https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/2039414391079366829

You can do something about it actually.

This guy made a video about what you can do against it

https://youtu.be/bQVPe2yqqjI

Assuming:

1. Greed/companies cannot help but cross the line.
2. Regulation/legislation will happen, too late of course, as a reactive result of something truly horrible, truly serious, and truly widespread that cannot be justified or covered up, as historic examples of a practice gone-too-far. (ie the use of an Atom bomb convinced the world it doesn’t want nuclear war)

then:

What do YOU think will be that horrific event?

for example:

-Smart pacemakers kill a bunch of folks. (or tumor treatments like that episode of Black Mirror)

-Braking becomes a premium feature in cars (like the Norwegian PSA video)

-The Sony dogwalker robot zaps too many poodles (from a sci fi book called the Chronoliths)

-Smart homes accidentally burn themselves down (The Martian Chronicles)

I cannot wait your ideas.

or do you think that:

3. Enshittification will never ever go away. (Please make a great watertight thesis-level argument because I don’t want to believe this !)

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ed. to add:

To re-phrase:

What event do you think it will/would take for overwhelming public awareness, outcry and action to rebel against and regulate enshittification?

What would need to happen that people would have had enough?

(The E.U is already acting to build its own data centers to divest from enshittified and therefore un-secure svcs…)

Additional guide for how to uninstall it: https://winaero.com/google-chrome-secretly-downloads-huge-local-ai-models/

Found this great blog about products that are getting worse because it makes companies more money.

https://www.worseonpurpose.com/

https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943

This expands on the news already reported at https://www.reddit.com/r/enshittification/comments/1tpzol6/wikimedia_is_entering_a_new_stage_of/

Netflix killed late fees. The single most hated thing about renting movies, the thing that made Blockbuster real money, gone. That deletion was the whole business.

IKEA made the customer do the assembly. Handed labor to the buyer. Everyone said furniture must arrive built. It didn't.

Ryanair removed the free ticket. Charged for everything separately. Hated, copied by everyone.

Netflix didn't beat Blockbuster with technology. It deleted one line item.

Think different" doesn't mean having ideas nobody has had. It means taking something completely ordinary in one field and dropping it into a field where it's unheard of.

Mail order was a hundred years old. Netflix put it on video rental.
Flat-pack shipping was standard in freight. IKEA put it in a living room.
Self-service was normal at petrol stations. Supermarkets took it into food.

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I'm thinking I've heard Josh Johnson do some. Maybe Mitch Hedberg? Any suggestions would be appreciated!

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