelf Labels May Use Your Data Profile To Make You Pay Different Prices
24 Hour Fitness Had The Biggest Fall Off.... I Miss Swimming, Sauna, Basketball At 1am
Holy Moly Has Google Search Been Absolutely Lobotomized
Even Reportoftheweek Is Feeling It
TSA Gets In On The Grift
Amazon Enshittification
The Ice Cream Keeps Getting Smaller Without Updating The Picture
Youtube Is Spiraling
Sorry I'll Be Late To Work I Had To Update My Doorbell
Psa: Rosetta Stone Is "Bricking" Permanent Licenses To Force Users Into Subscriptions
Dickies Has Lost The Plot
My Car Radio Is Displaying Ads For United Healthcare
Wendy's Interior - They Just Remodeled In The Last Year Or So
Reddit Has Now Entirely Defeated The Purpose Of Anonymous Browsing…
Everything Is A Scam Now
Removed "No Preservatives" And Changed Real Fruit To Whole Fruit Whatever That Means
Mcdonald’s Ending Self-Serve Soda Machines Nationwide
Sweethearts Are Barely Legible
Do they still make these? They were called conversation lollies in Australia when I was a child.
My Local Panera Removed Almost All The Outlets And Replaced Them With Blanking Plates So You Can't Charge Your Phone Or Laptop
Youtube Has Entirely Removed Dislikes On Shorts And Replaced The Like Button With A Heart Button
The "Youtube-shorts block" addon converts shorts to a normal Youtube video, which has the dislike button, combine with "Restore Youtube Dislikes" addon to see estimated dislike numbers. Note: I only using Firefox and Waterfox, don't have Chrome or any Chromium browser, can't check if these addons are on there.
Breyers’ Cookies & Cream Is Not Ice Cream
F! Jimmy John’s!!
I got a tuna sub from them. It was kinda like a tuna paste smeared on the bread, no actual lumps of tuna, filled the bread up with lettuce and very thinly sliced tomato. Never again.
