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The Internet is becoming genuinely unusable without an ad blocker
(self.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
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.
"Our studies have shown we can fill up to 80% of a user's visual field with ads before it induces seizures."
What a movie!
What movie?
Isn't that from Ready Player One?
Yep