#anticonsumer — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #anticonsumer, aggregated by home.social.
-
COLLAPSE of Personal Computing | Investigation Into the Destruction of Ownership - Gamers Nexus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyQwAhppWj8
#PC #PCownership #consumer #pricing #AI #postconsumer #personalai #GamersNexus #cartel #tech #economy #CostOfLiving #AntiConsumer #ConsumerProtection
-
COLLAPSE of Personal Computing | Investigation Into the Destruction of Ownership - Gamers Nexus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyQwAhppWj8
#PC #PCownership #consumer #pricing #AI #postconsumer #personalai #GamersNexus #cartel #tech #economy #CostOfLiving #AntiConsumer #ConsumerProtection
-
COLLAPSE of Personal Computing | Investigation Into the Destruction of Ownership - Gamers Nexus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyQwAhppWj8
#PC #PCownership #consumer #pricing #AI #postconsumer #personalai #GamersNexus #cartel #tech #economy #CostOfLiving #AntiConsumer #ConsumerProtection
-
COLLAPSE of Personal Computing | Investigation Into the Destruction of Ownership - Gamers Nexus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyQwAhppWj8
#PC #PCownership #consumer #pricing #AI #postconsumer #personalai #GamersNexus #cartel #tech #economy #CostOfLiving #AntiConsumer #ConsumerProtection
-
COLLAPSE of Personal Computing | Investigation Into the Destruction of Ownership - Gamers Nexus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyQwAhppWj8
#PC #PCownership #consumer #pricing #AI #postconsumer #personalai #GamersNexus #cartel #tech #economy #CostOfLiving #AntiConsumer #ConsumerProtection
-
BMW really sucks now: If a monthly fee for heated seats and fake M-series cars weren’t bad enough, BMW is considering reducing your engine power if you don’t charge your PHEV enough. We truly own nothing. #cars #bmw #anticonsumer #crapitalism https://www.autoblog.com/news/bmw-wants-plug-in-hybrid-owners-punished-for-not-charging-enough
-
I really hate it when companies make you pull out excel in order to know which "package" to buy.
And I hate it even more when you then find out that they ricked it so that you need to buy all of them to get the full set...
(to be fair at ifixit you can also buy the screwdrivers individually, but this just made a good example for what most companies are doing these days)
-
In case you haven't noticed, Big Tech has run out of ideas. It can't innovate. It can't release a fresh product. It peaked a long time ago.
People are experiencing tech weariness because everything is the same, as well as tech wariness because of the evil anti-consumer policies.
AI is not going to save Big Tech. It's nothing more than a soap bubble. 🧼 🫧
#BigTech #AI #AIAct #BanAI #OnlinePrivacy #TechWeary #TechWary #Thursday #AntiConsumer
-
Follow Louis Rossmann's channel for #Anti #Capitalism #AntiConsumer #Anti #DRM #Repair etc!
before they try ban him! ⬇️
https://inv.nadeko.net/channel/UCl2mFZoRqjw_ELax4Yisf6w
+BONUS INFO #Plausible = #Analytics (#Ethical) on Fediverse!
➡️ @plausible https://fosstodon.org/@plausible
#GDPR #Privacy #PrivacyPreserving -
Follow Louis Rossmann's channel for #Anti #Capitalism #AntiConsumer #Anti #DRM #Repair etc!
before they try ban him! ⬇️
https://inv.nadeko.net/channel/UCl2mFZoRqjw_ELax4Yisf6w
+BONUS INFO #Plausible = #Analytics (#Ethical) on Fediverse!
