Oh, man, the opportunity to explore what humanity must do or show in order to be allowed to continue participating in a “higher level” of inter-galactic society that this opens up! I guess that’d be my hypothetical “make it or break it” issue if such a show was made: do they explore this issue, and how well do they tell this part of the story?

I just switch to desktop mode and never had any problem…

I’ve always figured a company will go public before enshitification truly gets underway. It’s kinda the first step of the process.

I guess my argument is that until that pressure to appease the stockholders exists, there’s not a whole lot of motive to justify enshitification. It’s hard for me to imagine the process happening any other way.

So, I suppose you can count my vote as being that going public will likely come first. Just my two cents, though, and I don’t know anything anyway! :-p

I’m a little bit confused by your post. Publicly-traded companies, by and large, place extraordinary emphasis on short term, quarter by quarter profit. Seems like a very strong contender for the root cause if the issue?

Enshitification is about monetization, getting more money from the same customer base.

Doesn’t this statement support publicly traded status being a riot cause, though?

I must assume I’m misunderstanding your argument…?

Was it? You proud of those words?

Cause everyone else here thinks you’re an idiot…

Completely untrue. I’m not afraid of news outlets. I’m not afraid of what the “others” have to say

Pretty sure you’re talking about yourself here, champ.

Or, and I know this is really out there, but maybe, just maybe, facts don’t actually care about your feelings.

They are focused on the immediate profit, not long term; no publicly traded corporation focuses on long term, not anymore. If it increases their bottom line to sell my data, they will.

What they have that’s unique is their particular algorithm for targeting. They don’t need to keep my info to themselves to profit off said algorithm.

In short, I don’t believe you. shrug Nothing personal…