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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Enshittification of Plex Is Kicking Off, Starting with Free Roku Users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Enshitification is the specific process of capturing a supplier/consumer market through short term subsidies, squeezing out the competition, and then squeezing the suppliers and consumers directly.

  Increasing prices alone isn’t enshitification. But increasing prices after sustaining artificially low prices for the purpose of creating a monopoly or quasi monopoly is enshitification.

  Plex most definitely was providing a good quality product but was not generating revenue, and has little to no competition (Jellyfin is a bit debatable) as a result. Was it intentional or just incompetence? Hard to prove either way. I’d say the biggest argument against enshitification is that Plex is mostly a product instead of market space hosting suppliers and consumers, like Google, YouTube, AirBNB, Uber, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Ending that completely': Facebook gets rid of fact-checkers in wake of Trump's election⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The generation that warned their children about brain rot have succumbed to that brain rot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California Approves Privacy Bill Requiring Opt-Out Tools⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  GDPR gave us the cookie banner that both consumers and website owners hate. Legislation absolutely can affect change.