Topic: THE FUTURE IS HERE
+Anonymous A — 1 minute 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...
