DEF CON 31 - An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Enshittification
DEF CON 31 - An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Enshittification
As someone who’s been in the industry in San Francisco since the mid-’90s, he speaks to my lived experience.
Tech workers dreamed of working for a big company for a few years before striking out on their own to start their own business that put that big company out of business. Then that dream shrank to working for a tech giant for a few years, quitting, and doing a fake startup to get aquihired back by your own boss and the world's most inefficient way to get a raise. And then it shrank even further to working for a tech giant for your whole life but there'd be free kombucha in the cafeteria and you get massages on Wednesdays. And now that dream is over, and all that's left is work for a tech guy until they fire your ass, like those 12,000 Googlers who got fired six months after a stock buyback that would have paid their salaries for the next 27 years.
Fantastic talk. Unfortunately, the last question was spot on - Cory's ideas require political action.
But that political process is corrupted by the very companies we need action against.
"self regulating bodies"
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Good point. Why isn't this on peertube?
@krey @z3n0x I'm watching it now but through a front-end with no ads 🤷
"Ad blockers violate YouTube's Terms of Service. It looks like you may be using an ad blocker. Video playback is blocked unless YouTube is allowlisted or the ad blocker is disabled."
[Copies link. Pastes link into FreeTube. Watches video.]
I mean, it proves his point.
There was a piped link posted of this earlier, but it was unwatchable because their servers couldn’t handle the load
These are pie in the sky plans. I thought he was going to come up with a technical solution.
Political action can happen, and probably needs to happen, so I am glad there are at least some still pushing for it. It's up to the rest of us to make it a technical reality though.
let's see what the Digital Markets Act will accomplish. it's a slow process for sure ...
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/watch?v=rimtaSgGz_4
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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The topic is very interesting to me but the video is almost an hour long with no slides. Does anybody have a transcript or outline of the talk?
I'm not trying to troll or be sarcastic. I'd really appreciate the option to skim it without having to watch the full video. Thanks a lot!
this talk is basically a short version of Cory's new book. To get a gist of it, check out reviews like: https://apnews.com/article/internet-con-doctorow-book-review-9a5645c075fa495f701481d50f3917c8
Thanks a lot!
You could say “encrudification” if you’re worried about typing bad words on the internet.
you know what, I didn't even notice (just copied from video). Title edited.
People having to self censor on the internet to appease advertisers is just another part of enshittification
The issue is corruption. Plans like this may succeed in EU but it's too late for US. With the supreme court being filled with millionaires' puppets, religious fanatics and rapists for the next 20 years no meaningful change will happen.