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Sigh.
Is it so hard to just be an ethical company? Must every product and service become enshittified?
Couldn't they have just made these "features" an add-on that the user can choose to install (and agree to a separate ToS to use), rather than have it baked into the browser code?
There was a time when you could use the same piece of software or service for decades without worry. Now, I feel like I'm replacing software every few months because of enshittification.
Well, assuming by company you mean a for-profit entity, then yes.
I agree with you. I don't think there are any ethical way to make money. You always have to exploit someone or something affecting third parties. Yes, you could reduce to minimal expression, but it will never going to be zero. And at the end, I think this is the problem with most forms of life, the predatory model. With some plants and bacteria exception. But yeah, nature knows nothing about justice because it is a human construct, but still...