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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Forget Netflix, Volkswagen locks horsepower behind paid subscription (www.autoexpress.co.uk)

submitted 1 day ago by nemeski@mander.xyz to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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[–] Dadifer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Do they have something for Mercedes?

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Are you dealing with diesel or petrol? Naturally aspirated petrol is pretty useless to tune, anything turbocharged has tuning potential, especially diesel where you can get ridiculous torque.

[–] Dadifer@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Electric. You can unlock higher speeds with a subscription for EQS.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 15 hours ago

Ah, I'm sure there's some way to do it, but not sure if it's been discovered yet.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I’m not sure. Everything I’ve found for Mercs replaced the ECU entirely