Topic: THE FUTURE IS HERE
+Anonymous A — 1 day ago #68,538
> removal of YouTube's dislike button> YouTube testing “three strikes” rule to block users with ad blockers
> Google's cache viewer removed, nuking Internet history
> Chrome's Manifest V3
> HP and Epson printer firmware updates that brick third-party ink cartridges
> Reddit's Pushshift API change rendering third-party undelete tools like Reveddit dysfunctional
> Microsoft account required with an Internet connection just to use Windows 11 on start up (no command prompt workaround)
> Windows 11 dramatically increased the barrier to entry with minimum hardware requirements (compared to 10 and 8) while RAM prices have gone up due to AI
> Microsoft Recall periodically taking screenshots making it easier to spy on you
> mandatory ID verification on social media platforms and operating systems
> restrictions on Android app sideloading (and Google Play Protect's automatic removal of installed apps that are no longer found on their store)
> “always online” DRM for modern single-player games
> Insteon and Harmony Link abruptly ceased all sales and service operations and shut off their cloud
> Nintendo's eShop shut down
> global CrowdStrike and Cloudflare outages
> Spotify's lawsuit against Anna's Archive
> Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act in 2011 with The Pirate Bay
> UK's Ofcom regulations on free speech online
> Flash's End-of-Life (EOL) and Adobe wanting to discontinue Adobe Animate in favor of AI
> Microsoft issued a DMCA takedown against an indie sandbox game Allumeria with AI
> walled-gardens, rate-limiting, vendor-lockins, encrypted proprietary file formats, subscription-only SaaS, bot verification CAPTCHAs, anti-VPN, AI slop, non-revocable licenses, gig jobs, quantity over quality, forced automatic updates with no rollback or user consent, self-censoring (e.g. “unalive”), IoT Smart devices spying on you, remote kill-switches in firmware, microtransactions, automated takedowns, biometric data harvesting
But at least there aren't any fatal flying car crashes, yet...
·Anonymous A (OP) — 1 day ago, 7 minutes later[T] [B] #679,297
Oh, have you also realized that most websites nowadays require you to have a Google, TikTok, Twitter or Discord account beforehand if you'd like to register a new account, instead of letting you choose an email provider of your liking? Linked accounts is a cancer of modern web.
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+Anonymous B — 1 day ago, 1 hour later, 2 hours after the original post[T] [B] #679,298
If they really wanted to take down 'bad guys,' the billions $$$ they've spent could have gone to tougher financial crimes enforcement and detection rather than torquing down the screws on us all. It's pretty obvious they don't actually care about crime or 'saving the children,' this is all very much for us and on purpose.
+FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI — 23 hours ago, 2 hours later, 4 hours after the original post[T] [B] #679,299
vote with your wallet+Anonymous D — 8 hours ago, 15 hours later, 19 hours after the original post[T] [B] #679,309
> Flash's End-of-Life (EOL)
"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."
"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."