Zorin =^o.o^=

This really feels like the year of the enshittification of the Internet. It feels like everything online is getting a bit worse. Almost every major website has started instituting anti-user policies, for example,

- Netflix: Raising prices, stopping account sharing
- YouTube: Blocking ad blockers, raising prices for Premium
- Twitter: You know. This server has a 1000+ character limit and this entry alone would fill it.
- Reddit: Killed their API, hostile towards third party client authors and refused to negotiate with them

And more I can't think of right now.

It's like the entire big tech industry got together and said "Let's fuck over our entire userbase and not give a shit."

It's no wonder some of us here on Mastodon are pissed off at Bluesky and Threads because you know they will do the same shit. I wish people could SEE this and realize that big corporate websites are on the express train to hell and opening the throttle more and more as they see users tolerate it.

Jul 27, 2023 at 1:30pmWeb
Show threadLuna Dragofelis ΘΔ moved to @[email protected]Jul 27, 2023
@zorinlynx The golden age of the corporate web is over.
Show threadjanusfox 🍅Jul 27, 2023
@zorinlynx Yeah, seems worse than other years. Internet Enshittification has been a thing since it's introduction really. Everything ends up with ads, click bait, micropayments given enough time. I used to be able to message people without giving out personal information. Or join chat rooms without a drivers license and a credit card. When the internet was more than a conglomerate of 10 giant corporations and 10K marketing people.
Show threadezriJul 27, 2023
@zorinlynx don’t forget web environment integrity
Show threadPost-Coitus MaloneJul 27, 2023
@zorinlynx hell, it's not just websites, Google's Web Environment Integrity proposal which basically boils down to drm that locks users into using their browser or lose access to sites that implement the drm. Apple has already shipped a form of this in Safari
Show threadRobots can be gay deal with itJul 27, 2023
@zorinlynx Don't forget Chrome trying to add DRM to the internet to stop ad blockers.
Show threadkeirFoxJul 27, 2023
@zorinlynx So I keep hearing about YT blocking blockers but...so far this hasn't hit me yet? Is this actually in place right now?
Show threadZorin =^o.o^=Jul 27, 2023
@keirFox It's something they're testing on a subset of users and haven't fully rolled out yet, but it's coming.
Show threadTanaki (pumpkin spice loaf)Jul 27, 2023
@zorinlynx the positive side: i'm happy that more and more of us are going "nah i'm going back to the internet, cya suckers"