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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[–] Dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 weeks ago

They also had the ability to hack it to view exactly what it was doing and recording and trying to send and how. Without that access they'd be very limited in reporting.

Someone else did the hacking work fwiw they just used the exploits