7 October 2025

Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

This? Nice

WELCOME!

Voyager’s mentioned but unlinked so here ya go, it’s great!

https://vger.app/

One free host here:

https://catbox.moe/

Donation supported, been online for years now

Then can embed like this:

![](catbox.moe/video.mp4)

Hey I think your instance censored your post in case that’s unpalatable to ya

(Prob was a word I personally never use heh but the removal is grating anyways, oddly enough)

Thank you – I will be less frustrated next time I scroll through the iOS App Store change logs.

Could the EFF or individuals sponsor apps from devs who refuse to identify to Big Goog?

Dev sends EFF the source code,

EFF registers with Google,

EFF submits the app,

Everybody’s happy except a number of people for obvious reasons but at least the app’s verified

Maybe our phones are their f’in phones too

No way. Kind of awesome of them maybe unless ulterior motives

Honeypots / web traffic monitoring can work though

Everyone Googling “beat polygraph” gonna be in doo doo!

Hmm is that illegal (missing unsub link) in this case?

Shoop (can tell from pixels)

Apps watch how we move/rotate devices to understand whether we’re walking, resting, lying down, etc., I assume? (The most popular apps I mean with large data teams)

Wish that stuff could be turned off unless it was e.g. a game that made legitimate use of the accelerometer.

:)

Top web search results for “adblock test”—the top two, both, are usually good to both run (though I’ve never been too scientific about it)! One tries to show ads for your review, the other gives a % blocked.

Requires just about the latest iOS (18.6)

Also - Apple seems to be hiding it from search results on the App Store even though I found it a week ago!

Nice :D 2023 & more relevant of an answer than I expected to hear!

Which modern, and modern-looking, UI is closest to this?

How do all corporate logos keep moving in that direction too - some management consultants must be able to cite some studies about it

That is a scary announcement

:(

Authorized-hardware only when 🤔

Then we’re back to Telesyncs - will be cloud services with device + camera farms to help us rip videos that must be viewed on specific devices - those that pass checks ensuring the only output is on the screen itself

Then they’ll work on anti-recordable screens? :)

heh I’d like to trust that plan for sure

yt-dlp already tougher to use today than in years past—and assuming everything will survive new content deals, uploader purges, etc. is optimistic