Newsletter: The tech industry has turned on the consumer, using abusive, manipulative software as a means of extracting wealth from every corner of our lives. Both society and the tech media must fight back, as I believe many of us deeply love our tech.
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It's so ironic that in the US, a paladin of private property, our private life has absolute no value, and it is continuously exploited by the morally inept tech-bros.
But google gave us free email 22 years ago, so I guess paying for hardware and getting non-spyware by default is out of fashion.
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/a-2023-study-concluded-captchas-are-a-tracking-cookie-farm-for-profit-masquerading-as-a-security-service-that-made-us-spend-819-billion-hours-clicking-on-traffic-lights-to-generate-nearly-usd1-trillion-for-google/
(tl;dr: having to click on photos of motorcycles in order to access your account is pretty much just giving some AI somewhere free training data and doesn't especially hamper scammers or bot traffic.)
How strange that every corp you interact with suddenly "needing" to have your phone number on file coincides with the meteoric rise in phone spam.
a) every company that stores this information never suffers a data breach or changes their TOS to allow them to share your info with other parties, and
b) no one has ever successfully stolen a phone or spoofed a SIM card.
SMS 2FA on the other hand very much suffers from the problems you mention, hence why stuff like passkey apps or devices are becoming the new requirements.
(unfortunately I have cybersecurity qualifications, and have seen why it's needed)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
The core business model of hyper-scale companies doesn't just have limits, it gets to a point of self-cannibalisation.
https://www.wheresyoured.at/what-were-fighting-for/
https://www.wheresyoured.at/what-were-fighting-for/
https://www.wheresyoured.at/what-were-fighting-for/
About how technology has been honed into a (wicked) legal instrument to replace (pro individual) property law with (pro business) contract law.
What grave misuse of such potential!
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=917926
If you have Android download F-Droid and have a look at alternatives.
OP hates this which is why he blocked me for pointing out that his reasoning misses the source of the problem.
We're serfs to the platform, bound by the network effect
https://www.wheresyoured.at/what-were-fighting-for/
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So much for leaving the gleanings...
the only successful businesses anymore are those feeding on the decay of our society
That was so great!
As a small example of the enshitification, minesweeper on the old windows machines, snake on the nokia 1000 series, even doodle jump on my first “smart” phone purchased around 2010. Yes these were a waste of time, but they were an ad free, unconnected waste of time.
Modern tech is a way to make people think a certain way, value certain things and show hostility to certain people.
Blocked. I recommend blocking and just moving on.
Where are they going to move to, EU? China? Russia?
I think in my mind I was just considering the office productivity tools 😢
Sorry for misunderstanding!
If you have salient ideas, write your own goddamned pieces instead of whining about an actual journalist’s hard work.
It was an absolute failure as critique, and you’re not owed agreement either.
(thanks for your concern, but countering irritating bullshit is really healthy for me :)
Hope that helps, social media understander!
It's like they conspired to reinforce the point of the newsletter in the most meta way possible.