In the book #Enshittification there are a lot of references to large companies naming nefarious and potentially illegal practices as “features” like that. Essentially: “it’s not theft, it’s training data.” I wish someone in authority would actually rule “No, it’s theft.” Surprised that the companies have gotten away with it seemingly universally so far. Has any country ruled it as theft yet?
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#AiSlop #Enshittification
#AiSlop #Enshittification
I see the Guardian now demands to be allowed to sell user info. So now I shall add the Guardian's Website to my filter list. I shall no longer be tempted to read any of it. 🤷♂️
IMHO ist das zuwenig und der #EuGH muss #Google dazu zwingen deren #Cyberfaschismus zu beenden!
- Und damit meine ich rückgängig machen unter Androhung von Knast, nicht einfach blechen und gut ist…
Cc: @keepandroidopen
Autos früher: Du kaufst ein Gerät, das dir gehört und wenn du es pflegst und Glück hast, hält es, bis es ein Oldtimer ist.
Autos und Autobauer heute: Ein Hacker aus China kann dich auf der Autobahn gegen einen Baum lenken, VW weiß, wie lange du wo in den Wald gepinkelt hast und Tesla kennt die Anzahl deiner Nasenhaare, während der BMW Fahrer seinen Kofferraum nicht mehr öffnen kann, weil sein Gepäck- Abo abgelaufen ist.
the problem is that this shit isn't merely contained to those USians that chose this Enshittification nor the USA, but that the US actively exports that shit!
- And I don't like that…
#USpol #USians #USA #US #Enshittification
TL;DR the people running Ford don’t know how cars are made
Ford rehires "greybeard" engineers after its push for AI automation backfires."Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product."
the-independent.com/tech/ford-…
Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly
‘We didn’t pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers,’ says automakerAnthony Cuthbertson (The Independent)
da hilft nur:
KONSEQUENT VERWEIGERN!
Und wenn dass bedeutet dass alle auf XMPP+OMEMO & PGP/MIME über @torproject gehen, dann ist das halt digitale Notwehr & Notwehr gegen Cyberfaschismus!
- Wir haben lang genug freundlich gefragt - jetzt nicht mehr!
- Diese Korrosionsstrategie muss aufhören! Ich will meine Menschenrechte zurück, und zwar alle die seit 1949 eingeschränkt wurden - MIT ZINSESZINSEN!
#Verweigerung #ChatControl #NonCompliance #XMPP #OMEMO #PGP #E2EE #Tor #DigitaleNotwehr #DigitaleNothilfe #Cyberfaschismus #Faschismus #Privatsphäre #Menschenrechte #Überwachung #Polizeistaat #Überwachungsstaat #EU #Massenüberwachung #FaschistischeKackshice #EUpol #DEpol #Enshittification #Notwehr #Nothilfe #DigitaleSelbstverteidigung #Neofeudalismus #Zensursula #Politik #Politricks #ITsec #InfoSec #OpSec #ComSec #Korrosionsstrategie #Menschenrechte #Bürgerrechte #FDGO #Freiheit #Rechtsstaatlichkeit
"I'll be nice once, then I won't" - Quaritch Scene (4K IMAX) | AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER
The Best Clips of the DISNEY Original Film AVATARTHEWAYOFWATER are available to watch on REGELE FILMELOR.Playlist : Avatar 2 : The Way of Water https://www.y...REGELE FILMELOR (YouTube)
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This is why @pluralistic is always preaching about #DRM-free digital media and software. Sony is deleting over 500 movies customers paid for through the PlayStation Store because they don’t want to renew their license with Studio Canal. #enshittification
Zu erst haben sie uns erzählt, dass #Kapitalismus den Wohlstand aller vergrößert, weil Firmen durch Konkurrenz angeregt werden, ihre Produkte besser und billiger zu machen. (Wofür man halt ein paar Sonderlichkeiten wie "unendliches Wachstum" und soziale Ungleichheit in kauf nehmen muss.)
Dann haben sie Tech-Kartelle aufgebaut, die uns mit allen Tricks an ihre Plattformen ketten, womit sie Konkurrenz faktisch abgeschafft haben.
Und jetzt wundern wir uns, dass da irgendwas nicht funktioniert.
Philipp Schild von Funk: "Uns ist es wichtig, in dieser Kultur eine Rolle zu spielen"
Zum zehnten Geburtstag schenkt das Jugendangebot von ARD und ZDF sich selbst eine Präsenz im Fediverse. Was dahintersteckt und wohin die Reise sonst noch gehen soll, verrät Funk-Programmgeschäftsführer Philipp Schild im Interview.Jana Ballweber (kna) (medium magazin)
#Enshittification is in full swing...
Die Mehrheit wird mit den Schulter zucken und sagen: Ist so, kann man nichts machen. --- Doch, ihr Vollpfosten! Könnte man, wenn der Scheiß einfach nicht genutzt werden kann weil keiner mitmacht!
