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rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually🙄<a href="https://mastodon.well.com/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#enshittification</a> <a href="https://mastodon.well.com/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ai</a>

Flash Mob Of OneHad Pringles for the first time in years this week, and for some reason, they make me feel a tad queasy.I'm assuming something changed in how they make them. They taste okay, but man, they really do make my tummy queasy.Had to throw out the rest.<a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Pringles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Pringles</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Snacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Snacks</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Food</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Enshittification</a>

Kevin Karhan :verified:<a href="https://transfem.social/@vivianers" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@vivianers</a> thanks! <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-no-translation/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-no-translation/</a>I should propably start a list of extensions I have to shove into my <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Firefox</a> to make the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Enshitternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Enshitternet</a> bearable.<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Internet</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Enshittification</a>

Kevin Karhan :verified:<a href="https://chaos.social/@txt_file" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@txt_file</a> nodds in agreementI find <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Invidious" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Invidious</a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NewPipe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NewPipe</a> to be essential to not get nausea and puke from the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Enshittification</a> of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/YouTube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#YouTube</a>. <ul><li>And it's not as if I became "less tolerant" but that Enshittification ramped up! </li></ul>No wounder <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TechIlliterate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TechIlliterate</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Normies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Normies</a> experience not just "<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/BrainRot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BrainRot</a>" but rather "rapid onset <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P55t6eryY3g" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">radicalization"</a> from being bombarded with bullshit 24/7...

Carl<a href="https://infosec.exchange/@bob_zim" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@bob_zim</a> There had been interesting articles in the former socialist states. The GDR for instance had glasses, that were very hard to break. The technology to make durable items for everyday use is there. It is just incompatible with capitalism. <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#enshittification</a>. <a href="https://mstdn.social/@Npars01" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Npars01</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@thomasfuchs</a>

Martin RundkvistWonder what is said at high-level strategy meetings of the big tech multinationals about the mounting worldwide groundswell of intense public opinion against "<a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a>", unauthorised <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#surveillance</a> and the general <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#enshittification</a> of their services.

Nicole Parsons<a href="https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@thomasfuchs</a> Home appliances without internet surveillance also last longer.Chips were never intended to work with corrosive detergents, damp, vibration, constant use, and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#enshittification</a>'s accelerated planned obsolescence. <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/companies-might-soon-have-to-tell-you-when-their-products-will-die/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.wired.com/story/companies-might-soon-have-to-tell-you-when-their-products-will-die/</a>Home appliances that must be discarded every two years isn't sustainable. <a href="https://www.trillmag.com/news/planned-obsolescence-and-what-its-doing-to-us/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.trillmag.com/news/planned-obsolescence-and-what-its-doing-to-us/</a><a href="https://rabble.ca/columnists/planned-obsolescence-vs-the-right-to-repair/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://rabble.ca/columnists/planned-obsolescence-vs-the-right-to-repair/</a>Neither are surveillance systems. <a href="https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/singapore-enforce-cybersecurity-labelling-scheme-iot-devices" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/singapore-enforce-cybersecurity-labelling-scheme-iot-devices</a>

Dave Rahardja<a href="https://infosec.exchange/@kajer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@kajer</a> <a href="https://social.authbypass.com/@rickoooooo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@rickoooooo</a> Every one of these for-profit public-surveillance equipment companies will:1. Surveil and collect way more data than initially agreed upon 2. Sell said data to brokers 3. Sell access to said data to law enforcement 4. Train AI models on said data 5. Sell derivative products that infringe on their users’ liberty (e.g. pre-crime prediction, profiling, what have you) 6. Retain data far longer than they agreed to (through negligence or data-retention laundering) 7. Get hacked, releasing personally identifiable data to the criminal web 8. Get sold to another company that will use the data for things the initial contract never intendedThis happens every time. EVERY DAMN TIME.Say no to <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#surveillance</a>. No short-term “safety” benefit is worth this <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#enshittification</a>.

Maggie MaybeThis is pretty great. Someone is suing Workday for using AI in the hiring process that they claim is discriminatory.<a href="https://www.lawandtheworkplace.com/2025/06/ai-bias-lawsuit-against-workday-reaches-next-stage-as-court-grants-conditional-certification-of-adea-claim/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.lawandtheworkplace.com/2025/06/ai-bias-lawsuit-against-workday-reaches-next-stage-as-court-grants-conditional-certification-of-adea-claim/</a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#enshittification</a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/discrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#discrimination</a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/EmploymentLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EmploymentLaw</a>

AllynImagine merging 10K lines of code into your code base every day! Couldn’t be me<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#enshittification</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/aislop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aislop</a>

Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾Okay, I deleted the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Substack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Substack</a> app from my phone and tablet. I have to admit that I have no control. I have zero control stopping myself from looking at the FYP feed. I have zero control at being annoyed by hot takes. And I definitely have zero control sometimes at typing back at these hot takes. So for the safety of everybody, including myself, I have deleted the apps and I hope it'll be permanent.I still remember the day I signed up for Substack. This was way before Notes was a thing, way before they thought they could turn their newsletter delivery platform into social media. I knew that <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#enshittification</a> was on its way, but I'm a practical girl - I prefer to think of them as tools rather than platforms that need to be ideologically aligned with me.But god, you know, the amount of toxicity that has increased thanks to Notes is appalling. I'm trying to remember how people used to discover each other. I think we discovered each other through organic recommendations. I often found people through Substack's community posts where people just hung out and talked. I miss those forums. I used to click on people who sounded interesting and, well, sane.But now with these social media dynamics, you get exposed to people you don't want to get exposed to. And your content gets exposed to people you don't want to get exposed to. Before Notes, discovery was a little bit safer and more controlled. Your newsletter was often recommended by like-minded people or people who shared your interests. I don't think discovery via social media dynamics is a healthy thing. You get all kinds of people, and many of them do not discuss or interact with you in good faith. I think I have been two pampered by Mastodon. 😅 I am no longer used to normie social media.<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#socialmedia</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"I believe GPT-5 is part of a larger process happening in generative AI — enshittification, Cory Doctorow’s term for when platforms start out burning money offering an unlimited, unguarded experience to attract their users, then degrade and move features to higher tiers as a means of draining the blood from users. With the launch of GPT-5, OpenAI has fully committed to enshittifying its consumer and business subscription products, arbitrarily moving free users to a cheaper model and limiting their ability to generate images, and removing the ability to choose which model you use in its $20, $35 and “enterprise” subscriptions, moving any and all choice to its “team” and $200-a-month “pro” subscriptions. OpenAI’s justification is an exercise in faux-altruism, framing “taking away all choice” as a “real-time router that quickly decides which [model] to use.” ChatGPT Plus and Team members now mostly have access to two models — GPT-5 and GPT-5-Thinking — down from the six they had before. This distinction is quite significant. Where users once could get hundreds of messages a day on OpenAI’s o4-mini-high and o4-mini reasoning models, GPT-5 for ChatGPT Plus subscribers offers 200 reasoning (GPT-5-thinking) messages a week, with 80 GPT-5 messages every 3 hours which allow you to ask it to “think” about its answer, shoving you over to an undisclosed reasoning model. This may seem like a good deal, OpenAI is likely putting you on the cheapest model whenever it can in the name of “the best choice.”"<a href="https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshittification-of-generative-ai/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshittification-of-generative-ai/</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenAI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChatGPT</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GPT5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GPT5</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Enshittification</a>

MattCompanies shouldn't be using YouTube to host their videos if it means we have to create an account and sign in to watch them. <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Ikea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ikea</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Enshittification</a>

Dendrobatus AzureusThis is a view of the Gigagbyte miniPC that burned itself out with the miniscule CPU (APU) fan clearly visible, which is not even large enough in CFM power to cool a GPU made 15 years ago<a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Gigabyte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gigabyte</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#enshittification</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/miniPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#miniPC</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/heat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#heat</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/hardware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hardware</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/AMD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AMD</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/cooling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cooling</a>

Chris Wolff"Change your profile picture to clippy. I'm serious" <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_Dtmpe9qaQ" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_Dtmpe9qaQ</a> <a href="https://gts.pebcak.me/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Enshittification</a> <a href="https://gts.pebcak.me/tags/youtube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#YouTube</a> <a href="https://gts.pebcak.me/tags/mircrosoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mircrosoft</a> <a href="https://gts.pebcak.me/tags/clippy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Clippy</a> <a href="https://gts.pebcak.me/tags/louisrossmann" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LouisRossmann</a>

Marcel SIneM(S)US<a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Enshittification</a>: Wenn gute Produkte und Webdienste verhunzt werden | c’t uplink | c't Magazin <a href="https://www.heise.de/news/Enshittification-Wenn-gute-Produkte-und-Webdienste-verhunzt-werden-c-t-uplink-10498855.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.heise.de/news/Enshittification-Wenn-gute-Produkte-und-Webdienste-verhunzt-werden-c-t-uplink-10498855.html</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/PlatformCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PlatformCapitalism</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Plattformkapitalismus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Plattformkapitalismus</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/ctuplink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ctuplink</a>

Maikel 🇪🇺 🇪🇸<a href="https://masto.bike/@alter_unicorn" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@alter_unicorn</a> the stupid thing is impossible to remove with uBlock origin because it doesn't use a SENSIBLE id but one that keeps changing. So the only way to get rid of it is to write a custom Firefox extension that on google.com finds the word "AI Overview" and removes the entire parent div that contains it. <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Google</a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Enshittification</a>

JWcph, Radicalized By DecencyOnly systemic action can fix systemic problems. I said this the other day & here <a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@pluralistic</a> says it much better: Our only way forward is solidarity. Find your people. <a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/31/unsatisfying-answers/#systemic-problems" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/31/unsatisfying-answers/#systemic-problems</a> <a href="https://helvede.net/tags/resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#resist</a> <a href="https://helvede.net/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#enshittification</a> <a href="https://helvede.net/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#business</a> <a href="https://helvede.net/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tech</a>

Vijay PremaNice write-up about the benefits of switching to a paid search engine (Kagi).I like the "boat tied to a submarine" analogy of a lot of other free software that might seem good at first but is still not user-funded. As a user, I prefer to be the sole funder of the product I use, where possible, so that it fully serves me, its master. This is what it means to be the master of my own tools. I paid money for them.<a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/enough-is-enough-i-dumped-googles-worsening-search-for-kagi/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/enough-is-enough-i-dumped-googles-worsening-search-for-kagi/</a><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/kagi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kagi</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#google</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/search" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#search</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Enshittification</a>

SpaceLifeFormYou can't shine shit, but ChatGPT is trying anyway.<a href="https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/chatgpt-users-outraged-as-gpt-5-replaces-the-models-they-love/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/chatgpt-users-outraged-as-gpt-5-replaces-the-models-they-love/</a><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Enshittification</a>

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