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Amazon is bricking primary feature on $160 Echo device after 1 year
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2024
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Enshittification
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What is enshittification?
The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source
The lifecycle of Big Internet
We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.
Embrace, extend and extinguish
We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.
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Oof we have thousands of these at my work. I would happily light them on fire but for the whole needing a job thing and staying out of jail thing
what use do these things have in the work place? unless amazon sent them for free because guaranteed captive audience for ads?
Sorry... The company I work for has a contract with that company named after a giant river. We are wzrehousing, packaging, shipping, all that shit. Not sure why any of this is happening.
When do people learn and stick with the smaller tributaries?
Just don’t go chasing waterfalls