Enshittification is the word of the year, it means to make worse while extracting greater profits. It is shrinking serving sizes while raising prices. It is adding unwanted features and charging more for them because users have no choice. It is squeezing users for more profit while telling employees there's no budget for raises this year despite the banner announcing record profits. It is an AI rejected your cover letter and resume in .00000005 seconds and calling it efficiency. It is allowing job vacancies to remain empty so long that the work ends up being distributed among the remaining workers and that departed employee's pay becomes a little more profit for the owner class.
Back to today's rant...
Ebay has decided in their infinite wisdom that users MUST HAVE a new module on their homepages imploring whether users are Ready to Resell items they purchased through Ebay over the years. Okay. Seems stupid as fuck since I buy a lot of consumed and no longer existing items so they're simply not resellable.
But my own special Ready to Resell box has decided that I am 100% committed to reselling underwear I've bought through the site. Its the only thing it shows. There is no means to turn it off. There is no means to change what it stupidly tries to suggest I resell. There is nothing I can do if it decides to display embarrassing items I've bought over the many years. There is NOTHING users can do to prevent this invasive, unwanted, stupid as fucking hell "feature" Ebay shoved at users without the slightest regard for them.
Even going to the individual listings in the purchase list and hiding those things DOES NOTHING. There is no way to control what EBAY decides I should want to resell. This is beyond crazy, this is like cutting crack with fentanyl and then rolling it in PCP. It also serves to make the site completely NSFW if you have happened to, I dunno, have bought a medical device or sex toy through the site because hey, you want to resell that dildo, don't you? Sure you do!
The reality is I am not reselling anything ever and this absolutely MORONIC forced garbage makes the site unusable.
As such, this is probably what makes me give up on Ebay for good. They've gotten worse and worse over the years and this could be what puts them over the line, the one reads More Trouble Than They Are Worth. A line that many places and products are finding themselves these days.
Related bullshit has forced me to leave Twitter, Bluesky and Reddit, there are probably others that I'm forgetting. Sites that treat their users like crap deserve to fail. Twitter is run by a loser Nazi richest guy on earth and everyone who knows him up close, fucking hates him. Bluesky is run by liberals providing cover for Zionists and Reddit is run by straight up Zionists. Much like our government, a wholly owned and controlled subsidiary of Israel somehow with pledges of fealty from sitting Senators, Congresspeople, Mayors, Governors and more.
Enshittification is likely to be the word of the year and might become the word of the decade. That or the new capitalist maxim, Profit Uber Alles.
There is also a movement by the fascist powers that be to age-gate access to the internet and websites under the guise of "protecting the children" when it is, as always, about control and censorship. The scum pushing age-verification on the internet rape children, they literally do not fucking care about children at all but will happily use them as a wedge to foist their agenda on the nation and, by extension, the world.
It is hard to not feel overwhelmed by the colossal forces of darkness and greed that are seemingly consuming the planet. Very tempted to change the name of this blog to Vox Clamantis in Inanis, a voice crying out into the void, because that's very much what most of my online posting feels like these days.