This shiticle has no insight whatsoever, it’s basically a composite advert for three different product/services.

This author has a very low bar for “unshittification”.

A company that stops using dial home DRM because it’s costing them too much money should hardly be lauded.

What the fuck, Ars?

UnDeshittification

Makes more sense to me if the prefix “en” is used in “enshittification”.

I got lost at the first few lines. No idea what any of this means.

As someone who have used Iloks for years it baffles me that someone would say it’s not shit. Sure, cloud licensing can be much worse, but I hate those shitty usb keys

So one of his examples is that he bought stolen goods and when they were returned to the original owner he felt he deserved them as well? If he didn’t submit a charge back he’s complicit in supporting this fraud. The vendor should have offered to sell him a copy for the price he paid to the scammer instead.