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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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How do you do it? I've been thinking about just blacklisting some sites altogether from my search, but couldn't find a solution to do it across most big search engines - duckduckgo and Google - that I use. Also plus if it is just a simple click on a result.
I generally do this but I only ever use the internet from my phone. Haven’t used a computer in years.
I mainly browse on PC, and have an Android, but thanks for the effort nonetheless.