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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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They have physical books that supplement the printing costs with ads.
Libraries still exist for now. Take advantage of them and maybe they won't all get shut down.
library books are still physical books that sometimes have ads in them to supplement thecost of printing. they don't get conjured up by librarian mages.
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Be a lot cooler if they did
Those aren't super intrusive. It's not a loud ad that has to load, yell at you and slows down getting to the content I question, and printed ads in books don't disrupt a music listening session by playing shitty ad music between songs as you're getting a specific mood on. Print ads don't bug me the way web and video ads do