Oh, fuck them. Oh no, we just can’t exploit the guys who only setup shop way the fuck out west so they could (checks notes)…ignore early copyright law. Wait a minute…

At least, that’s the allegation I’ve heard, not it served believable.

Did you think this sounded…clever?

Because it doesn’t even make any sense

You have to scroll down to see the settings button, but yeah, hell with that crap.

I vote they choke indefinitely. But not to death; I want them to die of old age, spending decade upon decade choking endlessly.

This type of parasitic, even sociopathic behavior is directly rewarded in capitalism, though. Kinda figure that’s all they meant.

Also, it capitalism is anywhere, it’s everywhere. Or this is at least true as long as the United States is in the picture…

“Have you tried turning it off and back on again?”

But, no, that is good advice. I haven’t seen mention of full shutdown of the laptop, either, but mostly been skimming the comments so…

Ok, that made my morning. I hate my phone

You actually have the answer in front of you.

Yes, people signed up for stabbing(streaming) services, with their monthly fees, to get away from ads. So, the corporations start putting ads in the low tier, meaning you have to pay even more every month to start free from ads.

Didn’t forget: “good” for the business is “bad” for you. That’s pretty much baked into the very foundations of capitalism.

Your couldn’t throw us a bone by including a link? 😉

That’s okay, I got you covered.

I’ve always figured a company will go public before enshitification truly gets underway. It’s kinda the first step of the process.

I guess my argument is that until that pressure to appease the stockholders exists, there’s not a whole lot of motive to justify enshitification. It’s hard for me to imagine the process happening any other way.

So, I suppose you can count my vote as being that going public will likely come first. Just my two cents, though, and I don’t know anything anyway! :-p

I’m a little bit confused by your post. Publicly-traded companies, by and large, place extraordinary emphasis on short term, quarter by quarter profit. Seems like a very strong contender for the root cause if the issue?

Enshitification is about monetization, getting more money from the same customer base.

Doesn’t this statement support publicly traded status being a riot cause, though?

I must assume I’m misunderstanding your argument…?