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What's a service you’ve been using forever that hasn’t enshitified? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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We all know the struggle of beloved services slowly going downhill. What’s one service, tool, or website you’ve been using for years that’s still great and hasn’t turned to crap?

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[–] 184 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Wikipedia.

Though I could do without the endless donation blockups.

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  • [–] 104 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I can forgive Wikipedia and Internet Archive for the spam. Both sites are incredibly valuable and completely ad-free.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    They are one of the highest achievements of humanity, imho, that even make me feel proud to be a human.

    It's hard not to try to support them.
    The "spam" is for them to operate, not maximise their profits.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It's not that simple and transparent actually. Wikipedia doesn't really need those donations to operate. They have money reserves for many years of expenses. I don't have a great source right now but this article looks decent. I didn't read the whole thing though.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Gotcha, it's another anti-European (and anti-USA), anti-male, quasi-Marxist organization. This is what your donations to Wikipedia are going to. Wikipedia spends more money on left-wing causes than actually running an encyclopedia, and by a very long-shot.

    Well shit, I guess I'll start donating

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    It's not just the spam, there is other enshittification like the endless co-option with AI companies and private info disclosure (aka surveillance capitalism) under the self-serving excuse of being anonymized or aggregated.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Just found these custom ad block filters. Seems to be working so far

    wikipedia.org##.nag-trigger
wikipedia.org###centralNotice
wikipedia.org##[id$=“banner-nag”]
wikipedia.org###frb-inline
wikipedia.org##.cn-fundraising
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