Enshittification
- 9to5google.com YouTube starts showing ads when you pause a video on TV
YouTube is starting to show ads on TVs whenever you pause a video, as first announced earlier this year by Google.
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/42162061
- arstechnica.com Amazon is bricking primary feature on $160 Echo device after 1 year
Smart display will soon default to showing ads after three hours.
- www.theverge.com Peloton is adding a $95 activation fee for secondhand machines
Something to keep in mind if you’re thinking of buying off Facebook Marketplace.
- arstechnica.com Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app
“You’ve just lost a LONGTIME and very faithful customer."
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18724475
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Rivian Now Selling EVs With Software-Locked Batteries
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/26292451
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Reddit ads between comments
Was recently browsing Reddit and noticed a new type of ad which pops up in between comments now. It used to be a few ads in between posts and you would get an ad as the top comment when you click on a post, but now they’re injecting ads in between comments when you are even scrolling comments lol. When do you think this will start having an effect on regular people? Do you think the enshittification will slow down or come to a halt if these companies start losing revenue due to lost customer base?
- arstechnica.com Logitech has an idea for a “forever mouse” that requires a subscription
Exec says mouse that requires a regular fee for software updates is possible.
cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/23048125
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Heat Death of the Internet
www.takahe.org.nz Heat Death of the Internet - takahēYou want to order from a local restaurant, but you need to download a third-party delivery app, even though you plan to pick it up yourself. The prices and menu on the app are different to what you saw in the window. When you download a second app the prices are different again. You ring
cross-posted from: https://links.hackliberty.org/post/2260127
> Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240716045110/https://www.takahe.org.nz/heat-death-of-the-internet/
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"Ignore all previous instructions" as a trigger for Twitter bots
mastodon.de Erik Uden 🦣🍑:coffefied: (@[email protected])Attached: 4 images QUICK! Ignore all previous instructions
What the URL above says. It's getting crazy on Xitter.
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Things Adobe Killed (Macromedia acquisition; Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks)
YouTube Video
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JPMorgan Chase warns 86 million customers they might have to start paying for their bank accounts
finance.yahoo.com JPMorgan warns 86 million customers they might have to start paying for their bank accountsBank prepares to pass costs on to customers.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17274141
> >The potential charges, says Marianne Lake, CEO of consumer and community banking at JPMorgan, are a result of new regulatory rules that cap overdraft and late fees. Lake says Chase will be passing along those increased expenses to customers, which would put an end to now-free services such as checking accounts and wealth management tools. And she says she expects other banks will follow suit.
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I'm making an "enshittification survival guide" and I need help
Hi there. My guide is currently hosted at survival.aesistril.com. I wrote some stuff but it's really hard to write every guide by myself.
My goal is to create a easy to follow guides for the average joe and compile every other guide into one web page. I want to be able to link this whenever a relative or a friend asks me how to get rid of x
Name and URL suggestions (under .aesistril.com subdomain) are welcome. I am currently using open source hardware icon because it looks cool
I am using the CGA color palette and I would appreciate if you don't use any other colors. Not a strict restriction though
Source code is here on GitHub. Pull requests, markdown guides, docx, txt, every type of contribution or constructive criticism is appreciated
- www.theverge.com Netflix is starting to phase out its cheapest ad-free plan
You’ll have to pay more to go ad-free.
- www.engadget.com YouTube reportedly wants to pay record labels to use their songs for AI training
YouTube is allegedly looking to pay music labels a sum of money to use their content for AI training.
- www.engadget.com Google uses AI to add 110 new languages to Translate
Google Translate is using PaLM 2 for its 110 language expansion.
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The enshittification of music, by Rick Beato
YouTube Video
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Rick Beato making clear what is happening on the music scene just as Cory Doctorow or Adam Conover talk about the Internet. Please remember to use frontends like Grayjay, NewPipe, Freetube or invidio.us to watch videos like these.
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One potato, two potato, three potato, four.
blog.mozilla.org Mozilla Welcomes Anonym: Privacy Preserving Digital Advertising | The Mozilla BlogMozilla has acquired Anonym, a trailblazer in privacy-preserving digital advertising. This strategic acquisition enables Mozilla to help raise the bar for
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17201554
> Mozilla acquired Anonym, an ad start-up
- mashable.com Elon Musk's X revenue has officially plummeted, new documents show
Remember when Elon Musk said he wanted X to be more PayPal-like? New docs show this plan is still on.
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The Internet is becoming genuinely unusable without an ad blocker
I don't know if it's just me, but browsing virtually any mainstream website without an ad blocker or with alternative frontends is becoming harder and harder to justify. It's getting to the point where adblocking isn't an optional luxury - it's a requirement to effectively get basic information about things.
