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Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Continued expansion or ever-increasing profits is a definitive characteristic of the system though. Enshittification is just the latest feature it found, for software-based companies.

One could also argue that enshittification is independent to software, like diluting juice or other "innovations" that products received...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Yeah, but compare even Henry Ford, who was not exactly a socialist icon, when he said:

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: make the best quality goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

...to the 'fuck you I got mine' attitude that is utterly pervasive today. Definitely feels like something other than just the evolution of a broken system. It has changed in character as well as in scope.