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More #enshittification .. . #youtube won't let you watch #videos at other playback speeds without paying for Youtube Premium.
Like, I don't know how you can speedrun the ruination of a platform any faster.<…

Wow, #youtube no longer allows me to change the playback speed of videos unless I pay up. Is that feature turned off for everybody now or just for those of us who use an ad blocker?
#enshittification

Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead
#AI #Enshittification
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#enshittification
simply don‘t use Uber and similar schemes. https://gaysex.cloud/notes/ah0fzy5pnmk302qh

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,

"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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"Qualcomm’s acquisition of Arduino and the company’s new Terms of Service sparks major concerns in the open source community over privacy and terms of service. What will happen to the Arduino open hardware and how does this effect Linux users?"
#Enshittification

Delightful 💩: dana boyd, Lee Vinsel & Cory Doctorow on #Enshittification
It feels odd that Cory assumes that platform things were good for a start. Still insightful.

"Our Future of Subtle Corporate Manipulation: AI Overviews of Independent Content"
#AI #enshittification #YouTube

"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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Despite being chronically online, I only learned recently that @… had published his latest book, #Enshittification. And because he is a great communicator, his 16-minute interview with

So yeah. I lost #whamageddon.
Thanks to a freaking internet ad, ffs.
Talk about #enshittification

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

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

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

RE: #enshittification is going:
> I was a Stocard user before Stocard became Klarna. Now…

otelo (prepaid) nervt auch;
593 von 600 GB Datenvolumen sind verbraucht
Aber 37€ Guthaben,
warum muß das ein Problem sein/machen!?
Nur in der kack APP wird keine Lösung angeboten,
und kannste wetten, auf Webseite gibt's auch keine Lösung zu finden, bzw nicht zu leicht zu finden.
Alles #enshittification 😖

Bluesky and Mastodon mentioned! He's right. Make those billionaires open their platforms and watch them run their websites as they should have in the first place.
Cory Doctorow - Rescuing the Internet From #Enshittification | The Daily Show

As I said a few weeks ago: #Apple doesn’t have a problems with #ads as long as they are in charge. For users it‘s just more #enshittification.

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

Thanks #Adobe.
I had 129.07 GB of CACHE for After Effects, an app I HAVE NOT OPENED since 2023 that I have had UNINSTALLED for months.
(This is on Mac).
Absurd.
#Mac #AfterEffects #enshittification

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

Maybe having "AI" doing any coding for you is a bad idea.
"Windows 11 25H2 is Breaking PCs Right Now (Here’s What’s Actually Broken) "
TBF, maybe it's just that M$ sucks at coding its own OS at this point.
#AI #enshittification

All I want for Christmas is ... being a #glasshole again!
#Meta #AI #enshittification