Original from xkcd

Made me angrier than it should have.

@CurlyWurlies4All Relevant essay from Ed Zitron. It's well-worth a read, for those who haven't already.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-The picture I am trying to paint is one of terror and abuse. The average person’s experience of using a computer starts with aggressive interference delivered in a shoddy, sludge-like frame, and as the wider internet opens up to said user, already battered by a horrible user experience, they’re immediately thrown into heavily-algorithmic feeds each built to con them, feeding whatever holds their attention and chucking ads in as best they can. As they browse the web, websites like NBCnews.com feature stories from companies like “WorldTrending.com” with advertisements for bizarre toys written in the style of a blog, so intentional in their deceit that the page in question has a huge disclaimer at the bottom saying it’s an ad.

I'm reading Cory Doctorow's latest book, Enshittification. As Ed Zitron said, never forgive them for what they did to the internet...

Normally i don't read a wall of text in post images, but damn. Every sentence is true.

I wonder how much more they need to do before more people start using tools like uBlock and such. The internet is practically unusable without it, and I'm not using hyperbole--most websites have so much garbage on them that you literally can't read them without an ad blocker and/or reading mode.

Since Google removed support for ad blockers, I convinced my wife to switch to Firefox. She noticed a huge improvement immediately, especially on mobile.

It's this extreme enshittification that made me sail the high seas again

It's not that I want to

It's not that I don't want to pay

It's not that the seas are cheap

It's not that the seas are easy

It's hard, it's expensive (storage is cheap until you need to store boat loads of 20-40GB files, it takes huge amounts of time and has become a hobby because that's what it takes.

I would gladly pay a single provider 100/month for all my series, movies, music, etc and always have access to everything everywhere without ads but the providers literally fucked us over on each and every one of those items so I'm done.

Aarrrr mateys, all aboard!

Reject consumerism, embrace FOSS.

Many of the reasons OSS and OSH are so critical to a post-information world.

Our governments' failure to protect our rights from corporations is monumental. And when politicians are captured by money and not the people, we have no choice but to do things ourselves.

Hence dbzer0's mission and vision! Come join!

It's the wild west all over again until they establish law and order in the tech world. No standards, just everyone trying to make their millions (billions nowadays?). I can' help but think the end result of all this is an empty husk of a planet, floating dead through space because people wanted to collect money tokens of various values and denominations.

What the fuck is with that write an email to cancel your account by the way? Seriously what the fuck is that? I ran into that a few months ago and I was so fucking furious.

The internet used to be anything we wanted it to be

I FUCKING HATE HAVING TO DELETE MY ACCOUNT BY SENDING EMAILS IN A LENGTHY AND UNNECESSARY SUPPORT TICKET EMAIL CHAIN

give me a button. give. me. a. delete. acount. button. I am asking this not of the corporations, but of the government. Right to be forgotten should mandate making it convenient. When I want to delete my account I click Delete Account and recieve a confirmation email. I click the link in the email. My account gets deleted right then and there.

Spot on summary

Embrace free software and piracy. No account needed. No ads. No spam.

Unlock Origin for browsers (mobile and desktop)

NextDNS or PiHole (for everything)

FOSS apps for ad free apps that do exactly what the ad-full and premium apps do but free

And minimize usage of software that sells your data wherever possible

Everyone needs to be doing these things. Corporations gaslight folks into thinking they need ads and your info to upkeep and improve their services, but it isn't true. They pocket the revenue while making their products shittier and shittier.

Don't support shitty buisinesses

We do not ask for this capitalist Internet. We were good at year 2.000 where most of the content were made by and for fans because they love what they were doing.

Youtube is not full of ads.

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This is why I'm angry and weirdly into Cybersecurity practices.

It's all so tiring, honestly...

Steal what you can, live without the rest. Its shockingly easy to unplug from the majority of platforms.

I'm sorry, but this is kinda epic.

I think I encounter at least one of these phrases daily. The internet is so fucking gross.

Yeah, it's not looking great right now. For spotify on pc I use blockify, which makes the ads silent and about one second long. It does just kind of break whenever this one ad tries to play, but you just have to reload the site. For the visual ads on pc, I use ublock origin, which works well. On mobile, I use this app called newpipe instead of youtube. Patreons and memberships are so that the creators get more money. Some of them need the money, some of them obviously don't. Ai features and dogshit updates are everywhere, and I hate it. I don't personally have any workarounds for them. Shows and movies can just be pirated using one of the sites on yarrlist and an adblocker. Only being able to play games with wifi, yeah, that's pretty annoying. The account stuff sucks ass. Things are in fact, shit.