Enshitification is a very, very real thing. GitLab did something similar with raising pricing by 5x a few years back.

Even the attempted Trump assassination, which generated considerable tin-hat response, is now almost completely forgotten; certainly, nobody’s talking about it in mainstream forums.

Well yeah, that’s how attempted assassinations work. People don’t remember the ones that don’t work, they remember the ones that do. If it did succeed then it would be all anyone would talk about. The outcome is what matters in these situations, and greatly changes when and how people talk about it. That’s just how these things go.

I’m glad someone else is acknowledging that AI can be an amazing tool. Every time I see AI mentioned on lemmy, people say that it’s entirely useless and they don’t understand why it exists or why anyone talks about it at all. I mention I use ChatGPT daily for my programming job, it’s helpful like having an intern do work for me, etc, and I just get people disagreeing with me all day long lol

Oh, I wasn’t aware of that, I thought the user-hostile restrictions were inherent to Manifest v3 and they were unavoidable.

Okay, maybe just maybe Firefox squeaks by unharmed then.

edit: I literally just had someone else tell me just now that “It’s not something that can be worked around. It’s specifically a design feature of manifest v3 to restrict these types of things.”

So which is it? I’m kind of getting mixed signals here.

edit 2: Oh, it sounds like Google has additional arbitrary restrictions on content blocking functionality, beyond what Manifest V3 itself has.

Eventually Firefox will switch to V3 anyway so it’s kind of just delaying the inevitable.

It sucks that this is the future of the Internet.

Makes me glad I work for a company 5 hours away from where I live, my contract doesn’t state I have to work in the office, and I was hired on as a remote employee so if they do try RTO at my company which it seems like they won’t, it would be a constructive dismissal and I can just collect Employment Insurance.

Forcing employees back into the office is so dumb but I’m glad some companies seem to be holding strong with remote work. Having younger, more reasonable leadership seems to help with this.