I miss getting excited about new tech.
enshittification
Ok so to turn off the fucking wordpress "steal my stuff" option, go to admin page of your blog, click on settings, then scroll till you find "Prevent third-party sharing for (blog url)"
#wordpress #tumblr #plagiarism #theft #noAI #orphanCrushingMachine #enshittification
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More #enshittification, this time by #WordPress. After being able to view my stats for more than 20 years on my WordPress sites, I now need to pay $8.34/month for the privilege of contining to do so.
Pardon me, but FUCK THAT.
I guess it's time to completely uninstall #JetPack. Anyone have a suggestion for stats monitoring on a WordPress self-hosted blog?
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LOL, it just gets better and better with Adobe. This is late-stage enshittification.
They've apparently run out of "AI" training data and now want access to every user's personal data for their AI.
If you don't accept the new TOS, you can't even get support or uninstall the software.
https://9to5mac.com/2024/06/06/change-to-adobe-terms-amp-conditions/
Adobe can go f**k itself. There are alternatives. I've switched to Affinity + other software - yes, it can be tricky. But better than continuing to use Adobe.
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Great piece on BlueSky and enshittification by @pluralistic. “I will never again devote my energies to building up an audience on a platform whose management can sever my relationship to that audience at will.”
Read more: https://www.mollywhite.net/micro/entry/bluesky-enshittification
Cory’s piece: https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/
I had a basic insight I found useful. Tooted about it a couple of times.
https://social.coop/@smallcircles/113763233261892890
Both #Artificialisation and #Enshittification are Big Corp™ retracting further from 'people space' to conduct max-greed cutthroat hypercapitalist competition.
By doing so they leave empty wasteland. A huge niche for normal #people, the #commons, to reoccupy and serve with normal (sustainable) small business.
This allows positive outlook, and provide a rallying cry to occupy that new vacant space.
I've seen a lot of people talking about leaving #WhatsApp. Great!
Only, don't replace one WhatsApp with another.
#Signal and #Threema are centralized services, and just as vulnerable to #enshittification as Twitter or WA.
Instead, use a platform that's standardized and federated - #XMPP, a.k.a. #Jabber.
The easiest way to use it is to install #Quicksy from the Play Store, App Store, or F-Droid.
Or check out my XMPP guide for more options -
https://contrapunctus.codeberg.page/the-quick-and-easy-guide-to-xmpp.html
Edited 256d ago
Just noticed Microsoft Excel has trouble scrolling a 12kb file that I just made. It's 2025 and you are lagging on scrolling....Old software was faster, seriously! #Enshittification
Maybe there isn't A Tipping Point, but several. Like milestones on the long road to freedom. I've just reached one.
The security bugfix iOS release 18.3.1 "fixes" the very useful bug in Apple Intelligence that stops it working if the AI language is different from the system language—and re-enables Apple Intelligence.
This is #enshittification in action, at Apple. (I turned AI off because DO NOT WANT, EVER, PERIOD.)
🎶 Futures made of virtual insanity, now
Always seem to be governed by this love we have
For useless twisting of our new technology
Oh, now there is no sound for we all live underground 🎶 #NowPlaying #Enshittification
Edited 139d ago
TIL: Whatever #ebooks or documents you put on a #Kindle, they're being indexed & uploaded automatically to the #Amazon server if the device has an internet connection. Just found out with an unpublished #manuscript that someone wanted to read on their Kindle and it ended up on the Amazon server, although it was put onto the Kindle manually via cable. Whatever you do with Amazon devices, you're adding everything to Amazon's data collection. #Enshittification #AuthorRights #IntellectualProperty
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ORG turns 20 this year! 🎈 🎉 🎂
To celebrate two decades of fighting for digital rights, join us for a special event with Cory Doctorow @pluralistic in conversation Maria Farrell.
Register now to hear about Cory's writing, surveillance capitalism, the ‘enshittification’ of digital platforms and how to fight Big Tech ✊
It's not one to miss!
🗓️ Wed 16 July, 6pm BST
💻 Zoom
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/events/org-at-20-cory-doctorow-in-conversation-with-maria-farrell/
#ORG20 #digitalrights #bigtech #corydoctorow #enshittification #privacy #capitalism #surveillance
Edited 105d ago
DuckDuckGo is experiencing an “outage” and searches are not rendered; YET, somehow if i turned on "AI Features", it might.
more like FuckFuckNO, amirite?
By taking my photo in any context, at any time, you implicitly agree to the terms of this contract: You are disallowed, forever and without exception, from sharing anything containing my image or likeness with any product or service offered by Meta, or with any company that uses the image or likeness of me to train, model, or otherwise support any image capture, generation, facial recognition, AI, or yet to be invented technology. The terms of this agreement are irrevocable in the absence of explicit, written consent signed by my hand using ink and paper.
#enshittification #meta #facialrecognition #AI #generativeAI
Edited 94d ago
Ugh.
I get why two-factor authentication is important, but holy hell.
There are SO MANY services that I seldom use (mainly for work) that force me to re-authenticate EVERY TIME I USE THEM because it's passed some threshold of time since the last usage.
And why bother adding a "trust this browser" or "don't show this again" checkbox when you're obviously going to ignore it and ask again next time anyway?
Don't trust cloud services with your creative work.
#enshittification #privacy #infosec #security #cybersecurity #writing #art
"I believe GPT-5 is part of a larger process happening in generative AI — enshittification, Cory Doctorow’s term for when platforms start out burning money offering an unlimited, unguarded experience to attract their users, then degrade and move features to higher tiers as a means of draining the blood from users.
With the launch of GPT-5, OpenAI has fully committed to enshittifying its consumer and business subscription products, arbitrarily moving free users to a cheaper model and limiting their ability to generate images, and removing the ability to choose which model you use in its $20, $35 and “enterprise” subscriptions, moving any and all choice to its “team” and $200-a-month “pro” subscriptions.
OpenAI’s justification is an exercise in faux-altruism, framing “taking away all choice” as a “real-time router that quickly decides which [model] to use.” ChatGPT Plus and Team members now mostly have access to two models — GPT-5 and GPT-5-Thinking — down from the six they had before.
This distinction is quite significant. Where users once could get hundreds of messages a day on OpenAI’s o4-mini-high and o4-mini reasoning models, GPT-5 for ChatGPT Plus subscribers offers 200 reasoning (GPT-5-thinking) messages a week, with 80 GPT-5 messages every 3 hours which allow you to ask it to “think” about its answer, shoving you over to an undisclosed reasoning model. This may seem like a good deal, OpenAI is likely putting you on the cheapest model whenever it can in the name of “the best choice.”"
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshittification-of-generative-ai/