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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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Amazon inform Prime members that its bundled music benefit will introduce ads and drop offline downloads on July 2;HD, Ultra HD, and Spatial Audio will require a separate Amazon Unlimited subscription (consumerrights.wiki)
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/technology/p/1175761/amazon-inform-prime-members-that-its-bundled-music-benefit-will-introduce-ads-and-drop-o

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1175760/amazon-inform-prime-members-that-its-bundled-music-benefit-will-introduce-ads-and-drop-o

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[–] TacocaT@piefed.social 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Prime sucks

Bezos is a fuckwad

Prime video now has ads

Prime music now has ads

They now make me box up returns and find a physical printer to print my own return postage rather than the more convenient drop off at location.

Easy solution for me. Fuck off Amazon. Sub cancelled

[–] IanM42@piefed.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yes to all except printing. It doesn’t always require a label.

Some things they’ve even said keep it and here’s your replacement.