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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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Is it even possible to buy a tv nowadays that doesn’t have this crap?
It's possible, Good luck finding dumb TV in the store.
The internet is for:
porn
finding hospitality/digital signage displays, which have even better specs than consumer ones, because they aren't subject to the same energy saving regulations
In a store? No. Online? Searching for "dumb TV" produces lots of options.
Never connect a smart TV to your WiFi, disable WiFi, connect an Android TV box via HDMI and use that. Debloat, root, or run a custom ROM on that box. Then run SmartTube, Jellyfin, Pi-hole, etc. to bring ad-free sanity to your living room. Obviously a dumb TV is best. But this is your best alternative, if you already have a "smart" TV.
Sceptre still makes dumb TVs (that are actually consumer TVs, not overpriced digital signage displays).
I miss mine.
Yes. You have to go and look for business display panels, e. g. those used for menus in restaurants, fast food chains, display stands etc.