That was an interesting read.

If you wanna own your audiobooks you might wanna check out https://libro.fm/ - they allow you to download the bought audiobook without drm.
I gladly accept tips for similar sites when it comes to buying ebooks.

I bought my first ebook from amazon

Just don't do that. If you give money to this company, they'll continue to go down the path they're on. Enshitification.

This is a good look under the hood on why so much mainstream software actively sucks these days. They put so many fucking resources into dark capitalist shit, and zero into making it a good user experience.

that was such a great read no joke. I love it when people use spite as a motivator.