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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"Keep your ad blocker on", does it turn itself off randomly if you don't pay? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by Dju to c/enshittification

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why the fuck are people still using adblock? They did a similar thing many years ago already, which is when ublock properly took off.

[–] wreckedcarzz 33 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Because people don't know