Hum, I already have a phone with Slack / Email on. And it's only switched on during work hours. No messaging outside of that window. Why would that be different?

Ploum is one of the people getting me into blogging 12 or so years ago. I'm so glad to see it popup again here, it's like a big piece of nostalgia. And the piece is current. Thanks Ploum!

I never come to complain about websites, but clicking on this thing made my chrome freeze for a whole second on my MBP. What has Google become xD

TY for the article. You made me look into my server, and also found some strange activity on my docker containers. Good call!

Better, but the very first link I'm given is "Coursera to Combine with Udemy to Empower the Global Workforce with Skills for the AI Era" ^^

Those acquisition numbers will just keep becoming larger and larger until one day, when I'm old enough, someone will just acquire the only other player left in the field and Earth will be one single megacorporation.

AOL-Time-Warner-Pepsico-Viacom-Halliburton-Skynet-Toyota-Trader-Joe's but I guess it's AOL-Time-Netflix-Pepsico-Viacom-Halliburton-Skynet-Toyota-Trader-Joe's now.

Can't wait to hear how it's "good, actually" while I'm shoved into the PepsiCo-Monsanto-ExxonMobil-Fox-Unilever-Northrop mulcher.

Between this, the ads on paid plans, and the fragmentation of catalogues, we've come full circle.

excerpt 33 of why those platforms will end up dying, and everyone will go back to the old ways. Greed is such a powerful enshittification factor

So Cable TV died decades ago when they first put ads onto the service that was sold on not having any ads, right?

Enshittification is done because it is so reliable. Customers just keep buying, doesn't really seem to matter how poorly you treat them.

Shrinkflation has gone on for decades and there's nothing stopping it from continuing because what are you going to do, not buy 90% of products in the grocery store? Good luck.

The problem is that businesses reach a sort of escape velocity where you can abuse your customer and they either do not react to it or have no other choice. The entire economy has worked to ensure that every consumer experiences trained helplessness when it comes to consuming, because that's more profitable.

Just give it time

And worse, when you search they KNOW what you want to watch and will show you EVERYTHING they have that is NOT what you want. Infuriating, I reverted back to the old ways a year back and haven't regretted it.

Same with Spotify, who has a solid catalog that I was happy to pay for. Now I pay double, for podcasts, shows, and now even freaking videos that I have never wanted or asked for and have no choice to not take.

And now they also the audacity to show me ads on PAID PLANS.

They don't deserve our money, customer focus is long gone.

I am thinking of cancelling my Spotify Premium subscription because they introduce extra paid channels on top on paid Premium subscription.

Really? Darn, that is such BS. I was already looking out to be fair, only reason I'm still there is because of my family plan and older parents who will struggle to switch.

That being said, I don't mind additional plans to be fair. Let me pay for what I use, not what you force down my throat. What I mind is the constant enshittification.