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Submission + - Norwegian Consumer Council Targets 'Enshittification' (forbrukerradet.no) 1

DeanonymizedCoward writes: The Norwegian Consumer Council, an independent, governmentally funded organization that advocates for consumer’s rights, has released a report addressing the trends of 'enshittification' in consumer goods and services and laying out some steps consumers can take to buck the trends.

"It should be easy for consumers to make sustainable choices every day. Consumers have the right to be protected against exploitation – both financially and digitally. To ensure this, we work to provide easy access to information, enforceable rights, and sufficient redress options when something goes wrong," says the organization.

They have also released a YouTube video making light of the matter,

Submission + - British Transport Police Decriminalize Bicycle Theft (bbc.com) 8

An anonymous reader writes: The British Transport Police (BTP) says it will not investigate bike thefts outside stations where the bicycle has been left for more than two hours.

Commuters leave thousands of cycles on racks outside stations every day, including in specially built bike parks with CCTV. Critics say the BTP policy means those facilities are not secure and theft has effectively been decriminalised.

Any bikes stolen worth less than £200 will not be investigated, neither will car thefts if the vehicle has been left for more than two hours.

Comment Re:People you know (Score 1) 24

Will the fee also stop Facebook's AI slop, reels and other crap from people you don't know?

Never mind, it still won't bring me back. I take a look once in a while and it's 99% crap. Even people I'm interested in who do post don't show up in my feed, which totally defeats the purpose of the bloody thing.

FB is dead and it doesn't attract young people at all anymore. Insta will follow in due course.

Insta will follow when it's filled with all of the parents who have "graduated" from Facebook.

That being said, I wonder if paying for no ads includes no tracking across the internet, and no selling of the user's data. After all, the "if it's free you're the product" mantra doesn't (heh...shouldn't) apply any more.

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