➡️ @plausible https://fosstodon.org/@plausible
#GDPR #Privacy #PrivacyPreserving -
Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move yet
https://www.makeuseof.com/androids-sideloading-limits-are-anti-consumer-move-yet/
#HackerNews #Android #Sideloading #ConsumerRights #TechNews #AndroidUpdates #AntiConsumer
-
Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move yet
https://www.makeuseof.com/androids-sideloading-limits-are-anti-consumer-move-yet/
#HackerNews #Android #Sideloading #ConsumerRights #TechNews #AndroidUpdates #AntiConsumer
-
Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move yet
https://www.makeuseof.com/androids-sideloading-limits-are-anti-consumer-move-yet/
#HackerNews #Android #Sideloading #ConsumerRights #TechNews #AndroidUpdates #AntiConsumer
-
Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move yet
https://www.makeuseof.com/androids-sideloading-limits-are-anti-consumer-move-yet/
#HackerNews #Android #Sideloading #ConsumerRights #TechNews #AndroidUpdates #AntiConsumer
-
Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move yet
https://www.makeuseof.com/androids-sideloading-limits-are-anti-consumer-move-yet/
#HackerNews #Android #Sideloading #ConsumerRights #TechNews #AndroidUpdates #AntiConsumer
-
After 6 years of delays and studio drama, #VampireTheMasquerade – #Bloodlines2 finally arrives 21/10/2025.
The base game (49.99€) includes 4 #clans: #Brujah, #Tremere, #BanuHaqim and #Ventrue. But two of the most iconic, #Toreador + #Lasombra, are locked behind #dayone #DLC Shadows & Silk (18.69€) or bundled in the so-called #PremiumEdition (74.99€). The #DeluxeEdition (58.50€) adds only #cosmetics, no real content.
What should have been a long-awaited comeback feels like another case of predatory #DLC overshadowing the excitement.
#ParadoxInteractive keeps getting worse and worse — the more money they make, the more toxic they become. Their strategies feel #anticonsumer and anti#gamer, prioritizing profit over players.
-
WTF? I don't play any game using #Vanguard anti-cheat, but, this brought to my attention it runs at boot without even running the game now?! WTF?
They don't need to b running kernel level anything let alone at boot without even running their games!
Fuck those companies. I'm not for black-hat hacks, but that should be a green-light for whatever hacks ppl wanna do against them. #antiprivacy #anticonsumer #games
-
MOTHERFUCKERS I JUST WANT SOME DAMN ICE CREAM.
#carrs #anticonsumer #bullshit -
Killed a good thing that everyone but the bad parties are behind
Appeals court voids FTC's 'click to cancel' rule just before it starts
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5390731-appeals-court-voids-ftcs-click-to-cancel-rule-just-before-it-starts/#clicktocancel #clicktocancelrule #ftc #consumerrights #anticonsumer
-
Killed a good thing that everyone but the bad parties are behind
Appeals court voids FTC's 'click to cancel' rule just before it starts
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5390731-appeals-court-voids-ftcs-click-to-cancel-rule-just-before-it-starts/#clicktocancel #clicktocancelrule #ftc #consumerrights #anticonsumer
-
Killed a good thing that everyone but the bad parties are behind
Appeals court voids FTC's 'click to cancel' rule just before it starts
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5390731-appeals-court-voids-ftcs-click-to-cancel-rule-just-before-it-starts/#clicktocancel #clicktocancelrule #ftc #consumerrights #anticonsumer
-
Killed a good thing that everyone but the bad parties are behind
Appeals court voids FTC's 'click to cancel' rule just before it starts
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5390731-appeals-court-voids-ftcs-click-to-cancel-rule-just-before-it-starts/#clicktocancel #clicktocancelrule #ftc #consumerrights #anticonsumer
-
Killed a good thing that everyone but the bad parties are behind
Appeals court voids FTC's 'click to cancel' rule just before it starts
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5390731-appeals-court-voids-ftcs-click-to-cancel-rule-just-before-it-starts/#clicktocancel #clicktocancelrule #ftc #consumerrights #anticonsumer
-
It feels like a key point of the current phase of capitalism is to pass on as much cognitive load on the consumer as possible. Caveat emptor... 🖕
https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/i-hate-wasting-time-on-identifying-ai-slop/
-
"You should just use #Ubuntu because it's the easiest one" - this is propaganda for #Shuttleworth and tells me you haven't tried any other distro - or that you use #Arch.
#LinuxMint is fantastic still, #Fedora is my go to recommendation, but with #uBlue and #Bazzite we see a new era of usability focused #distributions.
Add to that the fact that #snaps are a centralizes repository with no third party vendors, and you've got a #vendorlockin.
Ubuntu is the #anticonsumer distribution as a result.
