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 4 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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[–] vikingtons 3 points 4 days ago

Apparently it's only applicable to people using the chatbot thing.

Still abhorrent but it shouldn't apply to anybody otherwise. I'm still all for prying Firefox away from Mozilla.