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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One potato, two potato, three potato, four. (blog.mozilla.org)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17201554

Mozilla acquired Anonym, an ad start-up

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

I don't care how "privacy preserving" ads are. If they are popups, auto-play, or flashing - I'm blocking that shit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

I'm glad I use Librewolf (heavily modified Firefox)