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>The concept of "value" for consumers has been completely twisted and I am not looking forward to seeing where this race to the bottom will end up. For a lot o
by the_snooze 5y ago
>The concept of "value" for consumers has been completely twisted and I am not looking forward to seeing where this race to the bottom will end up.
For a lot of consumer tech companies, it's less about providing value to consumers and more about extracting value from them. Between vendor lock-in, privacy violations, and arbitrary one-sided changes in service, it's straight out of an abusive partner's playbook.
- Nextgrid 5y agoA lot of consumer tech companies' entire business model is "growth and engagement" which is basically arbitrage between what the investors/advertisers will pay and what it costs them to produce this "engagement". Any useful output produced by the system is a mere side-effect and the bare minimum necessary for to get the victims to "engage".