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diane_a@diasp.org
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Today, I dread opening the Spotify app. The main screen is littered with podcasts I don’t care about, nor have I ever listened to. It keeps pushing playlists that feel generic, bland, more based on demographics than my years of consistent listening history. And there is nothing I can do about it.
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The main screen on Spotify is not user-customizable. There is no way for me to signal that I truly, really don’t care about that podcast and I haven’t cared about it once since you have been pushing it for the last 18 months!
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Today, I have to scroll for a long time before finding anything remotely interesting on the Spotify main page. The alternative is plain old search and playing on repeat the same dozen curated playlists.
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The lack of customization feels like a slap. Like Spotify designers telling me β€œyou don’t know what you want, we know better,” but the problem is they don’t, and they haven’t for a long time.

https://blog.raed.dev/posts/goodbye_spotify

#enshitification #spotify

The day I canceled my Spotify subscription

I used to be a big fan of Spotify. Today I cancelled my subscription.

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diane_a@diasp.org
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We could have had world peace. Except this walking cancer infected everything he touched. He even walked the halls in Google. The master of #enshitification himself.

Henry Kissinger Prevented Peace in the Middle East

Let’s not forget that Kissinger’s crimes included the deaths of thousands of Arabs and Israelis.

https://theintercept.com/2023/11/30/henry-kissinger-israel-egypt-soviet-union/

On Top of Everything Else, Henry Kissinger Prevented Peace in the Middle East

There’s lots to remember, but let’s leave some space for the deaths of thousands of Arabs and Israelis on the list of Kissinger’s crimes.

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prplcdclnw@diasp.eu
David

"If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"

by Cory Doctorow

https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/

As Tyler James Hill wrote: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing":\
https://bsky.app/profile/tylerjameshill.bsky.social/post/3kflw2lvam42n

I proposed that all Wired endorsements for DRM-encumbered products should come with this disclaimer:\
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WARNING: THIS DEVICE’S FEATURES ARE SUBJECT TO REVOCATION WITHOUT NOTICE, ACCORDING TO TERMS SET OUT IN SECRET NEGOTIATIONS. YOUR INVESTMENT IS CONTINGENT ON THE GOODWILL OF THE WORLD’S MOST PARANOID, TECHNOPHOBIC ENTERTAINMENT EXECS. THIS DEVICE AND DEVICES LIKE IT ARE TYPICALLY USED TO CHARGE YOU FOR THINGS YOU USED TO GET FOR FREE β€” BE SURE TO FACTOR IN THE PRICE OF BUYING ALL YOUR MEDIA OVER AND OVER AGAIN. AT NO TIME IN HISTORY HAS ANY ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY GOTTEN A SWEET DEAL LIKE THIS FROM THE ELECTRONICS PEOPLE, BUT THIS TIME THEY’RE GETTING A TOTAL WALK. HERE, PUT THIS IN YOUR MOUTH, IT’LL MUFFLE YOUR WHIMPERS.\
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Wired didn't take me up on this suggestion.

Everybody loves this racket. In Poland, a team of security researchers at the OhMyHack conference just presented their teardown of the anti-repair features in NEWAG Impuls locomotives. NEWAG boobytrapped their trains to try and detect if they've been independently serviced, and to respond to any unauthorized repairs by bricking themselves:\
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https://mamot.fr/@q3k@hackerspace.pl/111528162905209453 \
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Poland is part of the EU, meaning that they are required to uphold the provisions of the 2001 EU Copyright Directive, including Article 6, which bans this kind of reverse-engineering. The researchers are planning to present their work again at the Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg this month – Germany is also a party to the EUCD. The threat to researchers from presenting this work is real – but so is the threat to conferences that host them:\
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https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/researchers-face-legal-threats-over-sdmi-hack/

#drm #playstation #wired #hewlett-packard #printer-ink #ownership #piracy #copying #enshitification #right-to-repair #reverse-engineering #rentiers #ip #intellectual-property

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diane_a@diasp.org
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#enshitification

#Google announced that starting in June 2024, ad blockers such as #uBlock Origin will be disabled in Chrome 127 and later with the rollout of Manifest V3

The new #Chrome manifest will prevent using custom filters and stops on demand updates of blocklist. Only #Google authorized updates to browser extension will be allowed in the future, which mean an automatic win for Google in their battle to stop YouTube #AdBlockers .

ManifestV3 is deceitful and threatening to your privacy, and now is a good time to switch to #Firefox and/or #TorBrowser if you haven't done so already!

EFF (@eff) on Google’s Manifest V3:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/googles-manifest-v3-still-hurts-privacy-security-innovation

Chrome Manifest V3 Transition Timeline (2023-11-16)

⁠https://developer.chrome.com/blog/resuming-the-transition-to-mv3/

Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 is Deceitful and Threatening

Manifest V3, Google Chrome’s soon-to-be definitive basket of changes to the world of web browser extensions, has been framed by its authors as β€œa step in the direction of privacy, security, and performance.” But we think these changes are a raw...

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