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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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    • Google Image Search removing the ability to go directly to the raw image after Getty complained that web users are bypassing its website and therefore not generating traffic
    • Facebook removing chronological feed
    • Facebook showing you pages that you never followed on your home feed without the ability to turn this off
    • Microsoft trying to introduce ads to Explorer and the start menu
    • Microsoft making it difficult to create a local Windows account by making the process unintuitive, leading the user to believe that a Microsoft account is needed to use Windows
    • Apple dropping support for iOS web apps because it doesn’t want to support browsers other than Safari
    • Reddit and Twitter’s ban of third-party API use that killed nearly all third-party clients
    • EA producing games that require users to be always online, despite the game being single-player, presumably as a DRM measure
    • Ad companies making it easy for you to give consent to data sharing and selling but really difficult for you to opt-out

    Edit: More examples