Comment on ‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything

linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This would be a meme by itself:

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  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    SIXTY NINE EUROS PER MONTH HOLY FUCK

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    • rambaroo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Financial times has always been always expensive AF because it’s made for rich investors.

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      • KevonLooney@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        FT is for suckers. Barron’s is the better news source.

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    • the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Only 420 euros if you sign up for a whole year

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• csolisr@communities.azkware.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And not just any paywall, a NINETY-NINE CANADIAN DOLLARS PER MONTH ONE. Granted the first month is a single dollar, but still, that’s a grand total of C$1090 A YEAR.

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  • RGB3x3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, it’s $75 USD a month. Who the fuck do they think they are charging that much? I get 1Gbps internet for less than that. That’s 3 weeks worth of groceries. That’s YouTube Premium, Disney+, Netflix, and Max combined.

    Absolutely no way an online news outlet is providing even close to a quarter of that $75 in value.

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    • pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s 2 weeks worth of groceries.

      I would be lucky to get a week off of that. If all I ate was instant ramen and stovetop pasta for every single meal, I might be lucky enough to get two weeks off of that.

      Absolutely no way an online news outlet is providing even close to a quarter of that $75 in value.

      The outlet is called Financial Times, and—if you think about it—they certainly do an excellent job in helping individuals manage their finances correctly. After seeing a $75 charge on my bank statement from a news outlet, I would never forget to cancel another promotional subscription again.

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      • pearable@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You can get a lot of rice and beans for 75 dollars. Definitely sounds like a rough week tho

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    • Womble@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      its the Financial Times, they know exactly who they are charging that much, and those people will spend that about of money without even noticing its gone.

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  • gibmiser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Whatthefuck

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    • GluWu@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Old people pay the $1 because of course, then forget.

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  • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I make it $100 Canadian per month, plus tax. It’s not intended for us lowly poors.

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• noodlejetski@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  archive.is/1O12l

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  • Garbanzo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Still can’t read the content without pop-up ads. Hella enshitified.

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    • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Do you not have an ad blocker?

      Bruh uBlock origin is the way

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      • Garbanzo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Not on my phone, and it’s pretty shitty to need add-ons just to make content readable, so whatever

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      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m using Firefox focus’ adblocking and a PiHole and I still have three giant ads banners that prevent me from reading on Archive hahaha

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  • LetThereBeR0ck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thanks for this, the article was well worth the read

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Which does answer the question very succinctly.

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• smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Nothing wrong with paying for content? Enshittification is about something different than just being expensive or bad.

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  • csolisr@communities.azkware.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Paying for content: fair enough

    Paying almost A THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR for content: barely worth it

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    • deczzz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s a value proposition. Explain to me how you would price this for it to be fair? If you don’t like it, don’t buy it. This has nothing to do with enshitification.

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  • linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Here’s my response: [just paypal me $5 to see it]

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• AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not just a paywall, but a cookie dialog taking up more than my whole phone screen, where you have to click into it to “reject all” (and it doesn’t reject all), just to get to the paywall

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• Lycerius@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A paywall you find only after you have to manually reject cookies. Done? Okay, here’s your paywall!

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  When your only claim to fame is jamming the word “shit” into other words…

  You need to milk all that ad money out of it you can.

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  • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    FWIW Cory Doctorow was famous before coining that word. He’s done a lot of great work. You should research before saying things.

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    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So many accomplishments you couldn’t even name a single one if you tried!

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      • bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        he basically was all of EFF europe when i found him mid-2000s. he also worked boingboing for a very long time.

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      • Rolando@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow

        Awards
        
            2000 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer[91]
            2004 Locus Award for Best First Novel for Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
            2004 Sunburst Award for A Place So Foreign and Eight More
            2006 Locus Award for Best Novelette for "I, Robot"
            2007 Locus Award for Best Novelette for "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth"
            2007 The Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award[92]
        
        For Little Brother
        
            2009 John W. Campbell Memorial Award[93]
            2009 Prometheus Award[45]
            2009 Sunburst Award[46]
            2009 White Pine Award[94]
            2018 Inkpot Award[95]
        
        For Pirate Cinema
        
            2013 Prometheus Award[45]
        
        For Homeland
        
            2014 Prometheus Award[45]
        

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      • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        So hard to lift a finger to do the work yourself while your shitposting. Follow your own handle’s advice.

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  • lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Let’s skip for a moment that, as other posters already showed, Cory Doctorow was already famous before coining the word. As in: let’s pretend that his only achievement was indeed to coin the word “enshittification”.

    He noticed a rather nasty pattern in a system used by 2/3 of the world population, described it, labelled it, identified potential causes and solutions. It wasn’t just “lol lmao he jammed the word «shit» into another X-D”, even if you’re pretending otherwise. It’s a big fucking deal.

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  • linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    CD is a beast. One hell of a great guy. I have actually donated money to some of his more worthy causes before.

    Ft It’s kind of a s*** hole though. And for the paywall to abruptly block you outright not a single word not a hook, which is kind of weird because it’s a little bit against what he stands for I know it’s not apples to apples…

    I read the article. It’s kind of disappointing, somewhat of a Nothing Burger.

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• kratoz29@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It was on purpose, now you get the point clearer.

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  • linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ohh no, it’s a real article, if you have bypasspaywall clean you can read it

    I’ll give em a little credit, the article is by Cory Doctorow

    But then we have this:

    "The internet isn’t more important than the climate emergency, gender justice, racial justice, genocide or inequality. But the internet is the terrain we’ll fight those fights on. Without a free, fair and open internet, the fight is lost before it’s joined."
    

    it costs a dollar to read the article.

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    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Or 99CND monthly for this shit

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    • rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They mean “free to charge you a dollar” by “free”

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