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Digital life
fromMedium
15 hours ago

The evolution of Youtube: How every platform evolves into an ad machine

Digital platforms increasingly prioritize profit over users, enshittifying services by incrementally rolling out ads that degrade user experience and shift value to businesses.
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fromMedium
15 hours ago

The evolution of Youtube: How every platform evolves into an ad machine

My phone was a few meters away in the living room and I rushed over like I had forgotten a burning turkey in the oven to make sure that I got to the phone before the second ad started playing. I tapped that lower-right hand skip button and the tension in my body temporarily melted away as I made my way back to the chore and continued listening to my podcast.
UX design
Digital life
fromwww.npr.org
3 weeks ago

A theory why the internet is going down the toilet

Enshittification describes a predictable platform lifecycle: early user-first incentives shift over time toward extraction by advertisers and merchants, degrading user experience.
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Artificial intelligence
fromWIRED
3 weeks ago

Can AI Avoid the Enshittification Trap?

AI recommendation systems risk degradation when companies prioritize profit, replicating platforms' pattern of diminishing user value once market dominance is achieved.
E-Commerce
fromSlate Magazine
1 month ago

Your Favorite Tech Products Are Getting Worse. Here's How We Can Fix It.

Amazon leverages platform dominance and pricing tactics to create illusory Prime Day deals, exploiting shoppers and sellers and driving consumer backlash.
Digital life
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Online platforms systematically degrade by prioritizing business customers and extracting value, turning user-focused services into monetized, degraded products in a predictable three-stage process.
US politics
fromIndependent
3 months ago

Colin Murphy: Yes, things are getting worse... and we even have a word for it now

Enshittification describes the detrimental decline of systems like the internet and global affairs, worsened by leaders like Donald Trump, with Ireland facing unique vulnerabilities.
fromSubstack
3 months ago

The General Theory of Enshittification

"Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die."
Tech industry
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