Enshittification: The Thread

Yeah, it was a “water will be wet” kind of prediction.

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Looks like there’s a mobile ad strike now, or at least the beginnings of one. As a response, Unity is blocking user acquisition features.

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I assume if you send them an e-mail, you get a response that’s only the poop emoji.

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That just takes it right back to one of the primary reasons folks used Prime Video in the first place!

Bold Strategy Cotton GIF by MOODMAN

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I think we could come up with a novel term to describe this practice. “Enshittification”, maybe?

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Fuck that. Good thing I’ve turned off auto-renew on my Prime membership.

Thank you, Pirate Bay, for your continued existence.

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… but has Amazon turned off auto-renew on YOU?

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Well, there is at least 45 minutes of my day sorted!

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37695035

Bandcamp employees unionized and Epic couldn’t get rid of it fast enough. Can’t let that cancer spread to the game devs, oh no!

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Intuit: “Our fraud fights racism”

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