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#Fdroid's statement re. #Google's attack on your freedom to install the apps you want on #Android devices.
#enshittification #bigtech #monopolies #oligopolies #freesoftware
Affinity est gratuit (mais pas #OpenSource) après rachat par Canva.
Si c'est gratuit, c'est vous le produit...
Ça sent l' #enshittification à plein nez. Wait and see.
@math #Enshittification dans 3, 2, 1...
#Fdroid's statement re. #Google's attack on your freedom to install the apps you want on #Android devices.
#enshittification #bigtech #monopolies #oligopolies #freesoftware
there is only one business model today:
Enshittification as a Service (EaaS).
Maximum Margins, Minimal Expenses. Global Maxima NPV.
Don't even bother pitching VC / PE if you can't show progress and acceleration enshittifying the market you are in.
If you get to the point where they ask what you need the money for, you tell them straight up: "I'm going to raise prices, make the product crappier, and convince people they love it even more."
I got a new phone and I clearly need to disable the Google AI "helper" that is tied to search. @pluralistic has written about #enshittification, and #AI is going to enshittify things faster than ever.
I asked Google to give me the time around the nurburgring for an Audi S6 e-tron. And I got the following response, which is mind-blowing since I drive the damn car.
there is only one business model today:
Enshittification as a Service (EaaS).
Maximum Margins, Minimal Expenses. Global Maxima NPV.
Don't even bother pitching VC / PE if you can't show progress and acceleration enshittifying the market you are in.
If you get to the point where they ask what you need the money for, you tell them straight up: "I'm going to raise prices, make the product crappier, and convince people they love it even more."
I got a new phone and I clearly need to disable the Google AI "helper" that is tied to search. @pluralistic has written about #enshittification, and #AI is going to enshittify things faster than ever.
I asked Google to give me the time around the nurburgring for an Audi S6 e-tron. And I got the following response, which is mind-blowing since I drive the damn car.
The never-ending "We changed our Terms of Service" emails are so tiring.
Imagine those corporations being honest…
"We've changed our Terms of Service once again, and added more conditions that are beneficial to us and unfavorable to you, but as usual they're carefully hidden in the 500 pages of lawyer language."
#tech #technology #business #corporations #BigTech #TOS #enshittification
It sounded good... NCIS: Origins and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds both on terrestrial TV (UK) in the same few weeks. Recording on PVR duly set.
First two episodes double bill (on the respective channels) of each.
And then... nothing. No sign in the EPG.
But available on those channels streaming. Is this an example of #enshittification for TV? Get you hooked, then streaming only where they control the unskippable adverts?
Listen to Cory Doctorow talk about finding a better search experience with Kagi on the New Yorker Radio Hour (min 5) -
"I was just amazed by how good they were the first time I used them"
Tucking into this one because @pluralistic@mamot.fr told me I had to. I don't know how nuts it's going to be, but the first couple chapters start out with some truly wild stories.
Promoting because the author is not allowed to.
#bookstodon #greed #facebook #enshittification
(comment on Careless People)
Tucking into this one because @pluralistic@mamot.fr told me I had to. I don't know how nuts it's going to be, but the first couple chapters start out with some truly wild stories.
Promoting because the author is not allowed to.
#bookstodon #greed #facebook #enshittification
(comment on Careless People)
The never-ending "We changed our Terms of Service" emails are so tiring.
Imagine those corporations being honest…
"We've changed our Terms of Service once again, and added more conditions that are beneficial to us and unfavorable to you, but as usual they're carefully hidden in the 500 pages of lawyer language."
#tech #technology #business #corporations #BigTech #TOS #enshittification
This Detroiter feels personally attacked - quoting @pluralistic on the systemic causes of #enshittification :
"(They) want to brainwash you with Margaret Thatcher's mantra, "There is no such thing as society." They want you to think that you are a pathetic, atomized individual... They want you to curse yourself for failing to cycle and take the bus in your city where there are no bike lanes and the buses run every 45 minutes and stop at 8PM."
People are slowly realizing that Android only weaponized open source licenses but was always meant to be a captive platform, like people are slowly realizing that VS Code has open source code but is a captive platform.
Open source licences are not enough. They’re regularly weaponized as a tech enthusiast trap.
@thibaultamartin licenses might not be enough, but at least one could use a stronger copyleft license like #GPL, which protects against more types of #enshittification than weaker permissive licenses. Which is why those #bigtech companies are scared to use them.
This Detroiter feels personally attacked - quoting @pluralistic on the systemic causes of #enshittification :
"(They) want to brainwash you with Margaret Thatcher's mantra, "There is no such thing as society." They want you to think that you are a pathetic, atomized individual... They want you to curse yourself for failing to cycle and take the bus in your city where there are no bike lanes and the buses run every 45 minutes and stop at 8PM."
@thoughtworks like when profits get more priority than functional correctness? #enshittification
The $3000 Ad tech Samsung fridge is a cold reminder that @pluralistic 's warning that paying for the product still makes you the product is much worse than that.
On top of marking yourself as a target, the higher the price you pay, the more surveillance is included.
Each feature, sensor, doohickey or whatever is you paying for extra surveillance, more data processing, more detail, etc.
Free, old, or really $/%@ cheap are the only remaining *consumer* options to avoid this.
The $3000 Ad tech Samsung fridge is a cold reminder that @pluralistic 's warning that paying for the product still makes you the product is much worse than that.
On top of marking yourself as a target, the higher the price you pay, the more surveillance is included.
Each feature, sensor, doohickey or whatever is you paying for extra surveillance, more data processing, more detail, etc.
Free, old, or really $/%@ cheap are the only remaining *consumer* options to avoid this.
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