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Big Tech's War on Users

They built things we genuinely needed, got us hooked, and then figured out they could monetize the removal. Google, Apple, Amazon, Meta — different companies, same playbook. Documented as it happens.

(Note: If you are specifically hunting the TheranasAI arc, check here)

  1. Apple's Fastest Design Reversal Ever: iOS 26.1's Liquid Glass Toggle
  2. Apple vs. India: When Privacy Theater Meets Selective Enforcement
  3. Escaping Apple's iPad Keyboard Nightmare: A Privacy-First Experiment

  4. Typewise Keyboard Update: The Honeycomb Experiment Hits Reality

  5. YouTube Just Killed Your Browser Workaround—And Why This Should Piss You Off
  6. Four Days. That's How Long It Took YouTube to Prove My Point.
  7. The Passkey & OTP Nightmare: How "Security" Became User-Hostile
  8. So I Got Annoyed With Weather App Accuracy... and Built a Lab in My Pocket
  9. The Ad Blocker War: YouTube's Escalation and the Weapon They've Been Quietly Building
  10. Meta Banned Me Before I Could Even Scroll: A Threads Story
  11. Jensen Huang Wants $1 Trillion While Demoing Features You'll Need $10,000 to Run
  12. Your Car's New Brain Will Cost More to Fix Than the Car Is Worth
  13. You Load Sixteen Tokens, What Do You Get?
  14. Jensen's Apology Tour Changes Exactly Nothing
  15. Can a User-Hostile Leopard Change Its Spots? Or Will It Cheetah?
  16. The Crowbar on Pandora's Box
  17. Bitwarden Doubled Their Price. I'd Already Left. Here's What You Missed.
  18. Netflix Got $2.8 Billion Last Month. Now It Wants More of Yours.
  19. Phase 3: Profit — The GitHub Story
  20. They're Racing to Stay Ahead of the Fuse
  21. Do Not Blow Your Cover
  22. For Entertainment Purposes Only (Bonus Post!)
  23. "Privacy. That's iPhone." — and Other Things That Need an Asterisk
  24. Still Can't Get a Human to Read Your Resume. LinkedIn Knows Everything Else About You Though.
  25. Burn It Down
  26. Organics Not Required™
  27. Smile For The Algorithm
  28. "Not Even Government Agencies"
  29. The Rocket They Built Yesterday Morning
  30. The Walled Garden Is a Business Model: Apple's Other War on Users
  31. Life Found a Way
  32. Read Receipt
  33. The Zombie That Won't Stay Dead
  34. Character Flaw: A Postscript (Bonus Mini Post)
  35. That's The Number They're Telling You.
  36. Total Coincidence, I'm Sure
  37. Parallel Series (Bonus Mini Post)
  38. Phase 3, Act II: The Meter Is Running
  39. ​Sony Forgot What Won Them the Console War
  40. Evil vs Evil, or: How Two Billionaires Accidentally Told the Truth in Oakland
  41. Two sets of Numbers
  42. Zero Dollars In. Thirty Billion Out.
  43. Sony's Monopoly Fine Gets Paid In Monopoly Money
  44. Tired of Copilot? At Least Microsoft Told You.
  45. The IPO Just Got...Complicated
  46. House of Cards
  47. Close and Friendly
  48. Prove You're Human. Pay With Your Data.
  49. Better Rivets
  50. Disappearing Emails
  51. oh I'm sure there will be more...