Be A Property Owner And Not A Renter On The Internet

The year is 2025. The internet in the shape that we’ve known it in the early 2000s is no longer there. Or, not quite in the shape that we’ve seen it before. This is not just plain nostalgia talking – the vibrant ecosystem of blogs, feeds, personal sites, and forums has been usurped by a few mega-concentrated players.

Great ideas by Den Delimarsky on being the mater of your own domain – literally.

https://den.dev/blog/be-a-property-owner-not-a-renter-on-the-internet

Mad at Meta? Don’t Let Them Collect and Monetise Your Personal Data

How to hurt Meta in the hip pocket.

It’s a drop in the ocean – but if many people do it, well when Apple introduced changes to make tracking harder on iPhones, Meta lost billions in revenue, demonstrating just how valuable your personal data is to its business.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/mad-meta-dont-let-them-collect-and-monetize-your-personal-data

DEF CON 31 – An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet’s Enshittification – Cory Doctorow – YouTube

The enshittification of the internet follows a predictable trajectory: first, platforms are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

It doesn’t have to be this way. Enshittification occurs when companies gobble each other up in an orgy of mergers and acquisitions, reducing the internet to “five giant websites filled with screenshots of text from the other four” (credit to Tom Eastman!), which lets them endlessly tweak their back-ends to continue to shift value from users and business-customers to themselves. The government gets in on the act by banning tweaking by users – reverse-engineering, scraping, bots and other user-side self-help measures – leaving users helpless before the march of enshittification.

We don’t have to accept this! Disenshittifying the internet will require antitrust, limits on corporate tweaking – through privacy laws and other protections – and aggressive self-help measures from alternative app stores to ad blockers and beyond!
— Read on m.youtube.com/watch