"Netflix Kills Casting from Phones"
Netflix continues to make its service worse for users, while raising prices.
Thoughts on Enshittification
"How Silicon Valley Enshittified the Internet"
This is a good, if challenging, episode of _Decoder_.
"Threads Reaches 150 Million Daily Users and is Ramping up Ads"
Of course they are! Yet again, make something good, get the users, then extract.
Update to "GM to Remove CarPlay From All Future Vehicles, Including Gas Cars"
It's a false premise that GM must offer either its "deeply integrated experience" OR CarPlay. GM doesn't want to offer CarPlay next to their own experience, not because they can't, but because they know that people want the apps that are on their phones, not GM's.
"Gurman Reports That Apple is Preparing to Sell Ads in Maps Starting in 2026"
Ads like these are product cancer. Apple made its success by offering the best experience for people who paid the premium for its offerings. This is a terrible direction.
Ads Litter The Path To Enshittification For Netflix
PSA to Netflix users: Prepare to be the slowly boiled frog.
"Can AI Avoid the Enshittification Trap?"
You just _know_ Doctorow is right: we'll be getting sold stuff by AI with little visibility in no time. It's hard to see what the incentive structures are, and I have no doubt that moral clarity alone is not enough to deter the leaders of those companies from tapping that keg.
Commercials during football are the harbinger of ads on all Netflix content
The commercials during Netflix’s football broadcasts are a slippery slope that leads to ads at all levels of the service. Mark my words: accept ads here, and we’ll all be paying top dollar as well as watching ads in no time.