I don’t think I can

I think that word is used wrongly here. Enshittification is a specific process and not just a product getting worse.

Admittedly I was completely ignorant of this before but if they switched (back?) to flac then it seems they at least listen to criticism, no?

Or what did they handle poorly? I was thinking of getting tidal but at the moment I am still content with my offline library.

MQA?

No die, is funni

Wait until you hear of a little state called Arkansas.

Whoosh?

The “this would never happen to me” mindset really is cancer to logical thought and reasoning.

I somewhere read (maybe it was thinking fast and slow by Kahneman?) that even psychology students learning about certain behaviors would later anonymously claim they would never fall into these patterns. But plot twist: they are also only human, so of course they also could fall into these patterns.

Another example: People that think they would never fall for a scam. If it is the right scam they will fall even more easily for it than people that know that it could happen.

“Of course it can’t be a scam. Scams are obvious and only idiots fall for them.”

I needed to scroll way too much to see people mention marketing and advertising. It’s a huge deal.

The power of good advertising is not to be underestimated. There is a good statistically proven reason why so much money flows into it. And it’s not only traditional advertising but viral and “astroturfed” advertising.

Depends on the author.

And with crowd strike we have seen how reliable Antivirus is.

A few libraries come to mind immediately: fftw (I think the most widely used fft library) or GMP (I think the most used multi precision library).

Google takeout is the best gdpr compliant platform of all the big tech giants. Amazon for example lets you wait until the very last day they legally can.

Also they do minimal processing like with the metadata (as others commented) as it is probably how they internally store it and that’s what they need to deliver. The simple fact that you can select what you want to request and not having to download everything about you makes it good in my eyes.

I actually see good faith compliance with the gdpr in the Plattform