Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen

• Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s capitalism… When every CEO, Board Member, and shareholder wants a yacht, it’s literally never enough. They even created a term to describe this inevitable deterioration of every company’s product: enshittification.

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  • Snapz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s not that they all want yachts, they make enough to each buy multiple yachts. It’s just that nothing is ever enough. They don’t know what success is, so they chase the undefined feeling until they die unfulfilled. Fucking living dead and a cancer on collective humanity

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    • laurelraven@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They want nesting yachts.

      And once they have a nesting yacht, they want an even bigger yacht to nest that one in.

      It’s yachts all the way up.

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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Enshittification was coined for online services, which includes roku, but doesn’t apply to all products.

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    • laurelraven@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Whether it was coined for all products or not, it’s definitely applying to all products

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      • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The same way drowning can be used to describe all types of suffocation, sure. As long as you absolutely ignore context, words can mean anything!

        Making things worse, making them stop functioning, and making them overly restrictive are three different things.

        Enshittification: making online products and services worse over time to serve business interests.

        Planned obsolescence is making things stop working after a period of time, not just making them worse.

        I don’t know what the term is for HP printers not allowing third party ink to work or not letting a scanner in a combo printer/scanner work without ink but that also isn’t something getting worse or stopping due to an arbitrarily short end of life. Those are overly restrictive design decisions, which is different than enshittification because the printer sucked from the day it was purchased.

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    • Snapz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh course it does, what are you talking about? It applies to any product or service that can have its quality gradually and intentionally reduced in service of having its profit margin increase.

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      • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Originally coined it was meant to describe online software that started out useful and frequently free, then run into the ground when it came time to monetize it.

        Go fucking read about it.

        Enshittification, also known as crapification and platform decay, is the term used to describe the pattern in which online products and services decline in quality over time. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to users and business customers to maximize profits for shareholders.

        Just because people atarted using it to mean ‘stuff gets shitty’ doesn’t change the original meaning.

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    • 4am@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Enshittification was coined for online services, which includes roku, but doesn’t apply to all products.

      American businessmen: “Hold my beer and watch this”

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• Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  hence, punishing those who didnt get their own streaming box (that isnt roku based), or has a tv that has roku built into it.

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  • hyperhopper@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not what your original comment said. And completely disingenuous too, since the Roku streaming box is one of the most popular ones

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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Owners of smart TVs and streaming sticks running Roku OS

    The article clearly states

    Owners of smart TVs and streaming sticks running Roku OS

    It IS affecting tvs with roku built in.

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    • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      hence its PUNISHING those who bought tvs that have it BUILT IN

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      • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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