Dominik Schwind

A nice companion piece to the "modernity is stupid" article I bookmarked before.

the Internet’s business model is betrayal. Every mature social media platform has betrayed us. Every big search engine has betrayed us.

Yes. And double yes:

And don’t tell me about enshittification, that is a thought-terminating cliche that does not actually perform useful or interesting analysis and is little more than the new “just use linux” of annoying Fediverse reply guys.

Finally

Money ruins everything

Oh no.

I might still be blocking ads, to be honest.

"Grift shift" is a lovely term

The headline is more a question than an answer but his analysis is spot on.

Sounds like a good explanation and roughly how I understand the expression, too.

As large platforms emerged — whether they were for search, social, or e-commerce — the deal was that they would make our digital lives easier and, in exchange, we would give them our data, attention, and, increasingly, actual money.