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vriska1@lemm.ee to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago

Google’s Plan To DRM The Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood For

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vriska1@lemm.ee to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago
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The grand old enshittification curve strikes again. Remember, as stated by Cory Doctorow, the process of enshittification entails these steps: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse t…
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    Luckily it’s Google. They’ll release it, half arse it for two years then cancel it without warning.

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      Not this one. Collecting data and serving ads is their core business. They cancel and change products that enable the core, but never the gist of their business.

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        Will have to see…

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      I’d say that depends on how profitable it is - services like AdSense and gmail are still going strong some 20 years after being introduced!

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      Ha. Never a truer summary of Google’s competence in anything other than spamming adverts at you.

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        But this serves that core competence of spamming adverts at you

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      Hopefully…

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