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Imagine an encyclopedia.
Now imagine I own the encyclopedia, and Walmart offers me money.
So i paste Walmart's Xmas catalogue pages in between the useful information in the encyclopedia. You ask about frog facts, you get frog pajamas. You try to look up cultural information and get travel ticket prices. You never planned on purchasing anything, and you are too poor too anyway. But somehow I and Walmart make money off of your displeasure.
This is ad revenue. This is the modern economy. Its a sham. Its an infinite money go brrrttt machine for billionaires.
Enshitification.
I hope the articles and us talking about it so much can get some scientist to do a study about this!
What immediately comes to mind: how long does enshittification take to progress through the stages typically? Is there any company owned platforms who managed to avoid enshittification? What percentage? Is practicing enshittification more profitable and thus pushing out companies who don‘t do it? If yes, how much more profitable?
I need some cold and hard facts cause there is still an amount of denial around even these parts, which perhaps scientific research could help with.