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
We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.
We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.
cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/21985939
Just know I saw this, because I would never ever visit freaking groupon. “Sponsored shortcuts” can be disabled in the settings . Bleh :(
go to customize homepage >shortcuts >toggle off sponsored shortcuts
I mean a free open-source project's gotta get money someway or another. At least they're nice enough to give you the option to turn it off.
And it’s so simple a child could figure it out.
Have they tried not making individuals rich?
Don't look into Mozilla's finances, please.
The freeloaders will bitch about ads while never donating a dime.
Mozilla is making millions of dollars each year.
Yep, no one is disputing that, the issue is where those millions comes from....
Google.
If Firefox is to survive they need independant income strearms outside of Google.
I wouldn't be so worried about that. Google actually needs to fund Mozilla, so no one can claim that they have a monopoly on browser rendering engines. Mozilla will always get some funding, and they will always ensure that it has some user base, no matter how small, just so they can escape antitrust regulation.
You are eligible for a full refund if you aren’t satisfied with the $0 you paid for Firefox.
by that logic every foss project is justified in enshittifying
Enshittification describes a specific process that is ultimately about maximizing profit for shareholders at the expense of everyone else’s experience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
Mozilla doesn’t have shareholders, neither do most open source projects.
When people give away software for free and yet attempt to make a living from it through other means like ads, that’s a different sorta thing.
Some will still manage to complain that the software they received for free has some ads. Others will ask how they help or donate so that the software can be ad-free.
You do you.
so making firefox shittier doesnt count because technically they dont have shareholders? nah man.
Don't care bout that tell us more about Vicky.
You think it's anti-libre software? Use Fennec from F-Droid, a Firefox fork.
and pray, how do you install it on iOS?
Try fork iOS, oh wait...
If you're on Android, just go to about:config and disable browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsored and browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsoredTopSites. Or use a Mull, a hardened version for Firefox for Android, which disables this by default.
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