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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Logitech has an idea for a “forever mouse” that requires a subscription (arstechnica.com)

submitted 3 months ago by HailSeitan to c/enshittification

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Normal, plug and play mice last a long time, with or without firmware updates, which are typically free. I guarantee that nobody will buy this mouse, and if it does release it will stop receiving updates within six months.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

why would a mouse even need firmware updates? all it has to do is translate movement into bits, nothing about that should need altering..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Some have programmable button/other features that might benefit from firmware updates