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cmrn ,

The majority of the ads I get on Twitter now are deepfaked Elon shilling coins — I don’t know how any advertiser (or user) could have any faith in that platform anymore.

cmrn ,

IMO it’s one thing if you posted things publicly on the internet and it’s getting scraped, in the same way a human would find it.

But it’s disgusting when all these companies retroactively update their TOS, or force you into zero privacy to continue using their service.

cmrn ,

Please do. Keep making headlines for self-destruction.

cmrn ,

I feel like we’re at the age of the internet where a strong minority (see: Lemmy users) care deeply about all the ugly exploitative and anti-consumer nature of big tech, but the vast majority of the population just… doesn’t care… and shrugs off (and enables) the continual downward spiral.

cmrn ,

The thing that makes me most sad is that the old Twitter is genuinely why I have the career and connections I do today. Now I can’t even stand opening the site.

cmrn ,

They really said “because we can’t get crime under control, you can’t have health measures”

Arizona accuses Amazon of being a monopoly and deceiving consumers with “dark patterns” ( www.theverge.com )

Arizona's Attorney General, Kris Mayes, filed two lawsuits against Amazon on Wednesday for allegedly engaging in deceptive business practices and maintaining monopoly status. The first lawsuit accuses the company of using dark patterns to keep users from canceling their Amazon Prime subscriptions, violating Arizona's Consumer...

cmrn ,

I didn’t read a single thing beyond the title but… yeah that checks out

Squarespace to Go Private in $6.9B All-Cash Transaction with Permira ( investors.squarespace.com )

Stockholders will receive $44.00 per share in cash, which represents a premium of 29% over the 90-day volume weighted average trading price of $34.09 Squarespace, Inc. (NYSE: SQSP ), the design-driven platform helping entrepreneurs build brands and businesses online, today announced that it has entered into a definitive...

cmrn ,

I want no part to do with them after they got all the Google domains—they’re not a company I would have willingly supported before, so I’m not about to now that I’ve been forced into it.

cmrn ,

I love how the words they chose to bold were VOTING and BIDEN for their message.

cmrn ,

Oh you thought that was for damage prevention? No it’s actually to make sure it gets wet. I heard the Cybertruck’s trunk department QC’d it.

cmrn ,

I thought this meant on top of Premium and I was about to be pissed.

But honestly, Spotify is one of the only companies where I don’t feel like my experience has gotten noticeably worse over my time using it.

cmrn ,

I just read the best book, you should check it out. Credit to the author of it.

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