#adversarialinteroperability — Public Fediverse posts

Pluralistic: End of the line for video essays (07 Feb 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/07/aimsters-revenge/

Pluralistic: End of the line for video essays (07 Feb 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/07/aimsters-revenge/

Pluralistic: End of the line for video essays (07 Feb 2026)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/07/aimsters-revenge/

Pluralistic: End of the line for video essays (07 Feb 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/07/aimsters-revenge/

Pluralistic: Threads' margin is the Eurostack's opportunity (30 Jan 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/30/zucksauce/

Pluralistic: Threads' margin is the Eurostack's opportunity (30 Jan 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/30/zucksauce/

Pluralistic: Threads' margin is the Eurostack's opportunity (30 Jan 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/30/zucksauce/

Pluralistic: Threads' margin is the Eurostack's opportunity (30 Jan 2026)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/30/zucksauce/

Pluralistic: Threads' margin is the Eurostack's opportunity (30 Jan 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/30/zucksauce/

Pluralistic: It's not normal (14 Jan 2026)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/14/sole-and-despotic/

Sempre per cominciare bene l'anno vale la pena di ascoltare la conferenza di Cory Doctorow "A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet": https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition
tenuta ad Amburgo il 28 dicembre 2025.
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Pluralistic: The mad king's digital killswitch (20 Oct 2025)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/post-american-internet/

Pluralistic: The mad king's digital killswitch (20 Oct 2025)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/post-american-internet/

Pluralistic: Microsoft, Tear Down That Wall! (15 Oct 2025)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/15/freedom-of-movement/

Pluralistic: Microsoft, Tear Down That Wall! (15 Oct 2025)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/15/freedom-of-movement/

One of my favorite examples of #AdversarialInteroperability (as championed by @pluralistic and others): a site pop complains about me using an ad blocker, I put the site into the browser’s Reader Mode, and get around the annoying modal popup.

I didn't realize this until just this morning, but #AdversarialInteroperability and #CounterAntiDisintermediation are related. @tomjennings.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy @dmytri.to . #FOSS is double-edge, but I am 💯 on standards and portable runtimes (HTML, CSS, JS, #Deno). www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

'IBM PC Compatible': How Adver...

I'm very impressed with #Murena /e/ OS's updates to Advanced Privacy in /e/ OS 3.0.

Just now, I got a notification about "a new spy in town". An app I installed since the /e/ OS upgrade has made it into the new Advanced Privacy weekly report.

This is really helpful feedback, highlighting ubiquitous tracking.

I minimise my use of apps that are not #FOSS, and rely on /e/ OS to block all known trackers (which it does by default). Often the corresponding website will do as good a job, and Advanced Blocking appears to work for web-based trackers too.

#SurveillanceEconomy #AdversarialInteroperability #InfoSec #Android

For someone who has been an active witness of the early days of the internet, it's pretty surprising to see this person be unenthusiastic about adversarial interop, which is one of the reasons why #Gopher became a huge thing (and also one of the unintentional weapons the web used to ironically kill it), why we have an #openweb today and why it persists despite efforts by the big players to extinguish it. ​:seija_coffee:​

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/02/gopher-when-adversarial-interoperability-burrowed-under-gatekeepers-fortresses
https://boingboing.net/2019/10/02/plug-and-play.html

#AdversarialInteroperability

RE: https://mastodon.social/users/jwz/statuses/113654149217156768

@matthew_d_green

and now #meta is trying to run into the #fediverse with #threads, and do to #mastodon what they did to #myspace in 2010. with the same tactics:

1. a public excited friendly face of #interop

2. drain of users

3. when the competitor is a dried husk, turn around and fanatically prevent any interop with #facebook on any level whatsoever

people need to understand what meta is

and have no illusions about what they have done, and what they will do

#adversarialinteroperability

when it comes to #threads and the #fediverse, people need to understand what is called #adversarialinteroperability

there are stories about how #apple beat #microsoft with the tactic, but it might be more useful on this topic to talk about how #meta killed #myspace with #facebook #interop. interop whose sole purpose, behind the excited "we're working together!" public facade, was to simply drain myspace of users faster:

https://phys.org/news/2010-11-myspace-deepens-ties-rival-facebook.html

#AdversarialInteroperability is one of the most reliable ways to protect users from predatory corporations: it's when someone reverse-engineers a product to reconfigure or mod it (interoperability) in ways its users like, but which its manufacturer objects to (adversarial):

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interoperability

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/07/blue-bubbles-for-all/#never-underestimate-the-determination-of-a-kid-who-is-time-rich-and-cash-poor

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@mostaurelius @blackmastodon
My experience is that bookshop(.)org is receptive to kind, polite feedback if you think the steps above could use improvement. They'll do bookshop outreach if you ask them to, in case you know of an unlisted Black-owned store.

They use browser cookies and affiliate URLs (think now defunct smile.amazon.com; I'm sure that was their model). Human frailty means you will eventually forget to check. Private browsing, clear cookies, switch device or browser, "*boop* what preferred bookstore?" 😖
I pointed this out via a decent email dialog with #BookshopDotOrg over 12 months ago. The fact that it still works in this deeply suboptimal way is intentional, if only intentional neglect.

Bookshop.org and last.fm are absolutely part of the coalition in my mind. Both are fantastic candidates for #AdversarialInteroperability — like maybe a #Bookwyrm plugin or #Firefox browser extension — to smooth over the rough edges until they do the work on their end.

#Books #Bookshops #ChooseBookshops

#Musician and #VideoEssay -ist Benn Jordan has named some of his videos in such a way that yt-dlp totally horks on them, because it fails to escape characters that are significant to the OS in terms of filenames AND (I suspect) might be exeucting sub-shells in the background and commands are failing due to special shell characters like ampersand (&) being unescaped.

And if true that this is intentional, I'm totally here for it. And if it's a happy accident that shows me a simple place I can contribute a bugfix / patch to the yt-dlp project, I'm totally here for that too.

ALSO, an excellent video, with an interesting digression about a survey. So much to take in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEO0NVPyED4

#YouTube #AdversarialInteroperability
#BennJordan #Music
#Humming

"- motivated reasoning ripples through all of Silicon Valley's top brass, producing what Anil Dash calls "VC QAnon," the collection of conspiratorial, debunked and absurd beliefs embraced by powerful people who hold the digital lives of billions of us in their quivering grasp..."

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/02/self-incrimination/#wei-bai-bai

#tech #business #CoryDoctorow #privacy #DRM #AdversarialInteroperability #CompetitiveCompatibility #ComCom @pluralistic

Following this further, I guess #dataportability is a qtn of what electronic signals are collected by platforms from users and datafied for corporate purposes. If Tiktok collects your key strokes - even outside of direct use of the app itself? - is that actually yr data which in theory could be ported by you to another destination, or would you likely be told this is not covered? Wonder what @pluralistic has to say since it matters for #adversarialinteroperability @DTinitiative @mmasnick

Is it just me thinking Twitter is turning off their third-party API just to stop tools like debirdify and movetodon helping people get out of the walled garden? #Twitter #Mastodon #AdversarialInteroperability