Gregory's Server
One day, every Adobe customer in the world woke up to discover the colors in their career-spanning file collections had all turned black, and would remain black until they paid an upcharge:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/28/fade-to-black/#trust-the-process
The cloud allows the companies whose products you rely on to unilaterally alter their functioning and cost. Like mobile apps - which can't be reverse-engineered and modified without risking legal liability - cloud apps are built for enshittification.
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They are designed to shift power away from users to software companies. An app is just a web-page wrapped in enough IP to make it a felony to add an ad-blocker to it. A cloud app is some Javascript wrapped in enough terms of service clickthroughs to make it a felony to restore old features that the company now wants to upcharge you for.
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