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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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Should someone tell Steve about adblock?
Yes, but their point about how awful the website is without adblock is still valid.
Gamers Nexus is making a point about what it's like as a consumer. Obviously they know how to block ads, but they're looking out for other people, not themselves
Oh no no, you can't use that. That's piracy 'member?
I know you're joking and referencing Linus, but you can consider it piracy and still be ok with doing it.
Saying that like Linus hasn’t been pro piracy for as long as I remember
Just out there raw dawgging the internet and asking why there's weird stuff showing up
The problem is that we used to "rawdog the internet", including Tom's Hardware, and there wasn't a problem, but now there is. Enshitification is only understandable when compared with an internet where shit like this didn't exist.