That won't destroy their community.

edit: Because people who use chrome, doesn't care about privacy, freedom or anything like that.

Web environment integrity.

I should start marketing cyanide as a painkiller too, goddamn.

And what are zoom employees using from the office to sell their product? Why no other than a fine Zoom call, from our desk to yours!

Oh I'm so done with their shit.

Don't forget strong policies to keep everything from enshittifying all over again! Check out Cory Doctorow's thoughts from DefCon: https://youtu.be/rimtaSgGz_4?feature=shared

Time to return to the OG internet then?

And now you've got carmakers looking to charge by the month for features.

When I reach the point at which I am forced to buy a car like that, I'd just find out from where the feature gets controlled and hack in my own controller and a good 'ol switch.

Cory Doctorow’s new book delves into this as well. I’m 2/3 through but it defines the problem very well for laymen and prescribes how to solve it.

This was very common and resulted in things like IBM PC clones that sped up innovation.

i don't think it was due to reverse engineering but bcz of releasing specification by IBM them self due to which other manufacturer where able to make identical clone and can run extracted BIOS from IBM PC without any modification!

Warcraft 3 reforged, Diablo Immortal, Diablo 4, ow2, anything else?

Well this year was overwatch 2, which was pretty much the same game but wrapped in skeezy monetization, with the excuse that they needed to drop a sequel (and delete the original) for their new PVE content. Then a few months later, they announced they weren't even going to do the PVE content, but they were keeping the new monetization.

Overwatch 2 PvE got cancelled, although it was basically the selling point of OW2.

Seriously? They've been one of the most shitty companies for years. They've been on the top of the most talked about and widely shown because of all their bad decisions. How does anyone who has even a remote idea and interest about this not know that?

I could've sworn that they said win 10 was going to be the last windows and it would just receive updates.

99% of people who use Windows wouldn't even mind, I think.

I sure hope so. It's about damn time.

godot

They’re at a turning point alright. To be fair sounds like things are better, new dev fund but still

I support all of this. Especially the fediverse.

You forgot car companies asking for subscriptions to use your heated seats.

Charge more, pay and offer less.

What did Epic do?

All of the animation industry.

Corporate enshitification and the Woke/anti-Woke debate are two very different things.

Casino industry. I.e. mgm, penn, Caesars, station casinos, etc.

That's EAs former CEO lmao

I just think people shouldn't be chided for doing what is convenient when so much of our economy is attention based. Kind of like hating the players instead of the game.

I'm surprised they made it this long. Never bought into their cutesy signaling.

But also, that place felt oppressive with a smiling face.

It really needs a competitor

I hear Discord is due for its enshitification

I'd really like to be able to use it without having to give up my cell phone number to do so, especially when I'm on my PC / web browser.

The streaming industry has been slowly burning down for a while now. I see more and more people pirating than buying another subscription for another fucking streaming platform that has like one good show to watch.

Well, shares are company value, not product value. And companies are valued by their ability to create value. A terrible decision usually doesn't mean much, and share price fluctuation is mainly speculative in nature. A large company may survive a bad CEO, and create value down the road. Even a crashing company has value, as it may be split and sold with a profit, turning shares into cash.

All in all, as much as I hate, EA for example, they have a strong position and can easily eat up failed releases for years to come. Many of their releases are payed off with only pre-orders.

Also, for a long time back until this year, money used to be close to free. Now interest is way up and suddenly companies are forced with the prospect of needing more revenue.

Continued unlimited growth turns out to be not sustainable...

I don't know, but the guy is having a hard time.

Seems to be from the "No Poop July" trend a few months ago.

Twitter, Reddit, and Unity have not been profitable. This was fine when money was cheap (near zero interest rates). The market was awash with capital trying to find something that could turn a profit. A business plan that was basically underpants gnomes (1. Gather underpants 2. ???? 3. Profit!) was acceptable. Twitter’s and Reddit’s 1. was “gather users”, Unity’s “gather projects”. Now money isn’t free anymore, and capital is demanding that these businesses fill in 2. with something. Twitter is doing whatever Musk thinks is good, Reddit is trying to monetize its API to make AIs pay and to serve real users ads through its first party app, and Unity is trying to monetize the projects it has gathered. All of them have been offering a product below cost, and users are understandably angry that the cost is going up. (And in many cases, finding that the product isn’t really worth anything.)

Blizzard is different. It operates in a creative field and has been very profitable. Games are art as much as they are products that are sold. As such, they’re fickle: you can’t assembly line manufacture games and make a hit after hit. Artists in music that turn out bangers decade after decade are rare, as are authors, directors, etc. Blizzard’s streak of awesome games was bound to end eventually. AAA games are also extremely expensive to make: if you make an AAA game, it must be a hit or you’ll lose money. Alternatively, you can use dark patterns to monetize it, then it doesn’t have to be as good to make loads of money. Banking on your creatives to keep beating the odds is risky; infesting a good enough game with scummy monetization is a safer bet.

