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SpaceLifeForm<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@MikeElgan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>MikeElgan</span></a></span> </p><p>Aka, paying the Danegeld.</p><p>The ad broker industry has a vested interest to promote this thinking.</p><p>It is better to move than pay.</p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danegeld" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danege</span><span class="invisible">ld</span></a></p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Danegeld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Danegeld</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Ads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ads</span></a></p>
Cory Doctorow<p>If you don't pay the <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/danegeld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>danegeld</span></a>, your product will be pushed down by the inferior products whose sellers are only too happy to pay ransom.</p><p>It's a system where everybody loses - except monopoly ecommerce platforms, who enshittify everything and rake it in.</p><p>14/</p>
Cory Doctorow<p>Then, it stopped showing publishers' content to their own subscribers, extorting them to pay to "boost" their posts in order to reach people who had explicitly asked to hear from them.</p><p>For users, this meant that their feeds were increasingly populated with payola-boosted content from advertisers and pay-to-play publishers who paid Facebook's <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Danegeld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Danegeld</span></a> to reach them. </p><p>13/</p>
Cory Doctorow<p>Every merchant you patronize has to charge more - or reduce quality, or both - in order to pay this <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Danegeld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Danegeld</span></a> to two of the largest, most profitable companies in the world. Visa/Mastercard have hiked their fees by *40 percent* since the pandemic's start. Forty. Fucking. *Percent*. Tell me again how <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/greedflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>greedflation</span></a> isn't real?</p><p>15/</p>
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