Holy shit, how bad does it have to be that Facebook doesn't even make the list?!
Or EA. So much for their sense of pride and accomplishment.
No Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Spotify, or apple?
Google seems front and center too after the recent “privacy” updates to chrome (the web browser with 2/3 the global market share).
What did Spotify do to deserve a spot?
Oh boy, a whole lot. I was compiling a list, but it turns out that Spotifys shady business practices has a whole wikipedia page. Not sure if it's included in there but Joe Rogan. Just everything about the Joe Rogan deal. As well as their ties to the military industrial complex. It's less "what have they done?" and more "what haven't they done?"
Destroying artist's livelihoods, for one thing. Shady business practices, for the other.
I guess Facebook is bad for it's... Well general shittiness... But they did invent react which a lot of the good parts of the internet use
And llama. They're making it so that small companies can compete in the AI game
All of "triple AAA" Gaming, i.e.: Activision-Blizzard, Ubisoft, Microsoft (classic), ...
Every time I see Activision-Blizzard mentioned I feel morally obligated to remind/inform people that when Activision-Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick gave himself a $40 million bonus, there were employees who could not afford the food at the company cafeteria.
Also, when I Googled "blizzard employees" to find that article, one search suggestion was "breast milk". If you don't feel like you hate the company enough already, look into that.
Thank you. I already follow Stephanie Sterling's work. ;)
Could all be summed up in the last one: capitalism
Well the camera one doesnt technically have to be capitalism.
None of them have to.
You're right, not necessarily
Greed. Taking more than equilibrium. People focus on the apparatus but not the source. We don't need to change the system we need to change human nature.
Oh shut up. If human nature is based on greed because you see people taking more than they need, then it's equally if not more based on mutual aid, since you have doubtlessly also seen people sacrifice their own desires and needs for the love of others. Why is one human nature, but not the other?
Where is greed in open source? Where is greed in volunteer work?
Oracle, IIRC they are/were the biggest data gatherer.
I'm curious, why is that?
Trackers, but why exactly I don't know
now im scared to use anything because i know im gonna becom edependent on it and then its gonna go to shit
The key is focus your time and effort on the ones that are really important to you, and be able to adapt to changes. This way you can make the switch to a less abusive product / platform / tool / whatever it is more easily when it inevitably goes to shit.
This is the user-side responsibility of interoperability.
The Internet is way older than the majority of these things, but I still appreciate the spirit of your post.
You're forgetting the guy with the second biggest mug in the world.
The advertising-thing always baffles me. Are you willing to pay for each and every service you just use completely for free? If not, you shouldn't see advertising as a "scourge".
I don't have much of an issue with advertising in itself
However
Online advertising nowadays is extremely obnoxious and annoying, and serves to track you, too. Add the fact that ads are free real estate for malicious actors to do whatever, and I think you can agree that they are a bigger problem than they should be.
I genuinely wouldn't mind ads if they were unobtrusive and not tracking me, but that's not the reality.
Don't forget about malvertising, that's probably a more imminent danger. If Google and other ad companies don't give enough of a shit about user to actually filter out malware ads, why should I give enough of a shit about their revenue to not use uBO?
Yes
Post in the comments additions to my list; I wanted to add more but I missed some.
- Windows: Bad. Linux: Good.
- Google Chrome: Bad. Firefox: Good.
- America: Bad..... America: Bad.
America: Bad. Europe: Good.
Bring back the old Soviet Internet, before it was privatised!
The amount of times capitalism gets dragged into a thread that has nothing to do with economics or politics is, quite frankly, astounding.
edit: I get it, you are all replying the same thing. Point taken, capitalism has its hands in everything. My point: we don't have to circlejerk about it every 3 seconds. I would rather not delete this comment, but why isn't there a block notifications button on Lemmy?
LOL, you think the enshittification of the Internet has nothing to do with economics or politics?! I'm almost morbidly curious about what exactly you think it does have to do with, then!
I'll forgive you for strawmanning my position because I haven't fully articulated it. Of course capitalism is connected to every area of our everyday lives.
But, unpopular opinion incoming, people go out of their way to bring up capitalism in every thread and it gets old fast. You could have a thread on !AskLemmy about how hard it is to be a dog-walker, and there will be comments saying how OP wouldn't need to be a dog walker if it weren't for capitalism! Whether you think that's true or not is beside the point; this corner of the internet is always beating the dead horse called "capitalism bad".
Whenever something or someone appears on the internet they have a grace period where small mistakes are forgotten and bigger ones are forgiven, but eventually the time runs out and everybody will hate you.
Unity does not qualify as "internet thing"
Also if they're considered on the level as all these other companies there needs to be dozens more at that table before them.
2023 still not done, plenty of room for more shit companies and situations to unfold!
Pretty much any mainstream social media imo
Wouldn't x be coverd meca7se musk is there. Almost like it's just milk twice
They are both scourges without each other
They put as much effort into their meme as you did into editing ;)
Holy shit. I don't recall having any speed this morning. I can't even figure out what that mess was supposed to be
Got so many ad blockers about the only time I see ads is when I accidentally look at a billboard
Ah yes, the paypal mafia. Most of it explains that pic. Techno feudalists trying to take over capitalism with capitalism 2.0: even thinking a thought will be charged edition
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