Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are “as painful as possible” for Firefox (www.theverge.com)
The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack (bsky.app)
Brought to you by the Department of Erasing History.
Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
If you can, use Firefox.
Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads (www.lowpass.cc)
Roku is exploring ways to show consumers ads on its TVs even when they are not using its streaming platform: The company has been looking into injecting ads into the video feeds of third-party devices connected to its TVs, according to a recent patent filing. ...
Threads is automatically hiding comments that mention Pixelfed (mastodon.social)
For anyone wondering if Threads and Facebook at large will be a fine neighbor in the space and compatible with other apps/services in the fediverse: they’re already automatically hiding comments that mention Pixelfed https://mastodon.social/@dansup/112126250737482807
Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay $120000 within 24h (robindev.substack.com)
Also, interesting comment I found on HackerNews (HN):...
Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows (about.winamp.com)
Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says (arstechnica.com)
Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever” (arstechnica.com)
Oh look, Sony revoking more licenses for video content that people "bought".
A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions (www.theregister.com)
Schleswig-Holstein, Germany's most northern state, is starting its switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, and is planning to move from Windows to Linux on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions....
Oregon’s governor signs right-to-repair law that bans “parts pairing” (www.theverge.com)
Majority of Americans now use ad blockers (www.theregister.com)
Google is losing it (lemmy.world)
The DMA already having an impact. Brave Browser installs surge after introduction of browser choice splash screen on iOS. (lemmy.world)
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/03/13/brave-browser-rise-installs-ios-14-7-eu/
IRS makes free tax return program permanent and is asking all states to join in 2025. This could deal a massive blow to private tax filing services such as TurboTax (apnews.com)
It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription (slate.com)
The author canceled their Amazon Prime subscription on a whim and realized they didn't really need it....
"Maybe This is Too Cool" - After years of layoffs and pay/resource freezes, Amazon execs treat themselves to a private Foo Fighters concert worth millions (radarblog.substack.com)
UK Woman Mistaken As Shoplifter By Facewatch, Now She's Banned From All Stores With Facial Recognition Tech (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
A big biometric security company in the UK, Facewatch, is in hot water after their facial recognition system caused a major snafu - the system wrongly identified a 19-year-old girl as a shoplifter.
Reddit embracing all out enshittification (arstechnica.com)
Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed...
Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining (www.neowin.net)
Statcounter reports that Windows 11 continues to lose its market share for the second month in a row. Windows 10, meanwhile, is gaining more users and is now back above the 70% mark.
Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 (www.tomshardware.com)
Microsoft, doing it's part to make the world a better place.
CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information (futurism.com)
You know how Google's new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won't slide off (pssst...please don't do this.)...
IRS successfully launches their own free Direct File - some of my fellow 'murcans are eligible (sh.itjust.works)
For your simple[r] tax needs: https://directfile.irs.gov...
Music Piracy Is Back, Baby (gizmodo.com)
"Muso, a research firm that studies piracy, concluded that the high prices of streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music are pushing people back towards illegal downloads. Spotify raised its prices by one dollar last year to $10.99 a month, the same price as Apple Music. Instead of coughing up $132 a year, more consumers...
Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI. (www.reuters.com)
