Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish (infosec.pub)
Youtube let the other shoe drop in their end-stage enshittification this week. Last month, they required you to turn on Youtube History to view the feed of youtube videos recommendations. That seems reasonable, so I did it. But I delete my history every 1 week instead of every 3 months. So they don’t get much from my choices....
Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month (9to5google.com)
Windows 12 May Require a Subscription (www.pcmag.com)
[A]n INI configuration file in the Windows Canary channel, discovered by German website Deskmodder, includes references to a “Subscription Edition,” “Subscription Type,” and a “subscription status.”
Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. (lemmy.world)
We are contacting you regarding a past Prime Video purchase(s). The below content is no longer playable on Prime Video....
Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible (stackdiary.com)
Coming to you soon... (lemmy.world)
Microsoft Finally Realizes Nobody Wants Its Windows 11 Preinstalled Bloatware (www.pcmag.com)
YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers (www.androidauthority.com)
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/2883134 (!android)
The most popular Chinese keyboard app which is used by more than 450 million monthly users sends every key typed to Tencent in China. (citizenlab.ca)
Vulnerabilities in Sogou Keyboard encryption expose keypresses to network eavesdropping.
Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple (www.theverge.com)
Samsung has released a new video in support of Google’s #GetTheMessage campaign which calls for Apple to adopt RCS or “Rich Communication Services,” the cross-platform protocol pitched as a successor to SMS that adopts many of the features found in modern messaging apps… like Apple’s own iMessage.
Streaming TV costs now higher than cable, as 'crash' finally hits (9to5mac.com)
It’s time for Americans to embrace small cars (arstechnica.com)
Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia (www.rollingstone.com)
Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors (futurism.com)
Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down (i.imgur.com)
very.bignutty.xyz/notes/9hf13it1ced3b2za
Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11 (www.theregister.com)
Twitter/X removing the block feature (lemm.ee)
Phones should have FM radio again (www.spacebar.news)
Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google (www.theverge.com)
Another 62 ‘Girls Do Porn’ Victims Sue Pornhub for $600 Million (www.404media.co)
A lawsuit filed by more victims of the sex trafficking operation claims that Pornhub’s moderation staff ignored reports of their abuse videos....
I hate how everything requires you to download a shitty proprietary data harvesting app nowadays when everything can be done just fine without an app.
I have recently started university and am required to use an app that has three Facebook trackers, one of them being a Facebook location tracker according to Exodus App Privacy, for the dining plan, when it would literally work perfectly fine using your student ID and ordering to a real cashier, LIKE HOW IT HAS BEEN DONE FOR...
Twitter/X new ID Verification - First Look (lemmy.world)
Thanks to Popcrave twitter.com/popcrave/status/1691852136236327316?s…...