I was temporarily blocked from my blogger account due to some bizarre technical problems. Google does not provide any customer service -- there is no way to contact them, no way to talk to a human, and the FAQs they offered did not solve my problem. I finally figured it out with the help of IT support from my university, but it took the better part of three days.
This whole thing was ultimately the result of the enshittification of everything. I'm not going to bother you with the whole back story but the basic point is, it's getting harder and harder to do anything, more and more costly, and you're getting less for your trouble and your money as Google, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft hoover up the planet. I'm not quite feeling helpless yet but I'll bet a lot of people are. What is to be done?
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