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RE: #Enshittification as a service.

I've been seeing a lot of videos and blog posts about the resurgence of #piracy in response to #enshittification . A common note is that its a _service_ problem, not a _product_ problem which is correct.
A company that has known this from the get-go and has never

Searching the Internet in the past: you type a few keywords. You get a bunch of sites. You check these sites for the information you need.
Searching the Internet in the future: you type your question as a full sentence. You get an answer that may be complete bullshit. You ask for sources. You get a list of sources that may be entirely made up. You check the sources. They are an obvious #AI #slop…
#LLM #enshittification #NoAI #NoLLM

We had to get a new TV.
Which means a smart TV.
Which means my new TV, while looking sharper and using less energy, comes with an OS that does all it can to make it a pain to use as a monitor.
I can't get a home screen shortcut to my X1 box stick. I add it, the next day it's gone. 📺
#enshittification

The Pihole instance running on my laptop blocks about 21% of the DNS requests …. This is self-defense …
#Pihole #Enshittification

Enshittification wasn't an accident.
It also wasn't inevitable.
This isn't the iron laws of economics at work, nor is it the great forces of history
#Enshittification was a choice:
Known individuals, in living memory, enacted policies that created the enshittogenic environment.
They created a world that encouraged tech companies to merge to monopoly,

Can I turn off all those garbage "summary" dropdowns under YouTube videos on iOS? They're a waste of screen space.
#enshittification #ai #youtube

Norwegians react to the enshittification #enshittification

Er der et godt dansk udtryk for "Enshittification" ? #enshittification #danskerTrut

#enshittification
simply don‘t use Uber and similar schemes. https://gaysex.cloud/notes/ah0fzy5pnmk302qh

"We are watching one of the greatest wastes of money in history, all as people are told that there “just isn’t the money” to build things like housing, or provide Americans with universal healthcare, or better schools"
#Kleptocracy
#Enshittification

The Enshittifinancial Crisis
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Der nächste #Podcast von #dieZeit wird als solcher eingestellt und nur noch über geschlossene Plattformen/Apps von Konzernen verfügbar gemacht. 😞
Ich finde, das ist gerade jetzt in Zeiten von #enshittification

Kann es sein, dass das neu ist? Bei Amazon(.de) sieht man inzwischen gar nichts mehr, wenn man Amazon nicht die Berechtigung zur Code-Ausführung für JavaScript erteilt.
Ich denke, bis vor Kurzem war das nur für Bequemlichkeiten (Suche, ...) notwendig. 🤔
#enshittification

Imagine you're traveling back in time to the 1990s, and somebody asks you what the websites will be like in the future.
You: well, they will weigh hundreds of megabytes.
Them: oh, because of all the high resolution images?
You: …
Them: the images, right?!
#enshittification

#microslop #windows11 #microsoft #enshittification
What a surprise (iro…

"Meta’s business is both supporting and profiting from organized crime, and at 10% of its revenue, it’s also kind of dependent on it... I can find no analyst commentary on Meta making sixteen billion dollars on fraud, because it doesn’t matter to them"
#Kleptocracy
#Enshittification

The Enshittifinancial Crisis
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I had missed this video by #LouisRossman on #enshittification and his #ConsumerRightsWiki. Well worth a watch, also for the nice PSA by the Norwegian government that's included in the video.
#Fediverse, is he? 🤔
#video #ConsumerRights #website

Google Scholar "Labs": Scholar is now an LLM frontend. ☹️ #enshittification