Enshittification

1594 readers

1 users here now

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.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

981

YouTube is experimenting with server-side ads (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

363 comments fedilink hide all child comments

https://fosstodon.org/@sponsorblock/112603139898164385

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

They're not getting a penny from me while they host hate on their platform, for one.

Second, fuck em. Am I supposed to care about Google? The company that routinely ruins everything good in every product they've ever had? Am I to assume their bullshit ends once they get my credit card?

I paid good money for Google Play Music for years only for them to destroy it. I paid for Google Drive for years only for them to break the desktop syncing functions. I've been paying for Android since it started, and they have routinely broken my ability to use my own phone the way I please, and now they actively punish me for it.

And you want me to keep paying them?

Nah. I'm not helping them. If they can't afford to host it for free, fine. Let it burn.