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Ben Pate 🤘🏻7h ago

Sorry Google. It's not me, it's you.

Yeah, you've made the go-to web browser for years now, but I'll have to take my chances elsewhere.

When you tried to installing a 4GB AI model on my machine without asking me, I had to finally draw the line.

So tonight I'm 100% chrome free for the first time in years. Let's see what it does to my laptop battery life :)

#enshitification

Chuso Pérez 21h ago

Why Reddit blocked my daily visit to its mobile website
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/05/why-reddit-blocked-my-daily-visit-to-its-mobile-website/

#enshitification

Why Reddit blocked my daily visit to its mobile website

Reddit REALLY wants you to use its app.

Ars Technica

Emeritus Prof Christopher May 1d ago

More enshitification:

There' s growing use of Cloudfare's verification services (checking whether you are a human & not a bot);

and while i understand the desire to limit bot access to sites, it's just one more aspect of using the world wide web that has been corrupted by big tech & its 'innovations';

its another bit of friction that adds to the frustration of trying to get things done on a system that is slowly becoming slower & more annoying to use.

#enshitification #internet #technology

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erstwhile 1d ago

@atoponce erm.. fuck you Sundar Pichai.

#Google #Chrome #SundarPichai #Nano #AI #Enshitification #DataTheft #Privacy #EFF #EU

livligkinkajou 1d ago

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane.

https://slrpnk.net/post/37416201

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. - SLRPNK

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Larry Garfield 1d ago

Woah! Discord's Linux client is finally at 1.x, instead of the years at 0.x.

I wonder what pointless thing they changed and what workflow they broke...

#Discord #Enshitification

CurlyWurlies4All 1d ago

Why Reddit blocked my daily visit to its mobile website

https://slrpnk.net/post/37405971

Why Reddit blocked my daily visit to its mobile website - SLRPNK

The company confirmed to me that it is moving in a direction that other platforms have taken: converting users to the app. Reddit says that the test aims to find out if people like me—those who use the service but aren’t generally logged in—get a better experience with the app.