RoundcatThe state of the internet 2023
#enshitification #twitter #reddit #google #fediverse #meta #facebook #youtube #elon #lemmy #mastodon
AndrewAPI changes*
dab ym spoo!
Earthsiege… Are those words?
Read it backwards
No no, they changed their beer. Added more hops to it.
Changing a beer to an IPA is actually a pretty good analogy, according to this beer lover who doesn’t like overly hoppy ones…
Fuck, IPA is the only type of beer I like consistently.
Well, to each their own, I guess 🤷
To me, it tastes like if elderberries and pine needles were able to defecate, they did so in the same bucket and then a ferret pissed in it 😛
Nah, nah, it was the International Phonetic Alphabet. Can’t have something like that on the 'murican internet.
use a vpn. when will they make VPNs illegal? 2060? 2050? 2030? 2024? August 2023?
Ok, I’m going to need to see some ID.
Oh no, not the Pub Environment Integrity
Easy there, McLovin
charlesDeliberate typo for increased engagement.
witter bought y musk
✨~Kori Kitsune~✨@Roundcat GOOGLE DID WHAT?!
DestideDyslexic’s being attacked by that font
DRM is stupid because it interferes with paying customers and isn’t effective. If there’s a will there’s a way
AndreyAsimowI guess we have to get a subscription on top of our monthly internet bill to use the internet.
FlakyNot one-for-one, but the BBC actually wanted to put a tax on broadband bills in response to the resentment towards the TV License.
Maybe there wouldn’t be so much resentment if they didn’t send you threatening letters despite not using the service?
*loicense
TakCan’t wait to have to subscribe to everything and they’ll still sell my data
entropicdriftAnd serve you unblockable ads!
It’s the enshittification of Chrome
It’s also stupid because it’s encryption but Bob and Eve are the same person.
TimeSquirrelFor the millionth time, Stallman was right.
Yep, you send me html, my browser can interpret it any way that I want it to. If I want to ignore all of the image and script tags, I can.
I don’t need Chrome or even Chromium. As Stallman says, you should know what is running on your system.
We need to go back to html and css. Using an ad blocker and noscript literally breaks webpages. I just want to read the article! You know the content ppl actually come for
tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺But how is all the bloat going to get to you then? HTML with some images is equally functional and loads in a fraction of the time, because it is actually efficient. Nobody could want that could they?
How the fuck are people using the internet without an adblocker?
It is pracitcally impossible to differentiate content from ads. And i was just talking about all the bloat without the ads. Thank you for sharing this, i never thought it’d be this bad.
I can see legitimate uses for java script, like popping out a menu. But it seriously needs its capabilities restricted.
It just occured to me that I wonder how a text browser addresses all this
washingtonpost.com/…/voters-progressive-trump-har…
Just tried it on browsor
Why watch the news when you can learn everything from memes
I hadn’t heard of the YouTube thing. Doesn’t matter because I don’t use it, but it’s still outrageous.
I am willing to watch an ad or two every 15 minutes, so long as they are no more than a minute total of wasted time. This ultra-monetization crap where it’s a minute and a half every 5 minutes is why people use AdBlockers and pirate media.
Be reasonable as a business, and you’ll get a reasonable response. Flood my free time with ads, and you get AdBlock and piracy.
God we need an alternative to YouTube
It’s called PeerTube.
The problem is that with video there’s a larger separation between users and content creators. Services like Mastodon and Lemmy can grow just from users switching to them because users themselves also post the content, but PeerTube isn’t going to grow until the people making videos start posting them there.
spidermanthat’s what the problem is. youtube has a wide range of users who got cozy to the platform where many of them doesn’t even care about using adblockers. also, content creators got used to it. so making them shift their platform to something new is harder than making them shift from reddit to lemmy or twitter to mastadon.
Fascinating
Arguably the bigger problem is the sheer volume of video data. Any even slightly successful independent YouTube clone will be wiped out by the hosting costs.
Google in 2004: don’t be evil
Google in 2023: turns into Dr. Evil
Now we can scream that they’re truly evil
Can someone explain? I’m definitely out of the loop on this one
Jack
shit, this sounds terrifying
Stop using chrome. Yes brave is chrome
SkullGamer205 
@nicman24 firefox is not chromium....
are you saying firefox is chrome? because i wanted to thank you for exposing me to the stupidest shit ill read today, thank you for getting it out the way early.
I think he means Firefox is not Chromium-based; Chrome is a proprietary code base, no one can access it besides internal Google employees. Chromium, on the other hand, is open source, and is what browsers such as Edge, Firefox, and Opera are based off of. Chrome is also based off Chromium, it’s the closed source browser Google distributes. Think of Chromium as Android, and the Pixel UI as Chrome.
So no, I doubt he means Firefox is Chrome.
Incorrect dukk. Firefox isn’t built on Chromium, Firefox predates google let alone Google chromium.
I’m not saying Firefox uses Chromium? I specifically said that Firefox ISN’T based off Chrome/Chromium.
VeniconeBut you left it up like a real OG, respect.
Firefox is the only major browser standing today that’s not based on Chromium/Gecko, so you’re right there.
Firefox does not predate Google. Firefox is a descendant of Mozilla, which started as a broken chunk of quickly open sourced Netscape Navigator 4.0 code. Netscape’s engineers ripped out everything they didn’t hold a license to and dumped it raw (and uncompilable) on the web for the OSS community to rebuild. This happed just before Netscape was finished being acquired by AOL.
AOL did rebrand Netscape Navigator as AOL Browser, but it didn’t gain any significant market share.
Google was founded about the same time (about two years later) as Netscape Navigator was released. So, you can either say Firefox’s history is older than Google or the actual Firefox project is younger than Google.
In February 1998, approximately one year prior to its acquisition by AOL, Netscape released the source code for its browser and created the Mozilla Organization
Google Founded September 4, 1998
Mozilla, Gecko and what everyone now commonly refers to as Firefox predates Google.
We’re all technically correct so far. Since that’s the best kind of correct I say we high five and enjoy reveling in our knowledge of nerddom history.
The best kind indeed. You’re a good human.
Nope. Firefox doesn’t use Chromium at all. It’s based on Gecko, and entirely different codebase that predates chromium.