Mastodawn

I generated a long-form essay on The Age of #Enshittification🚽 - How Predatory Corporations Weaponize Science to Deceive, Downsize, and Dominate the Modern Consumer - Nothing new…just a deep dive. I did the research and just pulled the whole story together in one long essay thinking it would be a useful reference. Once the dots are connected in this way, the story becomes even more insidious and ominous. Y’all know we’re being manipulated and controlled, but did you know how and how much? If you get through this tome, I hope you’ll have the WHOLE picture of how #SurveillanceCapitalism combined with science like #BehavioralEconomics are screwing us all.

https://popimpulse.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-age-of-enshittification.html #Capitalism #internetOfShit #internet #DarkPatterns #manipulation #StrategicManipulation

The Age Of Enshittification

How Predatory Corporations Weaponize Science to Deceive, Downsize, and Dominate the Modern Consumer Charles McHenry, 06/01/26 I. Intro...

superlemon 7h ago

One thing I've read a couple of times on here is that AI is expensive, but that doesn't seem to match what I see at work. Building a chatbot using genAI is apparently so cheap a hobbyist could make money on it? Or am I missing some info here?

#microslop #enshittification

Jon Snow 8h ago

Microslop is killing Office 2021 in October to push you onto Microsoft 365, how to fight back

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/06/20/microsoft-is-killing-office-2021-in-october-to-push-you-onto-microsoft-365-how-to-fight-back/

#Microslop #Microsoft #Office #Office365 #enshittification #software #technology

Microsoft is killing Office 2021 in October to push you onto Microsoft 365, how to fight back

Microsoft is once again ringing the death knell of Office 2021, this time with an End of Support for Office 2021 reminder.

Windows Latest

C.8h ago

Nope nope nope nopity nope

#enshittification #IMDB #reviews #RegistrationWall #login #web #privacy #e14n

Carolannie 9h ago

Here is a major driver in consumers' lack of confidence, why you can have people buying more stuff while feeling everything is getting worse and that they are worse off. Enshittification.
"As a 35-year-old software engineer in Pennsylvania wrote: “There is no compelling reason to want to stay in this country any more … The products that we buy are garbage and don’t last or need an app to use the product … You have to spend countless time researching, arguing with customer service reps and working around invasive ‘features’.” Everything is a “cash grab or a scam”, he added."
#Vibecession #Enshittification

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/20/guardian-readers-consumer-battles

How do people in the US describe customer service in 2026? ‘Debilitating, depressing, enraging. Ugh’

We asked people in the US about their customer service battles and hundreds responded on the financial and emotional costs

The Guardian

Daltux 10h ago

People keep complaining about it, so why would they insist on #Chrome? Why #Google's, specifically? They should know there is #UngoogledChromium if they really need a free (as in freedom) version of such a browser engine for some reason. Even better, how about using a free #Firefox fork? 💖

#freeSoftware #proprietarySoftware #webBrowsers #enshittification

Nielso 10h ago

Mein #Android hat beschlossen, mir nun irgendwelche News zu zeigen. Irgendwas von Iran, Fußball, Kongo… Und zwar als „Systemnachricht“ – klar, die kann man pauschal abklemmen, dann gibt's auch keine Benachrichtigung mehr, wenn jemand anruft.

#Enshittification durch Update eben. Der Normalfall in unserer IT-basierten Welt außerhalb von Linux.

Weiß jemand, was ich da machen könnte?