-
"You should just use #Ubuntu because it's the easiest one" - this is propaganda for #Shuttleworth and tells me you haven't tried any other distro - or that you use #Arch.
#LinuxMint is fantastic still, #Fedora is my go to recommendation, but with #uBlue and #Bazzite we see a new era of usability focused #distributions.
Add to that the fact that #snaps are a centralizes repository with no third party vendors, and you've got a #vendorlockin.
Ubuntu is the #anticonsumer distribution as a result.
-
"You should just use #Ubuntu because it's the easiest one" - this is propaganda for #Shuttleworth and tells me you haven't tried any other distro - or that you use #Arch.
#LinuxMint is fantastic still, #Fedora is my go to recommendation, but with #uBlue and #Bazzite we see a new era of usability focused #distributions.
Add to that the fact that #snaps are a centralizes repository with no third party vendors, and you've got a #vendorlockin.
Ubuntu is the #anticonsumer distribution as a result.
-
"You should just use #Ubuntu because it's the easiest one" - this is propaganda for #Shuttleworth and tells me you haven't tried any other distro - or that you use #Arch.
#LinuxMint is fantastic still, #Fedora is my go to recommendation, but with #uBlue and #Bazzite we see a new era of usability focused #distributions.
Add to that the fact that #snaps are a centralizes repository with no third party vendors, and you've got a #vendorlockin.
Ubuntu is the #anticonsumer distribution as a result.
-
"You should just use #Ubuntu because it's the easiest one" - this is propaganda for #Shuttleworth and tells me you haven't tried any other distro - or that you use #Arch.
#LinuxMint is fantastic still, #Fedora is my go to recommendation, but with #uBlue and #Bazzite we see a new era of usability focused #distributions.
Add to that the fact that #snaps are a centralizes repository with no third party vendors, and you've got a #vendorlockin.
Ubuntu is the #anticonsumer distribution as a result.
-
It’s funny to me that #bigtech companies are competing to show off how smart their various #AI models are, but that fancy tech never somehow trickles down to #customerservice where long wait times, byzantine phone trees, incomplete knowledge base search mazes, and other time wasters are the norm.
RN on hold waiting to chat w/ @Microsoft support for 27 minutes while it helps 43 ppl. Really? #CoPilot can’t take a crack at helping me?
-
When niceguy Jeff is disappointed in you, you know you f'd up. #enshittification #anticonsumer #3dprinting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91kfolYkRNM -
Time to become anti-consumerist
https://blog.taursnd.haus/display/1a041b09-9367-337f-d5da-e20326132312
-
Regulators are panicking about what CHINA companies are doing with data gathering, but have zero interest in regulating the aggressive anti-consumer practices being inflicted by US corporations.
Case in point: stores with digital price tags doing dynamic pricing based on customer data
#data #dataprivacy #privacy #anticonsumer #anticonsumerism #pricegouging #kroger #walmart #databrokers #greedflation
-
This 😢:
“They Don’t Make ’Em Like That Any More: The 3.5mm Headphone Jack Socket”, Kevin Boone (https://kevinboone.me/headphonejack.html).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41425383
#Phones #Headphones #Audio #HeadphoneJack #AntiConsumer #Greed #Apple #Google #Samsung
-
OK What the fuck?
#PayPal has this bullshit when you update your phone number.Do I check the boxes or not? I definitely do not want any contact from those twits.
#baddesign #shittydesign #design #ux #webdesign #anticonsumer
-
The problem with Jason point of view is that is very #anticonsumer.
If the game "I expect" to be online only, dies a month later, then I would expect my money gone? A refund?
I think this is a case of tunnel vision.
At least I think he is right in one point: this petition has to be more specific, otherwise it may have colateral damage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioqSvLqB46Y
#StopKillingGames #JasonHall #JasonThorHall #Videogames #Gaming
-
The problem with Jason point of view is that is very #anticonsumer.
If the game "I expect" to be online only, dies a month later, then I would expect my money gone?
I think this is a case of tunnel vision.
At least I think he is right in one point: this petition has to be more specific, otherwise it may have colateral damage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioqSvLqB46Y
#StopKillingGames #JasonHall #JasonThorHall #Videogames #Gaming
-
The problem with Jason point of view is that is very #anticonsumer.
