Ed Zitron: "Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back." #SiliconValley #BillionairesShouldNotExist #Enshittification #SurveillanceCapatilism wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-…
Oh look, a new low in passive- aggressive customer retention emails just dropped.
This one is truly special:
looking ominously at the viewer
Are you safe from Duo?
Is this a threat? Some kind of clumsy blackmail?
..but was it enough to keep Duo happy?
Is Duo a pimp, a local gangster? Have Duo completely lost it?
She can't take the #enshittification no more, she's learning with another guy now!
Can't Duo take a hint: she ain't coming back?
Based on the thirst trap photo, I'm guessing the secret to staying warm in a camper during a blizzard would start with putting on a damn shirt on, then a sweatshirt. YouTube signal to noise ratio has gone from bad to horrible recently. Sadly, still better than Tik Tok though... #enshittification
this is something i can totally agree to. that was the basic reason i finally ended up with hubzilla. and i don't see any reason to change that atm ....
I don't know why Bluesky hasn't added the federation systems that would enable freedom of exit to its service. Perhaps there are excellent technical reasons to prioritize rolling out the other systems they've created so far. Frankly, it doesn't matter. So long as Bluesky can be a trap, I won't let myself be tempted. My rule – I don't join a service that I can't leave without switching costs – is my Ulysses Pact, and it's keeping me safe from danger I've sailed into too many times before.
#CoryDoctorow #enshittification #mastodon #bluesky
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Bluesky and enshittification; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/
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@David - original post
Pluralistic: You should be using an RSS reader (16 Oct 2024)
https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid/
And then I had a realization: the conduit through which I experience Molly's excellent work is totally enshittification-proof, and the more I use it, the easier it is for everyone to be less enshittified.
This conduit is anti-lock-in, it works for nearly the whole internet. It is surveillance-resistant, far more accessible than the web or any mobile app interface. It is my secret super-power.
It's RSS.
#shit #shitty #enshittification #rss #cory #doctorow #cory-doctorow #rss-reader
QuiteRSS is a open-source cross-platform RSS/Atom news feeds reader written on Qt/C++
Idea: Quite fast and comfortable to user
Links:
Website: https://quiterss.org
Git repository: https://github.com/QuiteRSS/quiterss
Issue tracker: https://github.com/QuiteRSS/quiterss/issues
Translations: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/quiterss/
https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid/
And then I had a realization: the conduit through which I experience Molly's excellent work is totally enshittification-proof, and the more I use it, the easier it is for everyone to be less enshittified.\
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This conduit is anti-lock-in, it works for nearly the whole internet. It is surveillance-resistant, far more accessible than the web or any mobile app interface. It is my secret super-power.\
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It's RSS.
#shit #shitty #enshittification #rss #cory #doctorow #cory-doctorow #rss-reader
Friends don't let friends buy any HP product.
♲ Dr. Brad Rosenheim - 2024-10-03 21:14:30 GMT
My wife is on the phone with HP and looks exasperated. We had a working printer that, in my opinion, was surveiling us too much. It knew when our ink cartridges were almost empty and had our credit card number so it could send us new cartridges when we needed them. My wife loved that because ink cartridges always go dry right when you need them, and it was getting more difficult to find the proper cartridges. Yes, the printer knew if we installed third party cartridges.But, the credit card on file just passed the expiration date, and the printer magically stopped working. That is why she is calling. And, of course, they are telling us it is obsolete and we should big a new one with even MORE surveillance! That, folks, is #enshittification
#cons #hackadaycolumns #2023hackadaysupercon #2023hackadaysuperconference #competition #enshittification #federaltradecommission #hackadaysuperconference #keynote #newgoodweb #politics #publicpolicy #techindustry #workers #hackaday
posted by pod_feeder_v2
https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/17/hack-the-planet/#how-about-a-nice-game-of-chess
What the fuck happened to the old, good internet?\
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I mean, sure, our bosses were a little surveillance-happy, and they were usually up for sharing their data with the NSA, and whenever there was a tossup between user security and growth, it was always YOLO time.\
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But Google Search used to work. Facebook used to show you posts from people you followed. Uber used to be cheaper than a taxi and pay the driver more than a cabbie made. Amazon used to sell products, not Shein-grade self-destructing dropshipped garbage from all-consonant brands. Apple used to defend your privacy, rather than spying on you with your no-modifications-allowed Iphone.\
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There was a time when you searching for an album on Spotify would get you that album – not a playlist of insipid AI-generated covers with the same name and art.\
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Microsoft used to sell you software – sure, it was buggy – but now they just let you access apps in the cloud, so they can watch how you use those apps and strip the features you use the most out of the basic tier and turn them into an upcharge.\
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What – and I cannot stress this enough – the fuck happened?!\
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I’m talking about enshittification.
#doctorow #cory #cory-doctorow #enshittification #disenshittify #internet #web #amazon #google #microsoft #facebook #apple
https://tweesecake.social/@weirdwriter/112465274302648993 weirdwriter@tweesecake.social - Ugh! So #Libby is selling our data, not shocking after they were acquired... but there are alternatives that are below that public libraries can use! I personally recommend libraries use the Palace Project because of their #Accessibility focused design but links are below!
For the Libby #Enshittification background, read https://buttondown.email/ninelives/archive/the-coming-enshittification-of-public-libraries/
Part 2 https://buttondown.email/ninelives/archive/a-novel-a-wedding-and-some-heavy-petting/
For the targeted ad investigation, read https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/18/mystery_of_the_targeted_mobile_ads/
One of them is Library Simplified https://librarysimplified.org/get-started/
The Palace Project looks awesome and is fully accessible, screen reader wise! Librarians should check out https://thepalaceproject.org/platform/
The #enshittification of the #internet - a scathing takedown of the big tech companies #Meta #Google #Twitter #AI
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-great-looting-of-the-internet/
#torrent-freak #internet-archive #ia #freedom #liberty #library #libraries #ebook #ebooks #lawsuit #price-gouging #enshittification #library-freedom #book-publishers #lawsuit
https://mastodon.social/@maxleibman/112055200503517307 maxleibman@mastodon.social - "If we don't write content tailored to the algorithm, no one will see our work.”
If you are specifically writing content for the algorithm, nobody needs to see your work.
#enshittification #SEO #ContentFarming
The term enshittification became popular in 2023 after it was used in a blog post by author Cory Doctorow, who used it to describe how digital platforms can become worse and worse. “Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification,” Doctorow wrote on his Pluralistic blog.
https://americandialect.org/2023-word-of-the-year-is-enshittification/
Sep 14, 2023
"The #enshittification of the internet follows a predictable trajectory: first, platforms are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. It doesn't have to be this way. Enshittification occurs when companies gobble each other up in an orgy of mergers and acquisitions, reducing the internet to "five giant websites filled with screenshots of text from the other four" (credit to Tom Eastman!), which lets them endlessly tweak their back-ends to continue to shift value from users and business-customers to themselves. The government gets in on the act by banning tweaking by users - reverse-engineering, scraping, bots and other user-side self-help measures - leaving users helpless before the march of enshittification. We don't have to accept this! Disenshittifying the internet will require antitrust, limits on corporate tweaking - through privacy laws and other protections - and aggressive self-help measures from alternative app stores to ad blockers and beyond!"
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