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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Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display (fuelarc.com)

submitted 1 week ago by KayLeadfoot@fedia.io to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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What a perfectly garbage feature.

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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

As cars have gotten bigger they have larger blind spots. That law was lobbied for by a man who accidentally backed over his child because his mirrors couldn’t see behind his truck.

The screens were originally just CCTV and couldn’t show ads at all.