#enshittification

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Dear Google,

I'm a lazy consumer, but I can't stomach (dis) information from X in my Discover feed. You didn't give us a way to exclude them, so I turned it off altogether.

Waiting for you to remove the off button,

-Jack


Huh.

YouTube has introduced an algorithmic feed to the Subscriptions view.

The first section was "Relevant Videos", followed by a row of shorts, and only after scrolling past that did I get to see what I actually wanted, which was a chronological list of videos from the creators I chose to follow.

Fuck you, Google. 😠

A nice subtle there 1Password. Adding features no-one wants in a password manager to justify increasing the price. If these had any value you'd be able to sell the additional features as an upgrade, not an arbitrary price increase for all. cc @pluralistic

Screenshot of an email showing 1Password increasing their prices from $59 to $71 per year

Just finished listening to by @pluralistic. A clear and unambiguous diagnosis of where we are and how we got here. Alas, I feel that it’s mostly preaching to the choir at this point, at least from the naked capitalism perspective that is the US. Still, there is hope - even if it’s likely to be an uphill battle.

If you haven’t already read it, you should.

The Norwegian Consumer Council has released a report on today, which can be found at https://www.forbrukerradet.no/news-in-english/digital-products-and-services-are-getting-worse-but-the-trend-can-be-reversed/

They are also hosting a seminar starting at 11:30 - mostly in Norwegian, but @pluralistic is due to speak at noon: https://vimeo.com/event/5738008

The consumer council has done some great work previously regarding and . For instance led their report on to a record fine of 2.5 billion dollars to : https://www.forbrukerradet.no/news-in-english/record-fine-for-amazon-following-a-report-by-the-norwegian-consumer-council/

@finnmyrstad