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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YouTube before vs. after massive corporate, profit-driven enshittification (infosec.pub)

submitted 11 months ago by Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Every. Fucking. Year. I swear, google just runs a query to remove view history past a certain age. Every. Fucking. Year, there comes a time where my ENTIRE FUCKING HOME PAGE basically resets to a year ago, because it forgot I watched every fucking video already.

Fuck Google. They're too lazy to do anything correct.

[–] jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago

FTFY: Fuck ~~Google~~ Alphabet. They're too ~~lazy~~ profitable to care to do anything correct.