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littlebluespark ,
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So, not unlike, say... "Ow, My Balls!" era IRL? That tracks.

blueberry ,

Fine with me if we life in the enshittocene. If the fedicene is coming right after it

BmeBenji ,

I’m like 99% sure “enshittification” is just a code word for “capitalism”

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TurtleJoe ,
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It is a word coined to describe a specific capitalistic process, yes.

JasSmith ,

I really think this is overblown. Almost all the services encompassed by the term are luxury. We don’t need Netflix. Just stop paying for it. Businesses all follow a similar trajectory: concept -> growth -> monetisation -> decline. If you’re over 30 you’ve seen many companies rise and fall. They all fail eventually, and from their ashes rise new companies. If you’re ambitious, you’ll capitalise on the opportunity and your company will fill that gap.

Embrace change.

Thcdenton ,

It's the bubble popping and its glorious.

PeepinGoodArgs ,

Now, the enshittifiers aren’t taking this lying down. Take Lina Khan, the brilliant head of the US Federal Trade Commission, who has done more in three years on antitrust than the combined efforts of all her predecessors over the past 40 years. The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page has run more than 80 pieces trashing Khan, insisting that she’s an ineffectual ideologue who can’t get anything done. Sure, that’s why you ran 80 editorials about her. Because she can’t get anything done.

I love when other people realize the value of Lina Khan. I'll vote for Biden for the sole reason to let Lina Khan do good work!

AnActOfCreation ,
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I actually thought the paywalled article was the meme at first.

Also shoutout Bypass Paywalls Clean (D). It's practically up there with uBlock Origin as required to browse today's internet.

Cypher ,

The add-on you linked appears to be a fork after the original was DMCA struck, the original is still available at https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean

PeepinGoodArgs ,

Holy shit, YES!

AnActOfCreation ,
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I believe the one you linked is the fork. Here is the original.

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

I recommend the fork you linked because the original author supposedly was slow and reluctant to add new sites and now copies fixes from the fork.

Read more about the history here: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean/-/issues/1

VonCesaw ,

https://i.imgur.com/Al6GCMW.png

HAHAHAHAHA

Abnorc ,

They really meant it!

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unreasonabro ,

"See? Look!"

This article brought to you by the ultimate enshittifier of news, the Financial Times. The reason's in the name!

stockRot ,

How has healthcare software like MyChart been enshittified? It's probably the tech I care the most about and the tech no one seems to talk about.

SpaceCowboy ,
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I'm not familiar with that particular piece of software. It may not be enshittified... yet. But it only take someone in the company to makes it to show the can make some ad revenue by plopping a bunch of ads on the site. Or even worse, they could start selling the data, which is particularly worrisome given it's medical data. Think about how much pharma companies spend on advertising and how valuable it would be to them to be able to do targeted advertising directed at people the know have conditions that they're selling treatments for.

The data on a site like that is ridiculously valuable. Sooner or later someone may decide to give a marketing company contracted by a big pharma company just one little peak at some data.

DeepGradientAscent ,
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The data on a site like that is ridiculously valuable. Sooner or later someone may decide to give a marketing company contracted by a big pharma company just one little peak at some data.

In the Untitled States, that data is protected via several statutes, HIPAA being the most widely known and robust governance over such information.

captain_aggravated ,
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It's only illegal if you can't afford the fines. As businesses routinely prove, if your company is big enough they just budget for fines.

ShunkW ,

HIPAA fines are massive for now. So the cost risk doesn't work for them yet. But I'm sure some politicians will find a way to make it just the cost of doing business soon.

captain_aggravated ,
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The other option is "It's too expensive to go after them." See: Taxes.

afraid_of_zombies ,

They will find a way around it. Maybe they will claim it doesn't count because it is tried to metadata and not an individual person.

expr ,

HIPPA is no joke and companies actually don't fuck around with it. It's not worth it. It's one of the few pieces of consumer protection out there that has real teeth. Under HIPPA, you are expressly forbidden from using personal health information for anything unrelated to that patient's care, and companies can and are fined heavily for violating it.

Cracks_InTheWalls ,
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I would love to see someone discuss any enshitification trends with EHR software, as well as any initiatives to bolster FOSS stuff like OSCAR for hospital use cases (far as I know, it's pretty much just used at the clinic level, with more and more uptake of proprietary solutions for that use case as well here in Canada [obligatory Fuck Telus]).

https://fammed.mcmaster.ca/oscar-emr/

Debrox ,

"Subscribe to unlock article."
Oh, the irony. 😂

mydude ,

Enshitification only comes for the things capitalism touches... So yeah, everything...

flying_sheep ,
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Nah, it won't touch projects like KDE.

sebsch , (edited )

I am a big fan of KDE, but having qt's role in mind I wouldn't be too sure. I think they already try to enforce tracking there.

flying_sheep ,
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Qt is exactly why I'm so sure. They made sure that there was a legal agreement that Qt would always stay open source or else they'd get the ability to make it available under a BSD license: https://kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation/

That's a project that understands the entanglement and doesn't allow itself to be taken over.

sebsch ,

That's amazing news. Thank you for clarifying

pmk ,

If ads are pushed into ed(1), then it truly is everything. But, as long as Theo is the leader of OpenBSD, we will always have a free operating system.

