I clicked *once* on this message from WhatsApp to an Instagram link. (I have long deleted my FB / Insta account).
Remember when you could click on a link and see the information right away on a web page that didn’t load a Windows95 in code in code 3 times ?
In the end I can’t see it. Had to ask my wife to show me on her phone (with Instagram).
@gnoll110 @pluralistic @shawnhooper Amazon is like 200+ steps deep in the #enshittifcation steps now, it’s just beyond absurd.
@enigmatico @lispi314 @kimapr @bunnybeam case in point:
#Bloatedness was the original post topic and yes, due to #TechBros "#BuildFastBreakThings" mentality, #Bloatware is increasing given that a shitty bloated 50+MB "#WebApp" with like nw.js is easy to slap together (and yes I did so myself!) than to put in way more thought and effort (as you can see on the slow progression of OS/1337...
Yes, #Accessibility is something that needs to be taken more seriously and it's good to see that there's at least some attemots at making #accessibility mandatory (at least in #Germany, where I know from some insider that a big telco is investing a lot in that!) for a growng number of industries and websites...
And whilst one can slap an #RTX5090 on any laptop that has a fully-functional #ExpressCard slot (with #PCIe interface, using some janky adaptors!) that'll certainly not make sense beyond some #CUDA or other #GPGPU-style workloads as it's bottlenecked to a single PCIe lane of 2.0 (500MB/s) or just 1.0a(250MB/s) speeds.
Needless to say there is a need to THINN DOWN things cuz the current speed of #Enshittifcation and bloatedness combined with #AntiRepairDesign and overpriced yet worse #tech in general makes it unsustainable for an ever increasing population!
Not everyone wants (or even can!) indebt themselves just to have a phone or laptop!
Should we aim for more "#FrugslComputing"?
Is it realistic to expect things to be in a perfectly accessible TUI that ebery screenreader can handle?
That being said the apathy of consumers is real, and very frustrating:
People get nudged into accepting all the bs and it really pisses me off because they want me to look like ab outsider / asshole for not submitting to #consumerism and #unsustainable shite...
Lest das! So wahr ... (leider).
https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
Our goal should be to maximize interoperability between #ActivityPub and #ATproto. I have serious doubts about #bluesky but if it could feel seamless communicating between the two, we'd maximize our preparedness for any future #enshittifcation. And along the way, refusal to make this work will quickly expose any bad actors. #SocialWeb
To start, let's build #bridgyfed into both apps and add a notification on both when your account is connected. Crazy I know but maybe even connect by default...
Can I just take a moment to express my old man shouts at cloud rage at #Apple and #NYT for taking a big old #enshittifcation dookie on one of my favorite mediums? (#Podcasting).
I DO NOT WANT you putting #podcasts behind a paywall. Want to offer me extra goodies for paying? GREAT! But keep them free for all the folks who can't pay.
Its available!!!
#defcon32 - Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation - @pluralistic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EmstuO0Em8
or you can read Cory's notes here - https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/17/hack-the-planet/
#enshittifcation #TakeBacktheInternet
I open the article on my phone. An uncloseable banner pops up to cover the bottom 1/3rd of the screen, unmovable until I disable the ad blocker. But this is just the default browser on my Mastodon app – no extensions. Ads still frame each paragraph. As I struggle to read the article in this tiny gap, a video sweeps in to hide the text near the top and distract with its wee dancing humans. Then an ad sweeps over the middle.
As I click back to escape this horrible Terry Gilliam dystopian nightmare, the entire screen shifts, the ads blessedly vanishing behind one solid panel, which begs me to sign up for the newsletter.
If they could break the back button, they would. They're working on that now.
Is this new? Or was it always this way and I never noticed because I'm almost always logged in? #github #enshittifcation #loginwall #microsoft
Still amazes me that part of the reason we switched to our current vet is because, after our prior vet git acquired by VCA, their prices spiraled while their quality if care sank ...both on similar trajectories. Have I mentioned, before, how much I hate private equity and other sources of #enshittifcation?
The other part being that they REALLY pissed me off on two, prior occasions. One because the woman they had acting as an emergency vet had zero interest in anything but surgery and was awful with the pets' humans (por tone and maddeningly evasive). And another when a different emergency vet git all pissy about our feeding our dogs raw diets.
There is a #music #streaming #service called #Deezer. It seems to have lost its sense of #purpose & gone fully #VentureCapital: "Hello Daniel, Deezer is renewing itself: 'Helps you to be you and belong'. Our goal: music experiences that go beyond streaming. We offer an improved design for personal expression and connection."
What does that mean? Is that #newspeak for #enshittifcation?
How is helping me be me an ongoing business model? Do these people ever get #sober and #listen to themselves?
@ViciousBabushka @hauntedhideaway
And unlike today's search engines, not a victim of #enshittifcation.
Never own an HP printer.
You can find them everywhere. No one wants them anymore. They are #enshittifcation on steroids. Even flies will not go near them.
Well it looks like the #Roku #enshittification story is finally taking shape.
Last week Ars Technica reported that Roku, the streaming-service hardware company, started forcefully insisting that its users accept a terms-of-service change that disallows #lawsuits, giving users no choice but to accept the terms or not use their Roku boxes/TVs.
Now today, we learn that someone has been credential stuffing Roku accounts, then using them to make online purchases using the stored credit card details.
Of course, Roku is going to issue refunds for the charges, because they are entirely responsible for protecting their customer data, and failed to do so.
https://therecord.media/roku-unauthorized-subscriptions-account-refunds
But this #enshittifcation of legal terms of service continues. Is there any wonder anymore why Roku was playing hardball to force users to agree to #arbitration instead of suing the company for negligence? #TOS
I don't use Windows everyday. But... excuse me... Is that a bunch of EFFING ADS when I click on the search bar? Talk about the #enshittifcation of everything.
I cancelled my Amazon Prime last week. This had the consequence in that I lost my free DashPass on DoorDash.
Last night, MrsWeeGem and I were looking to get food in and were browsing DoorDash. The delivery fees she was seeing were way less than mine.
There could be a variety of reasons for this but clearly delivery fee is not a function solely of distance. Bastards.
Another thing - You can now pay extra for 'express' delivery, straight to you, no drop offs. Bastards
Nitter, the alternative Twitter frontend is officially dead. The enshittification continues.
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983#issuecomment-1913362376
#twitter #nitter #enshittifcation #privacy #x
This is now the second message like this in as many weeks that has shown up in my #LinkedIn inbox. When the notification showed up on my phone, it actually still had a name, which means between when I noticed the message coming into my phone, and the time that I opened the notice maybe 2 minutes later LinkedIn figured out that it was bollocks. What is unclear to me is which type of #scam this is. Or worse if it's some #AI experiment run amok.
Acceleration of #enshittifcation continues unabated.
Brandt 
