2025-05-25

• It’s happened again. An app I used to love has been enshittified to the point where I have stopped using it for its core functionality. This time, it’s Audible. They no longer support playing books offline that you have bought and downloaded. Absurdly user-hostile choice. Additionally, their DRM-bullshit check that they run when you click the “play” button takes ages. It’s almost like the people who implemented this system are incompetent. Add that to the nonsense of making the “home” page not show me my library and instead bombard me with ads, plus the fact that when I go to my “library” page, the scrolling performance is atrociously janky, and I have now stitched together a new system for listening to my audiobooks. Hate to see it go this way, as I used to love Audible and had been a customer/subscriber for 10 years. Oh well, maybe that’s all we can expect from successful apps run by mega-corps.

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