Kushia ,
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Enshitification comes because of the unsustainable growth required by Capitalism in order to appease shareholders. Line must always go up!

AA5B ,

Enshittification comes from failure of government to establish a market where capitalism acts for the benefit of society. It comes from failure of antitrust regulations, failure of consumer protections, failure of broadcaster fairness doctrine, failure to reward a sustainable business model rather than simply maximizing quarterly profit, failure to support public broadcasting, failure to mandate ethics/honesty/transparency, failure to incent public good such environmental responsibility.

Kushia ,
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So Capitalism, gotcha.

Resol ,
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It was coming for absolutely everything since 2013 at least.

I will never forget the day when Creative Suite was no longer a thing. I will never forget the day when Apple flattened iOS. I will never forget the day when the Xbox One was announced.

Can you believe their modern products are basically a continuation of what they started back in 2013? This is why it's the worst year of all time.

Krauerking ,

We have been shockingly stagnant for some time now but it's been creeping for a while now. Decades of slow but building shittiness.

The initial investment and machines put in motion and more and more the only goal was to scrape as much profitability from them.

Now that the tech is struggling to advance in meaningful leaps and bounds that the populace can easily be pushed into following cause it truly just keeps getting better we are really in the shit zone. But Companies have realized they are so big that your options are work with them for whatever scraps they feel like giving, or don't work at all cause who else is there.

Resol ,
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No wonder why nobody really tried to make neomorphism big

Krauerking ,

Oh man we should really do a review of the most recent worst year limited to just the last 200 years or else we are competing with the black Plague or the final boss of 536 C.E.

Resol ,
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Everyone would be talking about... certain events related to WW2.

Thanks a lot, mustache man.

MattTheProgrammer ,
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You leave Charlie Chaplin out of this.

Resol ,
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Not that mustache man, the Austrian one who knows how to paint. I think he has a friend that wanted to "conquer Asia" or something.

Krauerking ,

Hmmm touche... Men with mustaches are gonna be a lot of years sticking points if we cast that big of a net. It's shocking how nice things were on the base level the last few decades in terms of mass deaths.

Does feel like we are priming ourselves for a whallop though. So maybe worst foreshadowing year? Or worst step back year in the last 100 years?

Resol ,
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This got me thinking for a bit.

I'm guessing these last two statements are kinda correct.

Twitches ,

We would have to look at death percentages to population numbers. We might just have more people dying because of population is larger. Dieing of stupid shit has to be higher.

aeharding ,
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‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything

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sethadam1 ,

Best comment I'll read today.

laurelraven ,

Unintentionally brilliant

daed ,

Dude, I was trying to deal with the fucking Fullscreen cookie popup when the subscribe to unlock bullshit popped up and I just closed it immediately

Couldn't send that point home any harder

feedum_sneedson ,

Okay that's it, it's been overused.

AgentGrimstone ,

I really feel it now that Prime and Netflix have ads in the middle of their content.

jkrtn ,

If everyone who complained about ads in Prime and Netflix canceled their accounts, then Prime and Netflix would be motivated to remove their ads.

T00l_shed ,

The minute I got the prime notification I went and canceled immediately. And same with Netflix, I wish more people would do the same.

LWD ,

Wouldn't this also cause them to charge more to make up for lost paying customers? 🤔

jkrtn ,

Certainly possible, but there is a limit to what they can charge before losing customers on price as well as on principle.

Blackmist ,

I did for Prime.

Netflix didn't put ads in for me, since I was already on the "4K" plan. Didn't they just throw in an even lower tier for their ad version?

AA5B ,

I dropped it with the new policy on sharing, although I didn’t wait for their follow through. As a divorced parent with kids, including one in college, if your family plan doesn’t work for my family because they may sometimes live in other locations, you’re out. I was ok paying for the family plan, but if you’re going to hassle one kid when he’s at my ex’s or the other at school, how is that worth my money?

Blackmist ,

Yeah, I agree that's a crap policy for any family that may be spread over more than one household like that.

Do they actually cut you off if you ignore them and carry on doing it anyway?

AA5B ,

I didn’t wait for them to follow through. I decided I didn’t have to spend money with a company that was going to treat me as a criminal

AA5B ,

Fr the longest time, I got Prime because of Prime. The ebooks and videos were just an included bonus. The bonus going to shit doesn’t change what the original decision was based on.

Prime video has been on this road for a long time, as videos with ads took o paver more and more of its Home Screen. It got more and more annoying clicking past the clutter of “FreeVee” videos to find stuff I wanted to watch, but I guess it’s all stuff to click past now

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