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Ich wollte suchen und nicht prompten!
@danielmunoz
On a related issue, I have an installation team here who are cursing the office-based quote team who have never been on an installation. The wrong trunking ordered, complex site-related issues not recognised, etc. Exacerbated by the modern trend to do ‘site visits’ by video phone.
#enshittification
On a related issue, I have an installation team here who are cursing the office-based quote team who have never been on an installation. The wrong trunking ordered, complex site-related issues not recognised, etc. Exacerbated by the modern trend to do ‘site visits’ by video phone.
#enshittification
@MissGayle +9001%
It's why @tantacrul joined #MuseScore's development team:
- Because the #Enshittification of #Sibelius got on his nerves and instead he wants to #DoBetter himself.
Similarly, I started @OS1337 because I want a simple, reproduceable & auditable #Linux distro for my needs.
- OFC for the average "Tech-Illiterate" #Normie @bunsenlabs & @tails is gonna be a better choice, but even #UbuntuLTS is an Improvement compared to #WinShit11
mastodon.social/@kkarhan/11671…
kkarhan (@kkarhan@mastodon.social)
@nixCraft the only options I can see are these: Compliance: - One does as #TechIlliterate #managers demands, which will as a statistical inevitability get one scapegoated & fired for the #AIslop fucking up.kkarhan (Mastodon)
New leader takes the helm at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
Jenny Gray succeeds Julie Packard, the only CEO the famed ocean center has known since it opened in 1984Paul Rogers (The Mercury News)
and they should've never been involved in any of these to begin with, much less since they scrapped their Canary "Don't be evil!"…
#Enshittification leichtverständlich erklärt: "Mit einer gegen Aufpreis erhältlichen Premiumversion der Kopfhörer lässt sich zusätzlich das Klingeln und Klopfen genervter Nachbarn ausblenden, die sich beschweren wollen, weil das Kind die ganze Zeit schreit."
ich mach ganrkein Online-Banking, weil die Hafumtungsumkehr zu meinen Ungunsten schon inakzeptabel ist!
- Der Versuch meines Bankberaters, mir das aimufzuschwatzen wurde spätestens dann beendet als ich diesen bat sicherzustellen dass dies ohne SMS/App-Zwang und mit Lynx Browser unter OpenBSD funtioniert!
Microsoft revokes Office 2019 perpetual licenses, then edits their website to gaslight customers. - YouTube
youtube.com/watch?v=KRnno9VIZx…
Microsoft revokes Office 2019 perpetual licenses, then edits their website to gaslight customers.
wiki article: https://tinyurl.com/2n5n59a4wiki article with direct broken link due to parenthesis on youtube description: https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Micro...Louis Rossmann (YouTube)
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Lustig, wie wir jahrelang über „kostenlose" Dienste gelacht haben, bei denen wir das Produkt sind – und jetzt zahlen wir Abos UND sind immer noch das Produkt. Netflix mit Werbung, Prime mit Werbung, YouTube Premium teurer geworden, Twitter… ähm X… naja.
Vielleicht ist RSS doch nicht so retro, wie alle dachten. 📡
Firefox, the corrupted by money from google browser, is taking a page from google.
Google cripples their apps if you don't agree to turn your computer over to AI.
Firefox is disabling translate if your turn off AI. Enshittification.
Firefox is nor your friend.
I don't think the corporations, governments & billionaires are going to solve this for us. We have to get way, way pickier & willing to go without the products & services we *used* to love.
No matter how harmful & dull Facebook gets we don't want to lose access to that Friends' chat thread or the ability to sell our crap on Marketplace.
No matter now many ads or AI popups our SAAS provider shoves in our face we won't migrate our data to another option.
No matter how many breakdowns our car has, we buy the same make next time because "I've always been a Dodge driver ". Ditto for mobile phone, shoes, TVs, appliances, & more.
No matter how gross & malicious Twitter becomes, companies are still posting & advertising there. It's still many governments' main social media channel.
No matter how OBVIOUS it was that Threads & BlueSky would turn into the same manipulative algorithm, people just wanted an easy switch.
No matter how degraded mainstream media is, people won't go out of their comfort zone to go to independent media.
I think a lot about how we've arrived at this post capitalist, neoliberal hellscape & I think an uncomfortable truth is that WE users, consumers & customers of the world have blatantly failed to abandon products & services that suck now. There seems to be no degree to which things can be enshitified that will cause enough users to flee such that companies fail.
#enshittification #shopping #capitalism
Ed Zitron:AI is a perfect storm of failed concepts and organizations, and the apex of the Era of the Business Idiot.
