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Ed Zitron@zitron.bsky.social |
This week's newsletter: Big tech is looting the internet, making every platform actively hostile to the user, turning Facebook, Google Search and Instagram into products that no longer provide a service while making shareholders hundreds of billions of dollars.
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ChemicalProphet
@chemicalprophet.bsky.social
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Also, wherever you go, there you are!
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Melos Ferrum 𓅄
@melosferrumvt.bsky.social
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Something something something tendency of rate of profit to fall relative to the burdens of capital ownership something something
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My Buddy Valentine
@mexhistorian.bsky.social
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How timely as I just deleted my Instagram. It used to be a nice little distraction 6 or 7 years ago and steady devolved into a dumpster fire.
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riwoche རི་བོ་ཆེ་
@riwoche.bsky.social
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Yes to everything Ed Zitron writes, especially: "Underpinning these ultra-profitable torture-machines is an online ads industry built off the back of screwing advertisers and users alike." The DoubleClick guys won, and daily underscore they killed off the Google founders' mantra of "don't be evil"
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Defiant Jazz Enthusiast
@cicadaqueen.bsky.social
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Seems utterly pointless to follow anyone on those platforms because you never see their content once you do.
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@paultb.bsky.social
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Really appreciated your Better Offline pod - there aren't many critical voices around, cheers
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Land Moose
@landmoose.bsky.social
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"People" are getting angry at these guys, yes-- but in critical enough mass? Are we the noisy 2% that they can just steamroll?
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Cerril
@cerril.bsky.social
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FYI I'm seeing the same behavior from your ghost account as I was with @theradr.bsky.social - because it's sending on behalf of your wheresyoured .at domain rather than straight from a ghost address, the automated 'this isn't junk mail' won't whitelist the correct address.
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Wednesday
@genericpanic.bsky.social
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I was starting to suspect when google asked me for feet pics....
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ᕼᕮY I'ᗰ, ＫᖇＹᔕＴi D.
@totallynomadic.bsky.social
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Good shit
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Kaitlin Has Had Enough
@gothamgirlblue.com
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📌
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General Strike Now
@422skadoo.bsky.social
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Corporations are looting everything.
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Ed Zitron
@zitron.bsky.social
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Together, Instagram, Facebook and Google make ~$300bn in revenue a year, but have abdicated any duty to their users, offering not a "service" but as many ways as possible to interrupt the user to push them into doing things that make the company money.
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Dustin
@dusty1.bsky.social
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I got a 30 day ban on facebook for saying “b!tch”. I am sick of the bans from that punkass algorithm!
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Aric and the Spookysaurus
@hatkidsays.bsky.social
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The commodification of everything sucks so fucking hard
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word
@words.bsky.social
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well did you buy the food supplement they so desperately target you with
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DJDynamicNC (he/him)
@djdynamicnc.bsky.social
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This was very good! (The article, not what big tech is doing lol)
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@patrickdavitt.bsky.social
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Terrific analysis.
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El Topo
@eltopo71.bsky.social
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It's enshittification at its finest! I stopped using FB several months ago and there's really no incentive for me to go back, especially as I already noticed that a lot of FB ads were *very* obvious scams that Meta nevertheless approved.
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@clockdivider.bsky.social
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I will repeat my mantra: Firefox ublock origin noscript better twitter FB Purity Fuck IOS
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C. Gull
@c-gull.bsky.social
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This. We can’t even enjoy a single video without an ad at the beginning, 3 ad interruptions in the video, and an ad after the video and the only solution given to us is to pay the corporation creating the problem to make the problem go away.
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🌑 Lilith 🕉
@mimi-gig.bsky.social
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Great reading, thanks for that
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RockGod
@thehoustonwade.bsky.social
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The enshitification of everything...
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The chicken lady
@chickenlady.bsky.social
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On top of everything, they're taking away your life resources. Giving away water for clicks seems peak stupidity.
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Lana
@lanap.bsky.social
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Only just this morning I realised Google lens was no longer part of my 'share to' options, something I used to verify images quickly. It did make me a bit sad actually.
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Clem Fandango
@uglybarbarian.bsky.social
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Related: www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...
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®PG
@realphilgold.bsky.social
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I just hope that they fuck up android with AI, its going to destroy mobile market in lightning speed
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@arajay.com
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> the modern internet has become somewhere between a social experiment and a human mining operation
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Mat G
@gienieczko.com
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>Devin(...) spent hours(...) to identify and resolve bugs in its own sloppy code. I’d say it has the engineering ability of a 1st CompSci undergrads, but that would be unfair to 1st CompSci undergrads I assure you 1st year CS students produce more original & interesting bugs than Devin ever could
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