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Sigh.
Is it so hard to just be an ethical company? Must every product and service become enshittified?
Couldn't they have just made these "features" an add-on that the user can choose to install (and agree to a separate ToS to use), rather than have it baked into the browser code?
There was a time when you could use the same piece of software or service for decades without worry. Now, I feel like I'm replacing software every few months because of enshittification.
Well, assuming by company you mean a for-profit entity, then yes.
I mean company*
*organisation, non-profit, for-profit, family-owned, corporation, etc.
Why is it so difficult to be ethical? Why the hell is being unethical rewarded by our society? We have everything so ass backwards.
Because in order to create a society that rewards ethical behavior, you have to get rid of the all the unethical people in positions of power and privilege, and they are the ones with the power to actually change society, because society rewards unethical behavior?
There are lots of ethical non profits and organizations, with a big asterisk that of course ethics are relative.
I agree with you. I don't think there are any ethical way to make money. You always have to exploit someone or something affecting third parties. Yes, you could reduce to minimal expression, but it will never going to be zero. And at the end, I think this is the problem with most forms of life, the predatory model. With some plants and bacteria exception. But yeah, nature knows nothing about justice because it is a human construct, but still...