Enshittification is described by Cory Doctorow as squeezing the users and then the business partners. Basically as the company grows it’s influence it can treat everyone worse and they can’t leave. As users we’re familiar with it well, but it happens to the business partners as well in the way the comic shows
Business partners, not people putting up ads. Something like a platform becoming dominant (like apple, Spotify, Amazon, Microsoft or steam for example) and then forcing anyone who is selling stuff via the platform to pay an increasing cut to them. Competitors can try to push them out with better models for those using the app to sell goods or services but it takes a lot to remove you from that position.
Paying for advertising space never comes into the picture.
Enshittification is described by Cory Doctorow as squeezing the users and then the business partners. Basically as the company grows it’s influence it can treat everyone worse and they can’t leave. As users we’re familiar with it well, but it happens to the business partners as well in the way the comic shows
Business partners, not people putting up ads. Something like a platform becoming dominant (like apple, Spotify, Amazon, Microsoft or steam for example) and then forcing anyone who is selling stuff via the platform to pay an increasing cut to them. Competitors can try to push them out with better models for those using the app to sell goods or services but it takes a lot to remove you from that position.
Paying for advertising space never comes into the picture.