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"[Krause] is a master enshittifier, an enshittification ninja."

I feel like ninja might be giving them too much credit. These folks ain't subtle or stealthy. They don't strike me as a paper bag by the door crowd.

I picture the type of people who would hijack a port-a-potty truck on it's way back from a festival, quickly and badly spray paint the whole thing in (mate) black, and then proceed to crash it through the lobby.

#TomKrause #Enshittification


Makes you wonder about the utility of IP a little... if corporations disregard others' IP (ie. Everything on the Internet) then perhaps we do away with IP altogether. Or greatly reduce copyright protections in favor of copyleft perhaps.

#NoTechBros #enshittification


Enshittification! The internet was supposed to set us free, but as Cory Doctorow reveals, it’s been hijacked by monopolies that lock us in, strip us down, and sell us back to ourselves… though the fight isn’t over yet.
@pluralistic #Enshittification #bigtech #podcast #theinternetiscrack #tech #profit


Canadian writer, activist, and tech critic to log in as System Crash's first-ever guest host: Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic). Brian Merchant and Cory examine Elon Musk’s campaign of governmental destruction in Washington DC, how #enshittification will continue to unfold in 2025, and what, if any, hope there is for us, the humans and the users.
#bigtech #corydoctorow #democracy #internet #future #fediverse #socialweb #indieweb
youtu.be/zEZPa-YzaUs


As online enshittification continues, here are some big offenders:
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0… v @arstechnica

My (least) favorite: Getting stuck with AI when you don't want it — ever. Looking at you, Google Gemini (among others). At least there's a cure — for time being, anyway: curse in the search prompt. It's so cathartic, too.* arstechnica.com/google/2025/01…

*Don't want to curse, for whatever reason? Tone it down. I have found that "scumsucking" also works.

Lovely.
#enshittification #AI
@pluralistic


a real #mustwatch for everyone. thank you @martinandree

tilvids.com/w/g5rwMjNhZo8bzu8v…

cc @_elena

@pluralistic #enshittification


@pluralistic offers the most cohesive, timely, and listenable survey of the current state of tech, its historic context, and the most proximate opportunities for resolution.

youtube.com/watch?v=4EmstuO0Em…

#Enshittification #SocialMedia #BigTech #Technology


For anyone interested, @pluralistic will be doing a talk at the Media School at Indiana University on March 7th 4pm EST! It's free and you can register for the talk here! #corydoctorow #enshittification
events.iu.edu/mediaiub/event/1…


I encourage everyone to read or listen to @pluralistic post: pluralistic.net/2025/01/20/cap…

Then go install the News Feed Eradicator plugin for your browser (I'm going to stop using my phone). This is for keeping the Nazi noise and ads away.

(virtue signal-flex) I bought News Feed Eradicator creator, Jordan, a coffee.

#socialmedia #Enshittification


While Bluesky is nice for now, I want to encourage people to try out the Fediverse. It's much cheaper and easier to run a Fediverse server, which means it's much more distributed/harder to enshittify. If you can't pick a server, mstdn.social/about is a well-moderated general one! #Enshittification

Mastodon 🐘


The relay (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT_Prot...) on Bluesky makes it *extremely* difficult to run an independent copy of the network. In contrast, someone ran a Fediverse server on a car's headunit the other day! (masto.doskel.net/@doskel/1138...) #Fediverse #Bluesky #Ads #Enshittification

AT Protocol - Wikipedia


"While Graber has committed not to 'enshittify' the platform with ads, she’s not ruling out ads altogether. When asked if Bluesky would always be free of advertisers like it is today, Graber said: "I don’t think that’s necessarily true.'" techcrunch.com/2024/12/05/b...#Bluesky #Enshittification

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber isn't r...


The enshittification of Spotify continues.

You signed up to pay $10 a month to hear your favourite artists.

After taking your money, they began slowly substituting real artists with muzak.

honest-broker.com/p/the-ugly-t…

#music #Spotify #enshittification


Oh FUCK YOU, Microsoft, what fresh hell is this? This just started turning up today. Whenever I start or click into a different paragraph. And there's apparently no way to turn off the "alert" bug in 365 for MacOS.

Welp. Unless I can learn to ignore it, this may be the thing that pushes me over the edge into using Open Office. (Is that the current best open replacement for Word?)

#Microsoft #Word #365 #Copilot #Enshittification


I'm glad I'm in the Sony camp…though, I hope Sony doesn't get any funny ideas…

#sony #canon #cameras #enshittification oldfriends.live/@paul/11384475…


Canon Draws Fire for Charging Subscription Fee To Use Cameras as Webcams

Canon is requiring users to pay a monthly subscription fee to fully use their cameras as webcams on computers. The company's new EOS Webcam Utility software restricts features like HD resolution, brightness adjustments and color correction unless users pay $4.99 monthly or $49.99 annually. #enshittification

it.slashdot.org/story/25/01/17…



Canon Draws Fire for Charging Subscription Fee To Use Cameras as Webcams

Canon is requiring users to pay a monthly subscription fee to fully use their cameras as webcams on computers. The company's new EOS Webcam Utility software restricts features like HD resolution, brightness adjustments and color correction unless users pay $4.99 monthly or $49.99 annually. #enshittification

it.slashdot.org/story/25/01/17…


well this explains why my work gmail account suddenly had gemini enabled with no way to disable it. I asked Gemini to help. It of course did not.

#Gemini #Google #enshittification