Category: Enshittification

My tube. How advertising is killing YouTube

If you’re like me your television viewing habits have coalesced around YouTube. Terrestrial TV for…

We Were So Wrong About the Zombie Apocalypse

okay so hear me out. literally my whole childhood everyone was OBSESSED with zombie apocalypse…

The End of Owning Stuff

Think about your favorite movie. A long time ago, if you wanted to watch it,…

10 years of Linux desktop and I haven’t looked back

The last time I used Windows desktop was when it was Windows Vista. Sometime around…

Why am I seeing this ad?

Again? Why am I seeing this ad? Every every time I turn on the TV…

Google Postmaster Tools killed the only stat I need

Google postmaster tools for anyone unfamiliar with it is a system setup by Google where…

E tu Alexa?

A decade ago, Alexa felt like a glimpse into a Star Trek future. You’d ask…

Bring back the glory Days of the BBS

I don’t know who first said it, and I could look it up (and I…

The MVP “Race to the Bottom”

I’ve noticed that new websites and apps often feel unfinished? Am I the only one?…

Crappy corporate web art all over

In the past 5 years or so I’ve noticed something about the web and corporations…

Alexa has changed and not for the better.

I just asked Alexa what my notification was.. I walked in the door I saw…

My foray into self hosting or Immich vs Google Photos

Over the past year I’ve been using Immich as a replacement for Google Photos. This…

Enshittification of Google Photos

So today I tried to build a python script which would bulk download photos from…