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[Video] Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council | A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator (www.youtube.com)
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Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to resist it. The report shows how this phenomenon affects both consumers and society at large, but that it is possible to turn the tide.

Read more on: forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree

The Norwegian Consumer Council is an independent, governmentally funded organisation that advocates for consumer’s rights. It should be easy for consumers to make sustainable choices every day. Consumers have the right to be protected against exploitation – both financially and digitally. To ensure this, we work to provide easy access to information, enforceable rights, and sufficient redress options when something goes wrong.

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[–] 7 points 8 months ago

The Norwegian have their issues, but when they get things right they really nail it.

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    [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    The accent is what makes it even more funny.

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    [–] 10 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    Ironic that to share the link while maintaining privacy you have to remove the tracker part of the YouTube URL:

    https://youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ?si=zwiYcppZhG5zR6v2

    becomes https://youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    Strange, in my post the link is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Upf_B9RLQ without tracker I think. You get the shorter youtu.be form?

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Sorry, this wasn't about you specifically. I didn't even check when I clicked it! I just meant when you share the video about enshittification (from within YouTube), it adds the tracker to the URL...

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    • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Democracy Docket: https://youtu.be/bGqB4ERsisY

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    [–] -5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I hate these made up terms that just confuse reality.

    There's no such thing as "ensshittificator" it's just a capitalist without anyone making them behave.

    To fix the problem, we need to stop letting the only metric be short term profit. And capitalism will never do that on its own.

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    [–] 20 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    The story is nearly always the same:

    develop service, gain customers, numbers go up.

    Gain more customers up to market saturation, numbers go up.

    Market saturation is reached, or nearly reached, numbers don't go up.

    Panic.

    Try to get more money: add commercials, buying rivals, reducing workforce, raising prices, reducing services, ... in short: enshitification for new growth/monetary gain

    Numbers go up... for a while, until users leave.

    Panic again.

    Make it even more shitty for short term growth.

    Repeat.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    Hence why STOCK is a thing:

    S tart up
    T rending
    O pens to stocks
    C ompany buys up
    K rumble and enshittify

    is a thing. Whenever a succesful company gets bought out by another and/or made public (IPO), it's bound to eventually enshittify. The former owner then gets to live a life on a luxury yacht and doesn't give a shit about the original ideals, if he had them.

    The problem with stocks is that according to them, the number must always go up. But this can never happen without enshittification for the customer, for that is enhrined in stocks. Profit then will be put before people.

    A diversified economy is healthy. Companies diversifying is also good, but if they grow too big and move away too much from their initial focus, the risk grows that they no longer depend on your average Joe customer, who will take much less shit. They can buy up competing companies easily. And then customers are forced to buy at theirs. Result: vendor lock-in.

    The answer to that is breaking up large companies. If there are fewer than a dozen competitors, and the company is not a society-owned enterprise (ie., a worker-owned, self-managed cooperative w/ a commitment to abolition of capitalism), then the company should be broken up or reformed.

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    • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Loved it

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    [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Boring non-informative piece that tries to distance 'enshittification' from the natural Capitalist free market behavior. Let me enhance the whole campaign properly: Fighting for your life/profit on 'Markets' causes 'Enshittification' ! There, campaign finished..

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    [–] 8 points 8 months ago*

    Say hello to the newest Microslop Executive VP!

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