#predatorycapitalism — Public Fediverse posts

As #Invidious and piped.video are not to be used by third parties (for good and understandable reasons) and for those who can't or don't want to self-host, is there still a #privacy-preserving non-#CORS #YouTube proxy REST API out there somewhere?

#FollowerPower #privacyMatters #MyPrivacyisNoneOfYourBusiness #SurveillanceCapitalism #dataCapitalism #platformCapitalism #digitalFeudalism #GDPR #predatoryCapitalism #privacyPreserving #privacyFriendly #privacyRespecting #digitalSelfDefense

Okay, maybe, we haven't been clear enough on this:

People who respect #Zuckerberg, #Musk, and #Bezos more than you, don't remove tracking parameters from URLs, they send you.

#MarkZuckerberg #ElonMusk #JeffBezos #Amazon #Facebook #privacy #privacyMatters #MyPrivacyisNoneOfYourBusiness #GDPR #SurveillanceCapitalism #dataCapitalism #CorporateGreed #digitalFeudalism #platformCapitalism #predatoryCapitalism

One mistake, #Microsoft made by buying #GitHub, is that developers are harder to lie to

#amCoding #amProgramming #softwareDevelopment #softwareEngineering #GitHubCopilot #enshittification #ensh11n #dataCapitalism #CorporateGreed #digitalFeudalism #platformCapitalism #predatoryCapitalism

Wait until I tell *my* lawyers about *your* cookies

#privacy #privacyMatters #MyPrivacyisNoneOfYourBusiness #GDPR #SurveillanceCapitalism #dataCapitalism #CorporateGreed #digitalFeudalism #platformCapitalism #predatoryCapitalism

"#Gesundheitskarte: Diese Funktion kann Ihr Leben retten – aber nur, wenn wir davon auch profitieren"

#PayOrOkay #PayOrConsent #GDPR #DSGVO #privacy #privacyMatters #MyPrivacyisNoneOfYourBusiness #CorporateGreed #surveillanceCapitalism #digitalFeudalism #platformCapitalism #predatoryCapitalism #dataCapitalism #BerlinerMorgenpost #MorgenpostPlus

Why specifically #TikTok is a problem?

– Because it's a Chinese app (#racism) and people like to suppress the fact how problematic big American tech companies are (#corpocracy)
– Because right-wing propaganda works and middle and left-wing politicians don't want to admit that they just didn't try to be equally present there

#Corporatocracy #platformCapitalism #predatoryCapitalism #chokepointCapitalism #corporateGreed #dataCapitalism #privacy #privacyMatters #MyPrivacyisNoneofYourBusiness

How long until this next #enshittification "feature":

Premium users can see your cam in the meeting software, non-premium users can't—BUT: You can't either and you can't deactivate your cam.

#ensh11n #platformCapitalism #predatoryCapitalism #chokepointCapitalism #corporateGreed #dataCapitalism

One of the greatest failings of the early #economic #philosophers, was their failure to foresee the impact of de-personalizing #markets.

Back in Smith's time there was an assumption of #honesty on the part of the seller. Markets were small enough that dishonesty would be punished by #buyers not buying the dishonest #sellers #goods.

#Trust is the bedrock of thriving markets. Which is why countries with rigid rules of law and enforcement do better than countries without. You can trust that if you get burned -- there's a #remedy.

But as markets expanded, so did de-personalization. See the "traveling salesman" selling #SnakeOil for example. Burn a bunch of people -- then move on to the next set of dupes.

Add then, the advent of marketing, or as I like to call it, #CapitalistPropaganda. In short, the practice of increasing demand by selling lies -- #BuyerBeware.

Add to that, legal precedent interpreting lies as free speech -- buyer beware.

Add then, #monopoly power, and it's impossible not to see where this is headed.

Today, we have markets of *distrust* because everyone is peddling legal lies.

Give it a name: #PredatoryCapitalism? #CrisisCapitalism? #Conitalism?

It's all the logical end result of rewarding those with the most capital to compete without rules governing the sale of #lies.
#uspol

It should be mandatory to display the revenue of tracking and selling personal identifiable data as the cost of a free plan.

#privacy #privacyMatters #platformCapitalism #predatoryCapitalism #chokepointCapitalism #corporateGreed #dataCapitalism