nixCraft 🐧What is the biggest bait and switch tactic you have seen in the tech industry?
LAURENMicro transactions for "Free" apps and services.
Chaotic Unicorn@nixCraft remote work offers that go from "full remote" to "it's allowed under certain conditions".
Jim P.@nixCraft Any device that was sold to a customer which required a remote service that suddenly either stopped working because the provider deemed it obsolete or moved that "free" service to a subscription model.
3Jane Tessier Ashpool@nixCraft free subscription but gimme your cc
Bredroll@nixCraft walled gardens, iphone app store, unrootable androids,
commonst@nixCraft this is your job description, this is your pay, you have the job, now go above and beyond or we will call you a slacker for doing what we just agreed to.
SirWumpus 👾🍁@nixCraft Musk buying Twitter.
Colorblind Cowboy@nixCraft Anything with the phrase “unlimited access.”
Oh, there are limits, just check the ULA.
Viss@nixCraft
- facebook saying they want your phone number for 2fa then using it for spam
- microsoft saying they would do security first after the crowdstrike decable then "just not, and then actively making it worse"
- netflix pricing plans with regard to ads
- chrome handling of adblockers
theres more
Scott Francis
Sally Strange@nixCraft "It's free... IF you give us your email"
jonny (good kind)@nixCraft it's so big we don't even recognize it as a bait and switch anymore usually - free service that occupies the space of an opposing corporate or foss alternative but is really a surveillance vector, e.g. gdocs, google maps, most of the platform web.
Licho
Takiro 🎨@nixCraft "Modernize our outdated software and bring it into the current century", turned into "support this mess until it dies and you are also the support hotline now."
Eric Mabuse@nixCraft Windows
Patrick Schmitz@nixCraft that is always the next thing. Every time you think they can't sink any lower, they will prove you wrong.
Görkem Koç@nixCraft buy app or game but it isn’t your own.
Marko G.@nixCraft "Starting tomorrow, our Apache-licensed software will be available under a premium subscription model.
"Don't worry! The FOSS version remains free for use and installation. Technical support will be ably handled by our expert forum consisting of six condescending power users and 1800 clueless normies like yourself.
"New features are available under the 'Fuck You, Freeloader' license and are available to users starting at the Enterprise Mega Pro tiers and above."
rozodru@nixCraft recent discussion on here reminded me that Kagi exists. a paid service search engine that says if you pay us we won't sell your data you can have 300 searches a month AND we won't give you ads or push stuff to you.
Meanwhile what you get for your $10 a month is slow ass performance, crappy results, and to top it all off a metric shit ton of AI slop.
Meanwhile what you get for your $10 a month is slow ass performance, crappy results, and to top it all off a metric shit ton of AI slop.
Dylan@rozodru @nixCraft Neat; I’ll have a look! Kinda reminds me of Copernic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernic) from the pre-Google days.
FWIW I typically get results back from Kagi in about 1s.
Anopka@nixCraft Basically anything starting enshittification after becoming industry standard.
Jon [🇺🇦,🏳️🌈]@nixCraft Its not the biggest, but to add an example: some cellular data plans will say unlimited but throttle to unusable speeds after ~20GB of data usage.
Advanced Persistent Teapot@nixCraft "all your friends are here and it's fun"
🌈 Kerblambuli 🦄@nixCraft Microsoft products which you could use offline are now online first and, first and foremost, now integrating either useless "AI" functionality or capabilities for sending telemetry to Microsoft servers that contains actual user data, supposedly for training "AI" models.
Oelnbod@nixCraft The tech industry.
Madagascar_SkyJust all of Chrome, and google products in general.
A most subtle play of Embrace, Extend and Extinguish.
Currently Android is in the process of being closed off. Youtube is drowning people in ads and warnings about ad blockers.
Mark Lynch@nixCraft ads on Amazon Prime Video. I’m already paying for your content you f**kers! 😡
Steven Hilton@nixCraft ai will create more jobs
@nixCraft The tech industry. Writ large.
When I started in tech (and had more and thicker hair) it was counter cultural.
Ben@nixCraft Facebook
gunstick@nixCraft we have a makerspace = they have a 3D printer in a box in a locked cupboard.
MajoraVim@nixCraft when google announced they would take away sideloading
guigonse@nixCraft selling (for more than 90's 3500€) a perpetual proprietary license but switching off the uninstall/reinstall license servers a few years ago.
Now I have a perpetual Pentium Dual and tones of parts staying in the office "legacy desktop".
Thank you Autodes*coughs*
Now I have a perpetual Pentium Dual and tones of parts staying in the office "legacy desktop".
Thank you Autodes*coughs*