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Pope Leo XIV's encyclical Magnifica Humanitas calls out big tech for prioritizing profit over humanity, inspiring this satirical list of 40 tech frustrations — from broken tracking codes to unskippable app downloads — arguing that tech's real problem isn't bad PR, but bad intentions.
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