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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Man discovers his parents’ coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days (www.dexerto.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by inari@piefed.zip to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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[–] ZpbkPEcaHhIveqdR@lemmy.world 61 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Considering the website claims it "respects your privacy" but doesn't give you a choice to opt out of cookies for 1,746 partners, the website hardly seems like a good source

[–] Tehdastehdas@piefed.social 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"We value your privacy - give it to us"

[–] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 weeks ago

"We value your privacy. We sell it to the highest bidder for a lot of moolah"

[–] BlackRoseAmongThorns@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

And it barely contained any information, too.