“We value providing our customers with choice, so there is an option to dismiss the notification.”
Thank you daddy Microsoft for still letting me click “no” on your invasive popup ad with a dark pattern to make me change my system settings.
“We value providing our customers with choice, so there is an option to dismiss the notification.”
Thank you daddy Microsoft for still letting me click “no” on your invasive popup ad with a dark pattern to make me change my system settings.
If you read more than the headline, you’d know that you can simply purchase those options instead of subscribing, if you want.
Which makes the entire article pointless. But you’d need to read more than the headline to see that, which is too much to ask.
That’s not what that word…you know what, fuck it. I give up. Enshittification now just means “becoming worse” and I won’t be able to stop that.
“Or you can just purchase any of those features permanently”
This fact, hidden somewhere in the middle, makes the entire article pointless.
It already is, but it isn’t mandatory, yet.
Canada geese are whatever the fuck they want.
Environmentalists don’t like it when you bury too many sharks.
Why does the article specifically mention that she’s black?
If they charged users any amount of money there wouldn’t even be 400000 of them anymore.
The users get a service that costs hundreds of millions to maintain for free.
And no one is forcing them to post valuable content without compensation.
There’s a name for free software with proprietary bits added: Proprietary software
No, they are all available at no cost. Only Firefox is free software.
This raises concerns about using AI in military and diplomatic decision-making.
it’s now fully focused on “our mission beyond iMessage” and building “a universal, multi-network chat app.”
Throw it on the pile with all the others.
This, but unironically.