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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LG Isn't the Only TV Company Spying on You (www.youtube.com)

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[–] mastod0n@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I've put way to much effort into this. Got an Android TV and took about three hours to investigate all the preinstalled apps before removing bloatware and spyware via adb before replacing the launcher and other adware. Of course I had to do this three times because I deleted necessary stuff the first two times.

Additionally this little shit got its own cage behind my firewall with connectivity whitelists, DNS redirects, and so on.