LLMs Are Built To Coddle Losers
The AI Industry Is A Grifting Machine
The AI Industry Is Losing
Data Center Deals Are Catnip For Dullards, Taking Advantage of The World’s Dumb, Desperate Money
Stop Coming Up With Rationalizations For The AI Industry
We Are Going To Win
🤔
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1/nRevenge of The Business Idiot
If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5,000 to 18,000 words, including vast, detailed analyses of NVIDIA, Anthrop…Ed Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
problem is the lack of #Enforcement and subsequent #Enshittification which made #GDPR a #downgrade compared to #BDSG which mandated "only absolutely necessary" data collection as in "legally and/or technically necessary to fulfill essential functionaltiy"…
Wie dreist! Frage mich ob Sigma seinen Marktanteil da nicht glorios verkennt.. 🤷
#ROX #Rennrad #Fahrrad #Sigma #DefectiveByDesign #enshittification #NieWiederSigma
#enshittification #verscheissifizierung oder auch digitaler Feudalismus. Alle wollen ein Stück vom Abo-Kuchen ab haben.
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Dreiste Abzocke von Sigma:
Ein großer Teil der Features ihrer #ROX-Radcomputer sind jetzt "Premium": Entweder ich drücke ca. 40.- €/Jahr ab, oder ich kann "mein" Gerät ab sofort nur noch sehr eingeschränkt weiter nutzen 😠
Auf keinen Fall, dann fliegt das Teil halt in den Elektroschrott: NIE WIEDER SIGMA!
#Rennrad #Fahrrad #Sigma #DefectiveByDesign #enshittification #NieWiederSigma
He's not alone. @allaboutberlin
It happens to all websites, to podcasts, to books in online shops since years, because they become more and more invisible in search. And even before Google's new plans we have the AI-slop scam websites, copied websites, stolen identities, #AIslop fake books.
We urgently need regulations! I can't imagine that what Google plans would be legal in the EU. Our politicians sleep ...
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The author of @allaboutberlin on how Google AI Overviews are killing independent web publishing, citing a 70% drop in traffic after seven years of steady growth. His work trains the model. The model is replacing his site. There is no credit, clicks, or revenue. This is what the "enshittification" of the open web looks like in practice.
Hard to imagine moving to Berlin without stumbling upon his guides at some point.
linkedin.com/posts/nicolasboul…
#AI #OpenKnowledge #Berlin #Google #Enshittification #OpenWeb #IndieWeb
AI is killing All About Berlin. When you Googled something, you used to get a link to my website. Now you get an AI-generated answer trained on my work. This has a devastating impact on traffic… | Nicolas B. | 130 comments
AI is killing All About Berlin. When you Googled something, you used to get a link to my website. Now you get an AI-generated answer trained on my work. This has a devastating impact on traffic. It's hard to fund my work with 70% fewer visitors.Nicolas B. (LinkedIn)
Was zum everlasting Fuck! Warum haben die englischen Videos auf Youtube jetzt auf einmal eine automatisierte schlechte KI-Übersetzung der Tonspur und wie schalte ich das aus?
Argh!
@datarama
My recommendation is always "Follow the Money" .
Google is now an adjunct of the fossil fuel industry & its fossil fuel funded public corruption.
Go after the wealth of the billionaires & oil oligarchs funding Google's #Enshittification
#PrinceBonesaw
Alwaleed bin Talal
Chris Hohn
Elon Musk
Sergey Brin
Peter Thiel
Larry Ellison
Charles Koch
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Fossil fuel phase out.
Man worth $7.48B says Google should lay off 28,000 more people
Fortune Magazine said he paid himself $1.9 million a day in 2022.Joshua Bote (SFGATE)
So the #enshittification of #Bitwarden begins - private equity sucks!
What's next? Feels like #vaultWarden might be precarious being so heavily tied to Bitwarden. Keepass is great, but not exactly the most user friendly option.
What other self-hosted FOSS options exist?
I just think the only ethical monetization is by users paying a fair subscription for upkeep of said infrastructure…
Anything else would incentivize all the #AntisocialMedia #Enshittification we don't want on the #Fediverse...
All those you've mentioned!!!
Maybe I've missed some, but these here are very worrying to me as well:
* Kessler Syndrome, cascading damage once a threshold has been triggered, endangering *everyting* in the adjacent orbit(s).
* Impact on the atmosphere and global warming due to aluminium ablation of de-orbiting satellites.
For Big Tech and tech bros, this is all a land grab right now, driven by FOMO and perceived 'street creds' (redeemable in Silicon Valley and with the Tangerine Tyrant).
#satellites #SpaceInsanity #pollution #enshittification #BigTech
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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic with another brilliant article:
"Comrade Trump continues his unbroken streak of destroying the American empire's grip on the world, hastening the renewables transition, de-dollarizing global trade, and killing the world's suicidal habit of entrusting its digital life to America's defective, enshittified tech exports"
pluralistic.net/2026/05/02/den…
#Enshittification #US #Trump #Tech #News #Press #World #Green #energy
Pluralistic: The prehistory of the Democratic Nuremberg Caucus (02 May 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: The prehistory of the Democratic Nuremberg Caucus (02 May 2026)Cory Doctorow (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)