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#enshittification

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matt wilkie

The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against Me
codetiger.github.io/blog/the-d
"Someone—or something—had remotely issued a kill command...The device came with rtty software installed by default. This small piece of software allows remote root access to the device, enabling the manufacturer to run any command or install any script remotely without the customer’s knowledge...The manufacturer had the power to remotely disable devices and used it against me for blocking their data collection."
#enshittification

Small World · The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against MeWould you allow a stranger to drive a camera-equipped computer around your living room? You might have already done so without even realizing it. The Beginning: A Curious Experiment It all started innocently enough. I had recently bought an iLife A11 smart vacuum—a sleek, affordable, and technologically advanced robot
matt wilkie

By far most of the apps on my android devices are from the Google Play store. Being able to install anything I want from an apk is an essential feature, even if I only do it once every long while. If I wanted to be locked in a walled garden I'd have an Apple and be on the same team as most of family and friends.
howtogeek.com/f-droid-says-goo
#google #enshittification

How-To Geek · F-Droid Says Google Is Lying About the Future of Sideloading on AndroidBy Joe Fedewa
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Nicole Parsons

@wendysiegelman

Republican voters now seem unperturbed by massive public corruption

As long as it's conducted by "their side", they appear indifferent to the collateral damage of unfettered corporate criminality

Contaminated medication. The spyware embedded in every IoT device. The invasion of privacy. The civil rights erosion. . Food recalls. The healthcare ripoffs. The sabotage of tort law. Product tampering. Declining quality. Poor customer service. Financial fraud.

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NikuNashi

The $3000 Ad tech Samsung fridge is a cold reminder that @pluralistic 's warning that paying for the product still makes you the product is much worse than that.

On top of marking yourself as a target, the higher the price you pay, the more surveillance is included.

Each feature, sensor, doohickey or whatever is you paying for extra surveillance, more data processing, more detail, etc.

Free, old, or really $/%@ cheap are the only remaining *consumer* options to avoid this.

#Enshittification
Pia Herself :verifiedlesbian:

I have an issue with an app I use, it has an obvious bug that prevents me from using it. I try to contact the company about it, but there's no e-mail, phone numbers or anything listed related to the app. They have a 'guest support center', which is just one big FAQ. They have an option to 'chat with us', but it's just a chat bot with no escalation. I guess I'll just write a 1 star review for the app and move on.

#frustration#enshittification
Tommaso Gagliardoni

Great article by F-Droid on "What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading".

f-droid.org/2025/10/28/sideloa

A few excerpts:

It bears reminding that “sideload” is a made-up term. Putting software on your computer is simply called “installing” [...] the term “sideload” was coined to insinuate that there is something dark and sinister about the proces

You, the consumer, purchased your Android device believing in Google’s promise that it was an open computing platform and that you could run whatever software you choose on it. Instead, starting next year, they will be non-consensually pushing an update to your operating system that irrevocably blocks this right and leaves you at the mercy of their judgement over what software you are permitted to trust.

You, the state, are ceding the rights of your citizens and your own digital sovereignty to a company with a track record of complying with the extrajudicial demands of authoritarian regimes

f-droid.orgWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App RepositoryWe recently published a blog post with our reaction to the new Google Developer Program and how it impacts your freedom to use the devices that you own in th...
#google#android#aosp
jsae

When public services and community enrichment are considered luxury, contemporary society chooses to make libraries beg from the public. I guess this is the only way we get good things together.

Your Library Needs You - VPL Foundation

vplf.ca/donate-digital/

VPL Foundation · Your Library Needs YouWith your support, VPL can deliver the e-books and audiobooks your community needs. Digital use has skyrocketed from 1 million to 5.7 million downloads each year over the past decade.Buying digital publications costs the library
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@fdroidorg >The promise of Android — and a marketing advantage it has used to distinguish itself against the iPhone — has always been that it is “open”. But Google clearly feels that they have enough of a lock on the Android ecosystem, along with sufficient regulatory capture, that they can now jettison this principle with prejudice and impunity.

This is what Cory Doctorow calls enshittification.

#cory_doctorow#enshittification
Ezra Freelove

Work's endpoint management system made me restart my computer. Now, autocorrect is showing up everywhere. Browser textboxes, emails. Not my shell client, so I guess I need to just get lost in code. #enshittification

Sterling Hammer :verified_paw:

The mindless #AI push means that as engineers, instead of solving problems that need to be solved we're being repurposed to create #AI solutions to problems that don't actully exist. What's even worse, is these things will likely create more problems and technical debt we'll have to come back and fix after we mindlessly install #AI into everything because executives are convinced it's somehow the future. #Tech #BigTech #enshittification

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🐧DaveNull🐧 ☣️pResident Evil☣

@pictor

Youtube uses automated robotic voice-over, actually replacing the original audio.

And NO you can't turn it of as viewer. You can turn off only subtitles NOT the voice-over. which can be turn off only by channel owner.

If it was just about optional subtitles, I and most of us, couldn't care less whether those auto-translations are accurate or not. We would just disable them.

We are complaining about #enshittification because it's about forced, always-on, auto-translated audio…

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PersonalCompute.net

💡Tip: If you post #CreativeCommons content on #youtube and want to encourage the redistribution of the content, please provide an alternate download address. The current process of downloading media from youtube involves either A) paying for youtube premium, in order to enable the "Download" button or B) using "yt_dlp" or similar tools, which some argue involves breaking the Section 1201 of the DMCA (*). Youtube adds new barriers for users to access its content (such as ID checks or Adblocker-blockers) and will keep adding them as long as users have no viable alternatives.

*: it already happened before, in 2020, when the tool was attacked with a takedown request ( https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/github-reinstates-youtube-dl-after-riaas-abuse-dmca , https://github.blog/news-insights/policy-news-and-insights/standing-up-for-developers-youtube-dl-is-back/ ). At the time, the claim that reverted the takedown was that Youtube didn't implement an effective "technical protection measure", so youtube-dl couldn't be accused of "circumventing a technical protection measure" in the sense indicated by the Section 1201, but the technical details are not guaranteed to remain the same in the future.

#dmca1201 #dmca #enshittification

Electronic Frontier Foundation · GitHub Reinstates youtube-dl After RIAA’s Abuse of the DMCAGitHub recently reinstated the repository for youtube-dl, a popular free software tool for downloading videos from YouTube and other user-uploaded video platforms. GitHub had taken down the repository last month after the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) abused the Digital...
No_Kings

RE: infosec.exchange/@masek/115452

More of this, please. Fight #enshittification

Infosec ExchangeMartin Seeger (@masek@infosec.exchange)**This is a valuable lesson for any manufacturer:** never awaken the nerd sleeping inside your customer, because his wrath shall be terrible. In this case the warning was quite literal. The company annoyed a buyer enough to push him into full blown nerd mode. He tore the product apart, reverse engineered every part, and then published a step by step guide showing exactly how to disable "kill switch" that prevented the use of the product without the vendor spying on the user. What started as a minor grievance became a public, technical exposé that left the maker exposed and embarrassed. **Moral of the story: underestimate your users at your own peril.** [The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against Me](https://codetiger.github.io/blog/the-day-my-smart-vacuum-turned-against-me/)
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