Enshittification

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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

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We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.

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Spotify to increase premium pricing in the US to $11.99 per month (techcrunch.com)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/16690091

Spotify has announced that it's hiking subscriptions for new customers in the U.S., the second such price increase in the space of a year.

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[–] atmur 13 points 7 months ago

Oh cool, so they're going to start paying artists more with this extra money, right?

Right?