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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Mozilla Introducing 'Terms of Use' to Firefox (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

submitted 5 days ago by cm0002 to c/enshittification

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From the new terms:

When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.

Looks like FF is on track for enshittification, I (unfortunately and with great sadness) called it last year (and was downvoted for it lol)

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[–] CMDR_Horn 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So time to switch to a ff fork….but if everyone does that ff will shutdown leaving only the chromes…..ahhhhhhhhhh!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Honestly, I'm starting to think it's for the best.. Firefox downfall will make people invest in an alternative web engine, I'm thinking that would be Servo, all it's left is for forks to switch to it, of course that would mean they'll be responsible for all the features and patches (which is huge work), that'll require a fundraiser, and after that figure ways to make money such as an integrated VPN, Cloud Features such as notes, public bookmarks... Etc

All we need is determination, Mozilla won't save us, I mean ... save the web

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Ladybird is open source by the SerenityOS team but it is pre-alpha so it will be years before it is usable for most people