It varies from company to company, but when infinite growth becomes unrealistic they get desperate for new revenue and start doing shitty nickel and dime tactics.

More specifically for Reddit thoughts are they realized that these new AI tools had already pilfered all of “their” content and they did not see a cent from it and responded wildly.

All these guys talk to each other, they don't really have unique ideas

Disruption to settle into a new norm.

I keep up to date with a lot of tech stuff through youtube so I genuinely don't know who can offer a service as big and reliable as google. I'm pretty sure they're offering at a loss or something right? I've tried Peertube and Oddysee but not all creators are on those platforms.

I've done my part. 🏴‍☠️ Cancelled that shit immediately.

That's what happens to monopolies and oligopolies. Pretty much unilaterally. That is the steady state of capitalism without very heavy government regulation

Plex has been like this for years, I dropped it as soon as the first jellyfin version was out. Fuck everything about plex

They've banned the use of Hetzner

I’m still using Plex successfully. I bought the lifetime pass for $75 a few years back and they haven’t been able to track me down and kill me off, so my movies find me wherever I pause long enough to watch a few minutes

Plex has been garbage for longer than their latest outrage.

Oh really? I was just thinking about trying it. Maybe I'll look at other options first then.

Why jellyfin?

Preference aside, Plex has a single cheap lifetime pass that you don’t absolutely need, I don’t see how they can compare to any of this corporate squeeze you for every dime you got bullshit akin to blizzard and friends

Sure, but many of the decisions probably don't even get them extra sgort-term money. They're just bad in every aspect.

I actually don’t think so.

See it looks like Mozilla needs Google, but it’s actually the opposite.

Google needs Mozilla more than Mozilla needs Google.

Google is in a huge antitrust suit over chrome and web searches. They’re in trouble.

They need to be able to show that there’s a valid competitor, and Mozilla is the only REAL competitor, all the rest are little more than skins on chrome.

Look up Microsoft in their antitrust suit. They invested heavily in Apple, literally saving Apple from bankruptcy just so that they weren’t the only show in town because having eliminated all your competitors makes the antitrust suit a slam fucking dunk.

Have hope my young padawan, there is still some moves left to be played.

I see literally no incentive for them to limit their API to just the Google version of Manifest v3. If I recall correctly they already expanded their implementation to offer more.

If they ever implement WEI (the "web DRM") then it's because the Internet forces their hand. A web browser is only as useful as the websites it can browse. If our banks will demand WEI support Mozilla doesn't have much choice. We need to worry about the website providers changing the web, not Mozilla adjusting Firefox to these changes. In the latter case it's already too late and it's hard to blame Mozilla at this point.

People wouldn’t use Firefox if it couldn’t run google and if it made bing default then you’d see a bunch of idiots making memes about how it’s so bad and they won’t use it because it’s default

Google has been worse than bing for a decade and chrome has been worse than Firefox for longer. But people still use them and think they are the best.

You even have people make jokes about edge only existing to download chrome

I feel like you vastly overestimate the audience

That would be a tragedy

I'm honestly astonished that Google hasn't pulled the plug on Mozilla yet. After all, their missions completely and utterly oppose each other and Mozilla probably causes the biggest losses to Google.

If your prediction comes true, which isn't unlikely, Firefox forks that already exist would probably take its spot. Or privacy friendly Chromium based browsers. I know, the latter sounds like an oxymoron, but they exist and one of them I would be hated on for naming has actually been proven to have better out of the box privacy than Firefox.

While depressing, it makes sense, seeing as this market model isn’t sustainable in the long term, let alone short term.

Interest rates went up and with it the era of free money. Now the investors come knocking for profits and lots of it. As they get squeezed, they squeeze the customer harder with worse products and services for more money.

I sometimes do wonder if the rich are just all in the endgame now and we’re just like but we didn’t even get a turn!

Whats wrong with Brother? Bought one of their toner printers recently. Doesn't require any bullshit drivers, borderline malware software, or even genuine toner cartridges.

Shit was up and running within 60 seconds and prints/scans on Windows, Android, Mac, Linux, (and maybe iOS idk) without any additional software.

What did they do?

What did they do?

Mostly same old bullshit just add D4 being a cashgrab/flop on the pile if you were unaware of that part. As far as I know that's their most recent community oriented fuck up following overwatch 2 drama.

Nothing.

Oh my god, you can't just ask people why they're red.

I dunno. He came packaged with the meme at the meme store.

Gordon Ramsay during his first day on the job

They are going anywhere because they have a monopoly. This is why the Invisible Hand of the free market doesn't do anything except for flip us off.

Except... its not. Basically nothing changed for InBev. That lip-service marketing thing only generated extraordinairlly loud conservative screeching from 1% of their customer base, that ultimately amounted to a small downward jump in their stock price that hasn't moved since.

Doesn't count when compared to the likes of Unity who have quite literally alienated every single user of their product.

Budweiser has always been a crappy water-beer. That is kind of its selling point.

Lol. No. Y'all just got taken for fools.

Budweiser?