I'm a professional suspicious bastard and I've nearly gotten caught by a few, and Cory Doctorow (a literal expert on this) got hit earlier this year: doctorow.medium.com/how-i-got-sc... It's a trillion dollar a year industry and the operators are extremely sophisticated.
And why AI will make it worse.
Oligopole, die inzwischen überall in der Wirtschaft sind und sie zerstören. Gerne mal Cory Doctorow dazu lesen.
basically the approach cory doctorow took with his YA except with the intention of much further reach
davidgraeber.institute/there-never-... I listened to Doctorow on the enshittification of the internet on Oct. 3rd and found it excellent.
In this session of “The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World…” reading group ( OCTOBER 3 / 2024, 8 pm GMT), we will be joined by Cory Doctorow and discuss Enshittification. Enshittification: Was There E...
Prime's enshittified advertising https://buff.ly/3TVfd7l Prime's gonna add more ads. They brought in ads in January, & people didn't cancel their Prime subscriptions, so Amazon figures that they can make Prime even worse & make more money. ← by Cory @Doctorow.
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
And if you want to learn more about how this process has played out across multiple industries, give "Chokepoint Capitalism" by Cory Doctorow ( @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy ) a read.
Thank Corey Doctorow; I got this one from one of his blogs - though I didn't remember where he got it.
20 years ago was 2004. I remember going to some conference and being completely mystified why Cory Doctorow & his friends were going on about blogging...I was already on a few email lists where people posted all day long so I didn't see the point in going to a web site to read people's brain dumps.
Cory Doctorow With a Plan to Halt the Internet's Enshittification https://hackaday.com/2024/10/03/supercon-2023-cory-doctorow-with-an-audacious-plan-to-halt-the-internets-enshittification-and-throw-it-into-reverse/
Author Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) will be speaking at Eagle Eye books near Decatur on October 23. https://eagleeyebooks.com/event/2024-10-23/cory-doctorow#books#DecaturGA#Atlanta#DekalbGA