If the game "I expect" to be online only, dies a month later, then I would expect my money gone?
I think this is a case of tunnel vision.
At least I think he is right in one point: this petition has to be more specific, otherwise it may have colateral damage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioqSvLqB46Y
#StopKillingGames #JasonHall #JasonThorHall #Videogames #Gaming
-
The problem with Jason point of view is that is very #anticonsumer.
If the game "I expect" to be online only, dies a month later, then I would expect my money gone? A refund?
I think this is a case of tunnel vision.
At least I think he is right in one point: this petition has to be more specific, otherwise it may have colateral damage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioqSvLqB46Y
#StopKillingGames #JasonHall #JasonThorHall #Videogames #Gaming
-
The problem with Jason point of view is that is very #anticonsumer.
If the game "I expect" to be online only, dies a month later, then I would expect my money gone? A refund?
I think this is a case of tunnel vision.
At least I think he is right in one point: this petition has to be more specific, otherwise it may have colateral damage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioqSvLqB46Y
#StopKillingGames #JasonHall #JasonThorHall #Videogames #Gaming
-
Personally, I'm totally done with #Windows, and #Microsoft in general. I maintain an account, but do very little with it. Why? Because M$ has gone completely off the rails again and I don’t need any of their apps, services, or grief. The #EU clearly feels the same way, and their continued #antitrust actions show that. #tech #office365 #anticonsumer #bullshit https://slashdot.org/story/24/06/25/149209/eu-charges-microsoft-with-abusive-bundling-of-teams-and-office-breaching-antitrust-rules
-
Samsung Scummy Repair Contract Forces Shops to Destroy YOUR Phone! iFixit Drops Samsung Partnership!
https://somegadgetguy.com/b/45n
Samsung forces repair shops to sign a TERRIBLE contract, that requires technicians to destroy your phone if they find non-Samsung parts in your device! iFixit is dropping their partnership with Samsung.
Why isn’t this bigger news?
#tech #technews #righttorepair #repair #samsung #anticonsumer #gadgets #bbtg #geek #ifixit #shorts #reels #video #news
-
In true Orwellian fashion, Microsoft are calling it the “User Choice Protection Driver.” You can’t make this shit up.
#enshittification #microsoft #anticonsumer #monopoly https://noc.social/@AAKL/112230530692193371
-
Hey neat. Just got a $90 check from the class action settlement against Apple throttling iPhones with software updates.
A phone I bought almost ten years ago.
The system works... Slowly...#apple #lawsuit #classaction #antitrust #anticonsumer #iphone #geek #tech #technology
-
After 22 emails, ChatGPT successfully persuaded Rentalcars.com to issue a refund for a prepaid reservation for a non-existent car. 😅
I’m pretty sure they were using ChatGPT too.
-
I always maintained that #piracy is a natural reaction not only to #greed, but to #poverty. As we progress into more rapacious #DRM practices that punish the #customer more than those finding alternative ways, #regulators who fight piracy, #jailbreaking & #circumvention, & work on related #research, should also work on preventing the ever #empowered #AntiConsumer tendencies. & they should pick up that selectively #lazy pace.
https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/#tyler-james-hill
-
As a #company, if you release a new #version of your #product, and it immediately causes the #price of #used examples of the previous product to jump to 50% more than the #new one, then you know you have #failed the #consumer, utterly.
Yes, #Dymo, I'm looking at you.
#drm #enshittification #e14n #AntiConsumer #hostile #labelwriter #consumables
-
As a #company, if you release a new #version of your #product, and it immediately causes the #price of #used examples of the previous product to jump to 50% more than the #new one, then you know you have #failed the #consumer, utterly.
Yes, #Dymo, I'm looking at you.
#drm #enshittification #e14n #AntiConsumer #hostile #labelwriter #consumables
-
As a #company, if you release a new #version of your #product, and it immediately causes the #price of #used examples of the previous product to jump to 50% more than the #new one, then you know you have #failed the #consumer, utterly.
Yes, #Dymo, I'm looking at you.
#drm #enshittification #e14n #AntiConsumer #hostile #labelwriter #consumables
