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That is great and frustrating at the same time. This "enshitification" is totally a natural result of trading stuff. There is 0 difference between supermarkets putting a 5.99 price on food, or putting candies where people stay in line to pay, or deceiving people with those old ads on TV, and Facebook, Youtube and the like adding clickable ads in the middle of a video or making it play the next video automatically, or not making it clear what is a post what is an ad....
These are trade-based goods and services, and for them to sell, you have to engage in these "marketing" practices.
THIS IS NOTHING NEW!
Pretty much all companies and individuals do these in order to sell shit. All need to be biased towards their own business. Even the local small businesses are doing it. Everyone does it.
So instead of selecting a few of the most outrageous practices, call them shitty, and point the finger at them, better do 2 things:
- Understand why these products are "shitty". It is trade, the need to trade, that makes people put more ads, collect more data, etc..
... Show more...That is great and frustrating at the same time. This "enshitification" is totally a natural result of trading stuff. There is 0 difference between supermarkets putting a 5.99 price on food, or putting candies where people stay in line to pay, or deceiving people with those old ads on TV, and Facebook, Youtube and the like adding clickable ads in the middle of a video or making it play the next video automatically, or not making it clear what is a post what is an ad....
These are trade-based goods and services, and for them to sell, you have to engage in these "marketing" practices.
THIS IS NOTHING NEW!
Pretty much all companies and individuals do these in order to sell shit. All need to be biased towards their own business. Even the local small businesses are doing it. Everyone does it.
So instead of selecting a few of the most outrageous practices, call them shitty, and point the finger at them, better do 2 things:
- Understand why these products are "shitty". It is trade, the need to trade, that makes people put more ads, collect more data, etc.. Currency, data, or attention trade.
- Simply make 2 categories: trade-free and trade-based. If a product or a service is trade-free, it means it does not want anything from you, the user. Not your data, not your currency, not your attention. Therefore why would it want to make that product or service shitty?
Makes no sense.
We made a book all about that - tromsite.com/trombooks/#flipbo… and guess what? It is trade-free. Read it online or download it.
Side note....I like Louis but for fucks sake man start prioritizing a Peertube instance and post there rather than on the "shit" youtube....
#enshitfication #trade #trade-free #facebook #youtube #ads
Norwegian Government comes out swinging on enshittificationyoutube.com/watch?v=ii-D9LaitU…
That video was so genuinely funny I was laughing my ass off 🤣 Truly refreshing to see something like this in this day and age. And I gotta say the Norwegian government is pretty badass for doing this! Let's hope more governments follow suit 🤞
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
Louis Rossmann (YouTube)
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in reply to Jordan • • •@jrose @ireneista I mean, they're not going to be paid well for it for long either way if all they want to do is manage a computer doing their job for them. That's just not a job that is worth what we get paid, frankly.
The problem is they're going to take the rest of us down with them.
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In the translation business, there have always been bottom feeders charging dimes to the dollar for crappy translations. Those were the first to die when AI took hold. Then companies figured: why pay humans to make decent translations if we can have AI produce half decent translations for free?
In a few years time my yearly income from my translation side business plummeted from €10k+ to zero, so I folded my business, as did many other freelance translators. We're now left with a world that's worse for everybody. Consumers get badly translated interfaces and manuals (in the Dutch interface of a major Microsoft product I saw a button labeled "onbewolkt" = "uncloudy" - it took me a while to figure out that the button must have been labeled "clear" in English and translated from a totally unrelated context, a mistake a human technical translator wouldn't make), skilled translators fled to other work, enshittification all around.
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