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Unshittification: 3 tech companies that recently made my life… better

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨cm0002@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/unshittification-3-tech-companies-that-recently-made-my-life-better/

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  • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    A company that stops using dial home DRM because it’s costing them too much money should hardly be lauded.

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  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If you haven’t experienced enshitification with a company, you just haven’t quite waited long enough.

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    • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah, the problem with enshittification is not that it is something that some companies do but that all companies are heavily incentivized to do under a lot of circumstances (enough that circumstances will come up for practically any company regularly).

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    • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Steam comes to mind. But for stock market ones yeah 100%

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      • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Anticompetitive practices with their marketshare and pricing exclusivity. Fearful of what a post Gabe steam looks like too

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      • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Doesn’t need to be publicly traded; just about anything with investors looking for a return

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  • tulliandar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This author has a very low bar for “unshittification”.

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    • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yep. “My draconian DRM loosened the straight jacket a little.”

      Yayyy.

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  • NeilBru@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    UnDeshittification

    Makes more sense to me if the pre “en” is used in “enshittification”.

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  • zecg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This shiticle has no insight whatsoever, it’s basically a composite advert for three different product/services.

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  • El_Azulito@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What the fuck, Ars?

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  • Bonus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Unshittification @ … yes please

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  • dynamoMaus@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I got lost at the first few lines. No idea what any of this means.

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  • asret@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So one of his examples is that he bought stolen goods and when they were returned to the original owner he felt he deserved them as well? If he didn’t submit a charge back he’s complicit in supporting this fraud. The vendor should have offered to sell him a copy for the price he paid to the scammer instead.

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  • Pupschism@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    As someone who have used Iloks for years it baffles me that someone would say it’s not shit. Sure, cloud licensing can be much worse, but I hate those shitty usb keys

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  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Oh nyooo, they are enshitifying unenshitification!!

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