New #enshittification levels at #youtube Interstitial telling me that using adblockers is verboten in a browser session where no adblocking is happening.

Okay then. Sounds like I will reduce YouTube consumption to a nil then.

One of the ways I judge the #credibility of a #tech #professional is whether or not they use a #gmail account as their primary #email address. Using #GoogleMail, especially in #Europe, is clear sign that the person does not pay attention to #privacy (or to the #enshittification of the Internet for that matter). Tech privacy is #TechPolicy.

Früher hatte Google mal ganz gute Produkte, heute fährt man zuverlässig in einen Stau rein wenn man mit Google Maps navigiert

#BigTech
#enshittification

Gee. I wonder if Amazon dropping the ability to download Kindle books back in February drew any more readers to this relevant blog post of mine... https://damonwakes.wordpress.com/2018/11/21/use-your-kindle-without-amazon-its-easier-than-youd-think/ #Amazon #Kindle #enshittification

Voeee loiri... Garmin on lisännyt Connect-palveluunsa subscription-ominaisuuksia ja luonnollisesti takana on AI-roskaa.

Palvelun käyttäminen ilman tilauksia on ollut yksi isoista syistä, miksi olen pysynyt niin pitkään Garminin käyttäjänä. Toistaiseksi kaikki tarvitsemani ominaisuudet toimivat kuten ennenkin.

Tämä herättää kuitenkin huolen siitä, että alkaako tästä Garminin paskeentuminen. Ominaisuuksia siirretään hiljalleen kuukausimaksun taakse niin, että kalliilla urheilukellolla ei tee kohta yhtään mitään, ellet sen päälle maksa palvelusta.

Pilatkaa vaan tämäkin palvelu, kuten nykyaikaan kuuluu

https://www.theverge.com/news/636211/garmin-connect-plus-subscription-wearables

Remember when #Etsy sold handmade stuff, yeah, that.

@pluralistic

#TeslaTakedown is proof that a population pissed off enough overcomes the collective action problem.

Tesla take down is the best antidote to #enshittification

So spread that woke mind virus, that any company that gloats about its profits has just established it’s too big for its britches and needs to suffer a bit of popular taxation in the form of losing customers.

Nothing like 100% tax rate of total revenue loss.

Permanently.

I can’t stop laughing at these jackasses.
A couple weeks ago I wanted to look at the flavors, but Safari wouldn’t let me do anything. It would just automatically try to get me to download the crumble app. But I could “order” in firefox on my phone.

Now not at all. Firefox will show me the order screen but I can’t choose pick up or delivery. It wants me to use the app. I will not.

I can see the cookies they were selling until yesterday on the homepage, and I suppose tomorrow I will be able to see this week’s cookies, but now I’m mad at them and I will never buy them again. This is Trash behavior.

Desserts in Concord | Crumbl https://crumblcookies.com/nhconcord

#enshittification #MormonCookiesSpyOnYou
#crumbl

I disabled #AI assist on #DuckDuckGo, but even when I do, I still get a bunch of search results that point me to 100% AI-generated web pages. Nowadays anyone can just fuzz search engines like #Google for lists of commonly searched queries, then generate slop responses to these queries, then cache the slop, and then use shady SEO techniques to get these slop pages to show up at the top of search results. And this is what I have been getting from a lot of my web searches lately, content from slop shops.

A part of me thinks companies like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon may themselves be investing in these shady slop shops to deliberately make traditional search engines useless, which would “incentivize” people to use #LLM -based AI like Gemini or #ChatGPT more often, though that is purely speculation on my part.

If you had asked my 20 years ago that the #Internet of the future would rapidly devolve and become increasingly useless as time went on, I would have dismissed you as a paranoid crackpot. Here we are in the future and I still can hardly believe how shitty technology is becoming.

Dieses ungefragte #Allergie-"Upgrade" ohne Uninstall-Option ist doch einfach nur real life #enshittification.

Idle #enshittification thoughts: Pyramids of #ai

It's already happening with the ongoing data theft, but it's not happening formally yet, for paid-for agents masquerading as services.

Their purpose would be a service layer that uses several other AI services, adding a layer of exploitable data that's closer to the users, and can piece together their objectives.

And be a gateway that other AI servies bid for.

Note to self: Don't think out loud, or someone will make billions from the idea.

The #CoSocialist Future
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/04/05/The-CoSocialist-Future

An interesting article about https://cosocial.ca/ by @timbray - If you're interested in running community services, you should read it.

They take Canadian paying customers only (50 Can$), got 200 ppl after 2y and will hire their first paid employee soon.

Shameless plug:
https://info.graz.social is also providing paid memberships which supports efforts to educate the masses about #Fediverse and #decentralization for people in and around #Graz (and I'm part of @wir). Meet us at #GLT25 on April 26: https://www.linuxtage.at/en/

Consider a membership or a donation to your team of choice that runs a #communityservice!

“OpenAI said experience from other jurisdictions including the EU shows that opt-out models face “significant implementation challenges,” while transparency obligations could see developers “deprioritize the market.”

They don’t want a challenge, just subservience and freedom to loot.

Starmer’s going to give them what they want. Watch.

https://www.politico.eu/article/openai-google-reject-uks-ai-copyright-plan/

#enshittification
#aisucks
#ukpolitics

I'm old enough to remember when a web browser was for browsing the internet and not being a feck'n RAM and storage hungry pseudo–operating system everything app. #Enshittification

Just give me a feck'n internet website browsing application.