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A link to an article about enshittification that's just a solid paywall....
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
This would be a meme by itself:
SIXTY NINE EUROS PER MONTH HOLY FUCK
EDIT SEVENTY FLIPPIN FIVE USD
Financial times has always been always expensive AF because it's made for rich investors.
FT is for suckers. Barron's is the better news source.
Only 420 euros if you sign up for a whole year
And not just any paywall, a NINETY-NINE CANADIAN DOLLARS PER MONTH ONE. Granted the first month is a single dollar, but still, that's a grand total of C$1090 A YEAR.
Yeah, it's $75 USD a month. Who the fuck do they think they are charging that much? I get 1Gbps internet for less than that. That's 2 weeks worth of groceries. That's YouTube Premium, Disney+, Netflix, and Max combined.
Absolutely no way an online news outlet is providing even close to a quarter of that $75 in value.
I would be lucky to get a week off of that. If all I ate was instant ramen and stovetop pasta for every single meal, I might be able to stretch it to two weeks.
The outlet is called Financial Times, and—if you think about it—they certainly do an excellent job in helping individuals manage their finances correctly. After seeing a $75 charge on my bank statement from a news outlet, I would never forget to cancel another promotional subscription again.
You can get a lot of rice and beans for 75 dollars. Definitely sounds like a rough couple weeks tho
its the Financial Times, they know exactly who they are charging that much, and those people will spend that about of money without even noticing its gone.
Whatthefuck
Old people pay the $1 because of course, then forget.
I make it $100 Canadian per month, plus tax. It's not intended for us lowly poors.
https://archive.is/1O12l
Still can't read the content without pop-up ads. Hella enshitified.
Do you not have an ad blocker?
Bruh uBlock origin is the way
Not on my phone, and it's pretty shitty to need add-ons just to make content readable, so whatever
Firefox+ublock origin for android, for iPhone I have no clue
iOS: Wipr takes care of everything. Even stuff Firefox Focus and my PiHole doesn’t.
Adguard does a good job on iOS.
I’m using Firefox focus’ adblocking and a PiHole and I still have three giant ads banners that prevent me from reading on Archive hahaha
I've only got uBlock Origin running and I don't see any ads
Something's got to be misconfigured on your end friend
Firefox focus isn’t as good as ublock origin.
It’s better than nothing.
Wipr took care of all of those banner ads.
Thanks for this, the article was well worth the read
Which does answer the question very succinctly.
Not just a paywall, but a cookie dialog taking up more than my whole phone screen, where you have to click into it to “reject all” (and it doesn’t reject all), just to get to the paywall
A paywall you find only after you have to manually reject cookies. Done? Okay, here's your paywall!
It was on purpose, now you get the point clearer.
Ohh no, it's a real article, if you have bypasspaywall clean you can read it
I'll give em a little credit, the article is by Cory Doctorow
But then we have this:
it costs a dollar to read the article.
Or 99CND monthly for this shit
They mean “free to charge you a dollar” by “free”
Nothing wrong with paying for content? Enshittification is about something different than just being expensive or bad.
Paying for content: fair enough
Paying almost A THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR for content: barely worth it
That's a value proposition. Explain to me how you would price this for it to be fair? If you don't like it, don't buy it. This has nothing to do with enshitification.
Here's my response: [just paypal me $5 to see it]
When your only claim to fame is jamming the word "shit" into other words...
You need to milk all that ad money out of it you can.
FWIW Cory Doctorow was famous before coining that word. He's done a lot of great work. You should research before saying things.
So many accomplishments you couldn't even name a single one if you tried!
he basically was all of EFF europe when i found him mid-2000s. he also worked boingboing for a very long time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow
Yeah, I saw those on Wikipedia...
Honestly the only impressive bit was an xkcd character is based on him.
Like, you know it's not amount the amount of awards, it's the quality?
Like those Prometheus awards, those are just for libertarians and they have like five winners a year.
And most people have zero.
I don't think you understand how many awards there are for writing...
Do you know about any of those or do you assume any award is prestigious?
I don't think you understand that most people (like you too) have zero buddy.
So hard to lift a finger to do the work yourself while you're shitposting. Follow your own handle's advice.
Let's skip for a moment the fact that, as other posters highlighted, Cory Doctorow was already famous before coining the word. Let's pretend that his only achievement was indeed the concept of enshittification.
Even then, it's a big fucking deal. He noticed a rather nasty pattern in a system used by 2/3 of the world population, described it, labelled it, identified potential causes and solutions. It wasn't just "lol lmao he jammed the word «shit» into another X-D".
CD is a beast. One hell of a great guy. I have actually donated money to some of his more worthy causes before.
Ft It's kind of a s*** hole though. And for the paywall to abruptly block you outright not a single word not a hook, which is kind of weird because it's a little bit against what he stands for I know it's not apples to apples...
I read the article. It's kind of disappointing, somewhat of a Nothing Burger.