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this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2024
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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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This is why iPhones are an immediate nonstarter for me. Can't run Firefox with ublock origin on iPhone while you can on Android.
AdGuard has a good Safari plugin. There’s also stuff like Consent-o-Matic for cookie popups and Amplosion to get rid of AMP pages (if they’re still a thing - completely forgot about them after installing Amplosion).
I run uBlock Origin on my desktop in Chrome. I use the Chrome browser on my Pixel.
You're on borrowed time until the end of the month:
RIP uBlock Origin? Google Proceeds With Plan to Shake Up Chrome Extensions
Yup. The enshitification for profit of their stuff is proceeding apace. I suspect that they're going to get some push back from the EU given how utterly fucking shitty their ad vetting is but we'll see.