Someone needs to develop an extension that will generate random false searches when I’m not online to throw up tons of false trails to muck up our profiles.
Counter espionage the shit out of them!
Friends don’t let friends use chrome.
Sometimes a website just does not work in Firefox, even with exceptions allowed in Noscript etc., & the reflex action is to just try it in Chrome. Is Edge any better in this regard, being (IIRC) based on Chrome? Asking for a friend
It’s true - some sites are bad. Most of the time I’ll decide not to go to a site that doesn’t work with firefox and noscript, but for those I absolutely have to visit, I have a chromium version for that.
do we need another topic for old-school shittiness
Kroger are classic enshittifiers. They closed all the (solidly mid-market) Kroger stores in our area, completely vacating about half of them and replacing the other half with (thoroughly up-market, and non-union to boot) Harris Teeters.
This, I think, is indicative of a kind of economic enshittification that we maybe don’t talk about enough, where the middle of the market is being hollowed out and everyone is being pushed to the top of the non-luxury market or (if they have any alternative at all) the downmarket options like Dollar General.
Don’t set up the “smart” part of the TV. Let your cable, Roku stick, tablet, etc. do the work, not the TV itself.
Brave. Uses a Crome engine, but blocks the nasty bits. Very good version for Android, too.
Charlie Warzel writing about the enshittification of streaming TV, he even credits Cory for the term
https://archive.ph/GO7mu
Paywalled original version
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/09/streaming-services-netflix-max-cost/675264/
The jokes really write themselves, don’t they.
It needs to enable extensions tho. I use my tablet with YouTube running on brave for music while I work, and not having the YouTube non stop extension is annoying as fuck.
Thanks for the thread.
Off topic. Saw @doctorow and his new book mentioned in today’s NYT. Made me think of past times. Was explaining to my wife about BB, etc.
I enjoy Cory’s Pluralistic blog
Not sure if the timing was coincidental, correlated or causal but seemingly trading Cory for Stack Commerce on BB was a rough trade
Yes. I enjoy Pluralistic too. I came here for Cory, when he was first writing, and then I met Mark, and fell in love with the place. Met Bruce Sterling as a result of BoinbBoing, at a long ago meetup.
I miss Cory, but this place isn’t for him. 
To some extent it has long made me want to just stop coming here, but I don’t.
I subscribe to a reddit group that posts about libraries-- I pay most attention to the bits about censorship. Often links are posted without commentary, such as this one.
The article lacks any sort of punch, and the ledes (such as they are) are buried in bureaucratic jargon. I think they want to censor books.
It’s a local paper, but I would have expected better from any fresh J-school graduate.
Unity has transitioned from a company that makes a useful platform for game developers, to a stock operation that sees developers as money mines to be exploited to make the number go up.
I didn’t dive into it, but it sounds hair-raising.
They’ll bill developers for game installs. Even existing 10-year-old games. “Install, delete, install” counts as two installs. No real information on how they’d protect against automated mass installs targeting a developer to drive them out of business. (Which the gamergate types would definitely do against “woke” games.)
I feel sad for developers with a huge investment in developing for Unity.
Brought to mind a (very not enshittified) band from my misspent youth!
(Off topic, but if you know me and my music addiction, not unexpected.)
Thank you for that! I’ve wondered for years (as recently as a week or 2 ago) what that song was & who recorded it. I see that it got “only” as high as #58 on the US charts, but it definitely had some airplay where I lived
(Previously:)
I also remember the band peforming (or pantomiming?) “All Touch” on some cable special (probably Showtime), like SNL or some 60s/70s variety show, but with toplessness. (I think Harry Anderson was on, too)
ETA: I don’t remember hearing the song in about 40 years but obviously it stuck with me…
