It's underlining more and more of what I write, in more and more colors, but suggestions for fixing sentences or words are now pretty much all under a paywall. WTF?
Feature suggestion for #DuckDuckGo or other #search engines: let me downvote results.
There is just so fucking much utter garbage, and the people pushing it have (apparently) effective SEO. Let me click a button saying "never allow this domain in my search results ever again."
The shitmongers running Google and Big Tech in general are the actors directly responsible for the decline of the internet in the name of growth and profit, as well as the side effects this has had on society in general, but the root cause is that these psychopaths are rewarded handsomely by investors for their toxic behaviour.
This is why I would never work for a publicly traded company again. I did once and realised that even if I wanted to that I would eventually be laid off in a round of job cuts (again) or fired due to being unmanageable or some such thing.
@msh i opened this link and was immediately greeted with a popup asking for my email. The page itself contains a bunch of banners with the same content. And that's with uBlock Origin enabled. Not to mention that the entire page was almost 1.5 megabytes compressed (almost 5Mb uncompressed), despite containing just a few kilobytes of text.
The irony here is that the same people complaining about #enshittification are the ones responsible for it.
P.S. it's hilarious how the page about the evils of Goolag also pulls fonts from Goolag. Jesus fucking Christ, man!
@Imperor That`s why I rarely even buy games from AAA companies anymore. They enshittified everything about gaming so much.
Always-on in singleplayer, annoying launchers, incredibly invasive anti cheat measures... that suck at catching cheaters, chat bots instead of support, ...
#Enshittification has reached new lows. I just called Spectrum because my bill shows two different numbers, and started with my regular routine: "Let me speak to a human." The robot said sure, but that they'd CHARGE FIVE DOLLARS to complete the call. I have no words.
If Windows 11 putting ads in the start menu wasn't bad enough. Microsoft is mulling adding watermarks to the OS if your computer doesn't meet the AI system requirements.
Adobe is so goddamn dumb. They want people to use their cloud collaboration platform so badly they put this stupid Share button in the tool bar, and left it floating over the top of actually useful buttons, like the one to OK a crop.
Everyone hates this, and used to disable it, so they took away the user's ability to turn the button off.
This is catastrophic. Touring and table sales were bread & butter. These are signed bands with radio play who can't make ends meet & lose money touring. It's unhinged. Art has been devalued beyond belief.
If corporations are a form of slow AI, then what @pluralistic calls #enshittification is indicative of an "alignment problem", when the objective function (paperclip maximization) is persued by destructive means. And like all alignment problems, it has to do with a lack of, or the wrong, constraints.
Further proof that "AI" is not really a thing (as if such proof is necessary)
Mystery Science Theater 3000 is streaming on YouTube, it's a legit stream from Shout! Factory.
YT drops ads into the stream, essentially at random, in the middle of scenes. Which is stupid and makes the stream fairly unwatchable.
MST3K was originally a cable TV show and has commercial breaks built into it -- the original bumpers are still in the show. The show also features a flashing light signal that the characters in the show recognize as "commercial sign." It literally signals some of the commercial breaks.
A twelve year old could identify the commercial break points in all 10 seasons of the show in an afternoon.
Instead, YT dropped three random commercial breaks in the middle of scenes in a half hour. As much as I love MST3K, I can't watch that. Total #enshittification. Doesn't help YT, the advertisers or Shout!
If Google had an actual AI that worked, you would think they would apply it here. Seems pretty simple, and surely other old TV shows are streaming on YT as well.
The last 6 times I've gone to order delivery, ordering on GrubHub was more expensive than ordering from the restaurant directly, even after the discounts from GrubHub+.
Why? Because the same item is priced higher on GH. A burger meal that's $14.99 from Red Robin is $17.99 on GH. They're doing this consistently with every restaurant, likely to offset the cut that GH takes.
The centralized delivery service model has completely failed. It used to be worth the subscription. Now it's just a waste of money
I had a corridor chat about with two designer friends about the enshittification of the internet yesterday, with me, 20+ years their senior, waxing lyrical about the good old days of the World Wide Web. One of them forwarded me the long form piece 'Are We Watching The Internet Die?' by Ed Zitron's. It confirms all of what worries me about generative AI. Here's hoping there's a way to step back from the edge.
Haha, remember that one time I was complaining about the enshittification of video games and saying how at least I'd always have tabletop games? 🙃
Like sure, Asmodee sucks ass and it couldn't happen to a nicer company, but I love being reminded that some rich assholes can completely fuck over the things I enjoy, and that I have absolutely 0 power to do anything about it.