Have you ever walked into a supermarket, pharmacy, or department store looking to buy a specific item, only to find the layout confusing? Perhaps you ended up aimlessly strolling around, purchasing other items? This is deliberate, and known as the Gruen Transfer. The 'Transfer' part is the moment that you, as a consumer surrounded by a deliberately confusing layout, lose track of your original intentions.
We've all experienced it, and now it's starting to consume the internet. #Internet #GruenTransfer #DarkWeb #WWW #Enshitification

https://sebs.website/blog/the%20gruen-transfer-is-consuming-the-internet

"New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow returns to the world of Red Team Blues to bring us the origin story of Martin Hench and the most powerful new tool for crime ever invented: the personal computer.

The year is 1986. The city is San Francisco. Here, Martin Hench will invent the forensic accountant — what a bounty hunter is to people, he is to money — but for now he’s an MIT dropout odd-jobbing his way around a city still reeling from the invention of a revolutionary new technology that will change everything about crime forever, one we now take completely for granted.

'Picks And Shovels' is a high-tech crime thriller about the “weird era of PCs” in the early 1980s, when Reaganomics, the tech industry, multilevel marketing, and the AIDS crisis all converged in San Francisco. "—Jacobin

"Picks And Shovels" by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic, with Yanis Varoufakis @VaroufakisDE & David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com >

https://www.youtube.com/live/xkIDep7Z4LM?feature=shared

Maybe the secret to escaping #enshitification is to make things that are financially worthless.

#Spotif goes #enshitification -- definitely final sign to switch to some (other European) alternative. Remember, Spotify hosts podcasts from #MAGA type people like #JoeRogan.
#unplugtrump

Now I have to get on a help line to try to track down a small but meaningful missing sum sent by a family member whose UK bank promised 'next day' service some weeks ago.

Payment was share of a small town memorial plaque for parents now gone. Can't do anything more than one standard deviation from the masses these days without these c___ f_____ things up and making torture of it.

Dreading it & lining up side projects so the morning won't be a complete waste.

One of the biggest wins of the giant corporate 'persons' currently aligning to wreck the planet is having trained us not to think of them as 'special interests'.

It’s a forest/trees kinda thing & they love it.

Social engineering (what it is to them - stochastically guiding consumer decision-making via far more sly & powerful tools than blunt instrument advertising) we now happily buy for 'free' as 'social networking'.

What's not to love?

omfg, #enshitification is never going to end, is it? Today when trying to film my next YT vid, I have found out by a huge fucking surprise that the #CameraConnect app by #Canon, now requires an account to be able to use it, breaking the ability for me to adjust focus, and all the other shenanigans. Basically this camera is unusable for filming yourself. Not that it was perfect before either, but at least it worked up until now.

Great job breaking perfectly fine and functioning things, without a warning and the option to downgrade!

Keep on breaking them, we're rich here, I can keep on spending about $1000 on a camera each year. /s

Ich so "Hey Amazon, ich hätte gerne dasda..."

Amazon so: "Bestätige mal deine IBAN!"

Ich so: "Ok, hier meine IBAN!"

Amazon so: "Die stimmt nicht!"

Ich so: "Doch!"

Amazon so: "Die stimmt nicht!"

Ich so: "Dann bestell ich halt woanders..."

#LiebesTagebuch #Enshitification

@openculture ist einer jener Accounts, die mich immer wieder überraschen und interessieren. Schön, dass es so etwas noch gibt, in guter Qualität und bar jeder #paywall‌. Paywalls überschwemmen das Internet und haben die Fundgrube an interessanten Dingen längst in ein #Paynet und #Neppnet verwandelt.

sad to watch Apple's slow march to #enshitification

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/04/10/wayne-ma-the-information-apple-siri-fumble

Dear Yelp
restaurants with outdoor seating, doesn’t include restaurants where you can order takeout and sit on the curb to eat it. Now excuse me while I wade through your list of every restaurant in the city

You mean like every developer and automation geek & widget constantly working to anticipate my every next move down to last keystroke like some ubiquitous office-mate constantly swinging by regardless of time to 'offer a little advice with that'?

What a great I'dea!

It’s things like this that make you question all life and the universe in general: I create events on our new platform, that’s where people are supposed to sign up. I create a dummy event at the old one with a link to the new one as the sole ref in the description. I set the number of participants to only ONE (me, myself) and yet now I have half a dozen of brilliant ignorants on each of the events on the waitlist. Not sure what they are waiting for.

No Google, that is definitely NOT what I meant. #google #enshitification