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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"Keep your ad blocker on", does it turn itself off randomly if you don't pay? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by Dju@lemmy.world to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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[–] Mereo@lemmy.ca 219 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Get Firefox
Get uBlock Origin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/

[–] KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml 105 points 4 months ago

Step 1 is critical because ad blockers on Chrome (for obvious reasons) have some limitations. Even the developer of uBlock origin recommends Firefox: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 29 points 4 months ago

Alternatively. Get Adnausem

It is built on top of ublock origin and will "click" on the adverts behind the scenes and make advertisers think you like a product messing with your advertising profile.

It also has a nice AdVault so you can see what advertisers are trying to push onto you.

[–] Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 months ago

Even better: get Librewolf with uBO pre-installed!