awful.systems
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
@friend_of_satan@lemmy.world to Enshittification@lemmy.world • 10 months ago

Amazon is bricking primary feature on $160 Echo device after 1 year

arstechnica.com

external-link
message-square
28
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • news@lemmy.world
189
external-link

Amazon is bricking primary feature on $160 Echo device after 1 year

arstechnica.com

@friend_of_satan@lemmy.world to Enshittification@lemmy.world • 10 months ago
message-square
28
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • news@lemmy.world
Smart display will soon default to showing ads after three hours.
  • @solsangraal@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    6•10 months ago

    what use do these things have in the work place? unless amazon sent them for free because guaranteed captive audience for ads?

    • @unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      6•10 months ago

      Sorry… The company I work for has a contract with that company named after a giant river. We are wzrehousing, packaging, shipping, all that shit. Not sure why any of this is happening.

      • @VaalaVasaVarde@sopuli.xyz
        link
        fedilink
        5•10 months ago

        When do people learn and stick with the smaller tributaries?

        • NoIWontPickAName
          link
          fedilink
          2•10 months ago

          Just don’t go chasing waterfalls

Enshittification@lemmy.world

!enshittification@lemmy.world

remote_follow_modal_title

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !enshittification@lemmy.world

What is enshittification?

The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source

The lifecycle of Big Internet

We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.

Embrace, extend and extinguish

We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.

  • 1 user / day
  • 3 users / week
  • 760 users / month
  • 3.43K users / 6 months
  • 2.7K subscribers
  • 93 Posts
  • 1.11K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • @hydra@lemmy.world
  • @Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
  • BE: 0.19.3
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org