Fuck Spotify. I'll buy albums (drm free, mostly from Bandcamp), pirate, or go without.
Today is bandcamp Friday, too. Bandcamp passes their cut on to the band.
jtrek
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It's kind of funny that because most of us are nice, no one just beat the shit out of trump or worse. Assholes are kind of like parasites taking advantage of kindness.
Sometimes I make a conscious effort to think about what I would say to someone else in my situation. It's helpful.
I miss my pandemic D&D^1^ group. It was an 18 year old that just finished high school, two people in their mid 20s in grad school, me in my mid 30s, and one person in their mid 40s. Every once in a while we'd get some interesting generation-gap moments.
^1^ I don't even like D&D specifically, but that group really made it work.
It would take an incomprehensible set of changes for me to consider going back to Microsoft. They can fuck off.
People are lazy and don't think very much. Spotify is right there.
Also enshittification: it was better to draw people in, and then they made it shittier and people stay
I buy music (mostly from Bandcamp). Now I have a big library and no subscription fee.
I don't know a lot about how fingerprinting works, but some of what i've read is pretty insidious. Some things could probably be obfuscated, but some of what the trackers use has legitimate purposes as well. Your application may serve different content based on the screen size, or fall back to an older library if such-and-such API isn't supported.
Personally I'd rather make targeting advertising and tracking illegal, and gut the whole thing to avoid the arms race.
So you're going to make it illegal to call getBoundingClientRect and then pass that information to fetch through any mechanism?
You'd have to kill a lot of JavaScript and CSS for that to work, and then a lot of legitimate function goes away.
Done much web development work?
I'm pretty sure for fonts they can tell because they have different widths, which affects page layout, which can be measured.
There's a lot of stuff like that.
Best would be make it illegal and give the law teeth. Solving it technically will always be an arms race.
They could pay people to check, but it's more important that they spend billions on slop and executive bonus.