I finally deleted my Xitter & Slopbook accounts.
This was waaaaay overdue.
Feeling much better already ...
RE: https://spore.social/@yoginho/115813620534985333
I just can't repeat often enough how much better my life is now that I'm no longer on those #enshittified platforms...
I finally deleted my Xitter & Slopbook accounts.
This was waaaaay overdue.
Feeling much better already ...
RE: https://spore.social/@yoginho/115813620534985333
I just can't repeat often enough how much better my life is now that I'm no longer on those #enshittified platforms...
OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions
Ads coming to free tier and new $8/month ChatGPT Go plan in US.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/01/openai-to-test-ads-in-chatgpt-as-it-burns-through-billions/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
@arstechnica #enshittification in your #enshittified AI? I love it.
today’s “tales from the #enshitocene”… 😩
we’re at a rental property for our honeymoon! 🎉🎉🎉 👰♀️👰♀️🐶 🚣♀️🐶🚣♀️ (that’s not the #enshittified part 🤪)
the house has a “smart” (🙄) TV – so far I’ve removed 3 previous still-logged-in Google account profiles, disabled analytics & “data sharing” in three different places, turned off all the Google / Alexa integration bullshit (especially the microphone wake word!), etc., etc. 😩
but at least one profile is still “remembered” somewhere in the settings, since if you open the “set up Google assistant” page (to make sure everything’s turned off), it “helpfully” pre-fills the account box with the email of one of the (obviously-not-really-)deleted accounts
(I’ll probably email that person & let them know that I’ve logged out of their account for them & suggest that maybe they should do that themselves next time they log in to their account on some rando’s TV… 🤪)
and of course, despite us def never logging in to any apps on some rando’s TV & only running stuff on our own laptops connected via HDMI, we still run the risk of the TV snitching on us via totally undisclosed & un-opt-outable #AutomatedContentRecognition ( #ACR) tech – this particular TV is a #TCL one, one of the brands named in a new #lawsuit in… ✷checks notes✷ … #Texas (😳 but also 🎉)
more of this #RegulatoryAction pls! 🤜💥🤛
Attorney General Paxton Sues Five Major TV Companies, Including Some with Ties to the CCP, for Spying on Texans
/ping @pluralistic 👋
today’s “tales from the #enshitocene”… 😩
we’re at a rental property for our honeymoon! 🎉🎉🎉 👰♀️👰♀️🐶 🚣♀️🐶🚣♀️ (that’s not the #enshittified part 🤪)
the house has a “smart” (🙄) TV – so far I’ve removed 3 previous still-logged-in Google account profiles, disabled analytics & “data sharing” in three different places, turned off all the Google / Alexa integration bullshit (especially the microphone wake word!), etc., etc. 😩
but at least one profile is still “remembered” somewhere in the settings, since if you open the “set up Google assistant” page (to make sure everything’s turned off), it “helpfully” pre-fills the account box with the email of one of the (obviously-not-really-)deleted accounts
(I’ll probably email that person & let them know that I’ve logged out of their account for them & suggest that maybe they should do that themselves next time they log in to their account on some rando’s TV… 🤪)
and of course, despite us def never logging in to any apps on some rando’s TV & only running stuff on our own laptops connected via HDMI, we still run the risk of the TV snitching on us via totally undisclosed & un-opt-outable #AutomatedContentRecognition ( #ACR) tech – this particular TV is a #TCL one, one of the brands named in a new #lawsuit in… ✷checks notes✷ … #Texas (😳 but also 🎉)
more of this #RegulatoryAction pls! 🤜💥🤛
Attorney General Paxton Sues Five Major TV Companies, Including Some with Ties to the CCP, for Spying on Texans
/ping @pluralistic 👋
@davidgerard
Or, you see, simply set up an echo network of focused parabolic repeater radios spaced at precise Schumann resonant intervals across your county to imprison your data in a geodesic reflection mesh, retrievable at any one of the convenient antinodes in the geometric median between repeaters by holding a vial of plasmodic aether draped in a fine copper foil to the heavens and allowing it to re-enter the spirit. Using google instead of a harmonic ether grid is just begging to be #enshittified
found on bsky found on tumblr
i checked mine and yep. check yours.
EDIT: hi FOSS evangelists, we're already on fucking Mastodon. This is like walking up to someone in church who's wearing a white collar and asking if they've heard of Jesus.
@davidgerard
Or, you see, simply set up an echo network of focused parabolic repeater radios spaced at precise Schumann resonant intervals across your county to imprison your data in a geodesic reflection mesh, retrievable at any one of the convenient antinodes in the geometric median between repeaters by holding a vial of plasmodic aether draped in a fine copper foil to the heavens and allowing it to re-enter the spirit. Using google instead of a harmonic ether grid is just begging to be #enshittified
Looks like #Amazon will be sunsetting #Aeternum #MMO at some point...
Anything you think is good will be #enshittified in the long run.
Be informed follow @pluralistic
Looks like #Amazon will be sunsetting #Aeternum #MMO at some point...
Anything you think is good will be #enshittified in the long run.
Be informed follow @pluralistic
With #DuckDuckGo being #enshittified, I just randomly decided to see if some ancient search engines are still alive. Sure enough, there are a few throwback engines still going strong.
#Lycos: Alive and well! I don't see much enshittification, it's clean.
#Dogpile: Also seems clean and functional
#Excite: Clean, but has ads in the results.
#enshittification #aislop
