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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

This actually sounds like a perfect use case for AI/ML, similar to https://github.com/xenova/sponsorblock-ml

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

i pay for everything in cash to avoid being tracked.

i use a multi-hop VPN and privacy browser

i use a private email services

i am terrified of being tracked and use linux

The last consumer product i bought was a probably-stolen bottle of head and shoulders that was illegally being re-sold by a poor vendor who lacked a permit. At the time, i did not have a cell phone with me and my wallet has RFID blocking build into it. I paid for it in cash. I kept it in a bag and showed it to no one until I used it in secret.

I finally saw an ad on YouTube after YEARS of not seeing that bullshit.

Those mother-fuckers showed me a head and shoulders ad. How the fuck did they know?

Fuck YouTube, fuck head and shoulders. I've decided to never wash my hair again, shave my head, and get as much dandruff as possible. I am just done.

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