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Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? (www.theguardian.com)
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Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and what we can do about it

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[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 0 points 10 months ago

when merchants raise their prices on Amazon, they are required to raise their prices everywhere else, even on their own direct-sales stores.

Not exactly true. If you see the price for an item, this means it is the lowest retail price.

If you see "see options", that means a seller can sell it to you, but they are selling in cheaper somewhere else.

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Enshittification

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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.

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