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  • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.nettomemes@lemmy.worldAre we there yet?
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    17 days ago

    I’ve got ads and tracking pretty tamped down on my own devices, but it’s honestly terrifying how often when I hang out with friends who have non-FOSS phones or Windows running in the room that Amazon is trying to sell me the topics of the conversations we were having. And it’s really hard to have a conversation with someone who isn’t as sensitive to this, to tell them that their devices and software are compromising my privacy, and to get them to understand that as the consent issue it truly is.







  • It’s very nearly a synonym for value extraction. I guess specifically it refers to the consequences of value extraction on the web, but really I think Doctorow’s whole goal with that campaign was to make people aware of how awful venture capital and value extraction really are for us. I’m less concerned with preserving a canonical definition of enshittification as I am getting people aware of the consequences of capitalist financialization. As a well-published author himself, I’m sure Doctorow is well prepared for figurative death of the author :P