I’ll be fucked if I have my search history associated with my payment information. Not that I have any weird shit in there, just that I know at some point what I look for and buy will get cross-correlated and sold to the highest bidder. Plus, data breaches. And bittorrent searches.
We really need a Internet native anonymous payment protocol yesterday.
I use crypto to avoid this exact thing
How do you use a public ledger for privacy? Are you just using Monero or something?
I use monero. Since all kagi takes is bitcoin i use one of those instant swaps to do a conversion.
Gotcha, thanks! So you can just swap Monero for Bitcoin without going through KYC stuff?
Oh, quite easily. I use trocador.app
Interesting, thanks! I’ve only vaguely followed crypto stuff, so not really too familiar with how it gets used day-to-day
I completely agree with his points but enshittification is such a cringey word
Yeah. Not really ideal to giving a serious talk or something. Though there really isn’t a single other word describing the growth-phase-to-monetization-phase shift that I’m aware of.
“Growth phase to monetization phase shift” is kind of awkwardly long.
Its not just growth to monetization, its next stage of 20% profit growth year after year, in this case in the end, sooner or later, one way or another, companies end up having to do bad things. So most companies end up doing bad things and society has to live with largely bad companies.
I wish there was a better way.
The welfare harms from monopolies are hardly a new discovery. The “growth phase” is called - in some contexts, at least - the “predation stage” followed by the “recoupment phase”.
I disagree. My parents, big Roku users, wondering why Roku was becoming hostile to its customers with policy updates that require a remote to agree to, ads coming through cables (HDMI patent), were able to understand the nature of the company at the moment through the explanation of enshittification.
Cringe as it may be, nearly everyone understands what it means.
They can downvote you all they want but they can’t make you wrong. It’a especially bad when people misuse it.