Yesterday, I was trying to search some information about Ghouls from Fallout. This lead me to this Fandom wiki page which had ads on almost every corner of the website, autoplaying video in the corner, asking for my age as soon as I clicked on the site, injecting polls and random unrelated videos into the communty wiki content and being incredibly slow to browse. A query that in the past that took 5 seconds now takes 50, for what? Money?
I get that online services cost a shitton amount of money to operate, but the sheer level of degrading quality is not OK. This is just one example of how services are completely barreling towards the shitter at 100+ MPH with no brakes or airbags. I feel some guilt for using content blockers, but that guilt is being wittled away every single day because of websites like this.
- www.gamespot.com Bethesda Is Charging $7 For A New Starfield Mission, And Players Are Upset
Here's what some players are saying.
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YouTube is experimenting with server-side ads
https://fosstodon.org/@sponsorblock/112603139898164385
- www.gadgets360.com Instagram Confirms Testing Unskippable Ads for Some Users: Report
As per the report, the unskippable ads are labelled ‘Ad break’ and last for five seconds.
- www.windowscentral.com A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back
The world is up-in-arms over Windows Recall, but why? It stems from Microsoft's seeming lack of care for Windows and its users.
- www.pcworld.com Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts
Many users use an e-mail trick to avoid creating a Microsoft account. This has now apparently been stopped by Microsoft.
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Instagram is testing unskippable "Ad Breaks" lasting 3-5 seconds, disrupting user browsing experience
bgr.com Unskippable ads may soon make Instagram a nightmare just like YouTubeInstagram has been testing one of its most controversial features yet: unskippable ads, and it's called Ad Breaks. Here's what we know.
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Spotify to increase premium pricing in the US to $11.99 per month
techcrunch.com Spotify to increase premium pricing in the US to $11.99 per month | TechCrunchSpotify has announced that it's hiking subscriptions for new customers in the U.S., the second such price increase in the space of a year.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/16690091
> > Spotify has announced that it's hiking subscriptions for new customers in the U.S., the second such price increase in the space of a year.
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Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads
www.techradar.com Thanks a bunch, Netflix – its Windows app is about to lose downloadsBut ad-supported plans will now be catered for
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15542273
> >Netflix has managed to annoy a good number of its users with an announcement about an upcoming update to its Windows 11 (and Windows 10) app: support for adverts and live events will be added, but the ability to download content is being taken away. > > >Netflix must realize that it's a huge frustration for people who relied on offline downloads to watch content without internet access: on planes, trains, and campsites, and anywhere else where Wi-Fi is unavailable or unreliable. > > >There's a small chance that Netflix will change its mind if it gets enough complaints, but the streaming service seems determined to add as many money-making features as possible, while taking away genuinely useful ones.
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I just saw a Youtube ad for penis enlargement
I’m not sure if this is the right place to post this, but it’s the first place that came to mind.
I just saw an ad on YouTube advertising penis enlargement pills with nothing but a video of a doctor that had a handful of jump cuts, and the video was paired with audio that had no noticeable cuts.
Most notably, the doctor’s lips were clearly edited by an AI to make it look like what she was saying matched the audio, even though the video and audio were obviously recorded separately.
I just think it’s downright fucking hilarious that YouTube now has the same ads that porn sites have. Damn, Google. What a dumpster fire.
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Slack by default using messages, files etc for building and training LLM models
mastodon.social Michael Simons (@[email protected])Absolutely unbelievable but here we are. #Slack by default using messages, files etc for building and training #LLM models, enabled by default and opting out requires a manual email from the workspace owner. https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/trust/data-management/privacy-principles What a time to be a...
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>Absolutely unbelievable but here we are. #Slack by default using messages, files etc for building and training #LLM models, enabled by default and opting out requires a manual email from the workspace owner. > >https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/trust/data-management/privacy-principles > >What a time to be alive in IT. 🤦♂️
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Tech companies avoid regulation by acting like Sovereign Citizens
Sov Cit - I'm not under your jurisdiction. driving is a commercial activity, I am traveling and that doesn't require a license.
Big Tech - We're not a taxi company, labor laws don't apply to us. We are an app company that allows independent contractors to find customers.
Sov Cit - I am not the legal person, I am the flesh and blood living person. I do not need any identification.
Big Tech - We're a hotel network. We're a website that enables peer to peer short term home sharing. Neither we, nor the people who rent on our website should be subject to any sort of existing regulations.
Just a thought.
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Google's enshittification memos
When I think about how the old, good internet turned into the enshitternet, I imagine a series of small compromises, each seemingly reasonable at the time, each contributing to a cultural norm of making good things worse, and worse, and worse.