As the article describes, Octopus are very good at providing open data for many of their services.
Over the winter, they are running saving sessions where they pay customers to reduce energy use at certain times of day. To find out about these saving sesions, they encourage you to follow them on their proprietary app, WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram. On this occasion, they have abandoned their use of open data and resorted to enshittified corporate services instead.
As the article describes, Octopus are very good at providing open data for many of their services.
Over the winter, they are running saving sessions where they pay customers to reduce energy use at certain times of day. To find out about these saving sesions, they encourage you to follow them on their proprietary app, WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram. On this occasion, they have abandoned their use of open data and resorted to enshittified corporate services instead.