What kind of pre-enshittification tech do you all use? Stuff where ppl look at you like you’re an alien b/c nobody does it that any more.
Me ->
Oldschool offline mp3 player rather than Spottify or other streaming or phone app, to use when running.
Paper books rather than e-books.
DRM free games I buy on GOG to avoid rootkitting my own comp.
Wired speakers rather than smart speakers.
Old ass pre-connected car.
Prob more but I can’t think of it all rn.
Btw, does Youtube (webäpp) switch to their audio-only channels, if they detect focus loss?
Because that’s how people use it anxyway – playing the full video of a song/podcast they only listen to. And Youtube has always at least one audio-only channel
Only if you pay for premium. Regular users it refuses to play in the background.
So Google prefers to waste their own (and the users mobile) bandwidth on the majority of non-paying users?
What the heck?