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Netflix is starting to phase out its cheapest ad-free plan
(www.theverge.com)
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
We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.
We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.
I phased it out quickly last year by cancelling.
Me too.
I’m sure there was stuff that I’d enjoy, but finding it was near impossible.
At the end of the occasional thing I’d watch to the end, an irrelevant ad for something else jumps up. Kin annoying.