Another great deep-dive from @pluralistic into #enshittification viewed through the lens of #Amazon Prime #video .
https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/03/mother-may-i/#minmax
Cory notes the use of signing up for mailing lists as a tactic in the spiral of fuckery:
"The industry says, "Will you allow this many 'sign up to our mailing list' interrupters, pop ups, pop unders, autoplaying videos and other stuff that users hate but shareholders benefit from" and the ad-blocker makes a counteroffer: "How about 'nah?'"
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Some sites, for example @404mediaco*, specifically use the email login window. even for free content, as an anti- #AI scraping mechanism, after #perplexity_ai was caught reproducing news articles whole hog.
What was once an offensive tactic to the end-user is now a defensive maneuver against exploitation from the #plagiarism factories.
It's just more collateral damage in the spiral of fuckery.
*I subscribe; you should, too.