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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Suddenly firefox on ios shows ads on homescreen (feddit.nl)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 :(

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You think it's anti-libre software? Use Fennec from F-Droid, a Firefox fork.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

and pray, how do you install it on iOS?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Try fork iOS, oh wait...