I feel like this is a good summary and timeline of enshittification so far. Maybe even a good intro for anyone who hasn’t been keeping up with how to describe what’s happening over the last 30-40 years.
@pluralistic I’d also like to add to the somewhat meaningless individual but also therapeutic ways to fight enshittification is to report all ads as spam. That’s what I do and that’s what they are.
I mean, there IS such a thing as a legit exception - if you send me your street address with an order for a book, it's legitimate for me to pass that on to a shipping house to they can get it in the mail to you.
Or if I switch email list providers and export your email address from the old one and import it into a new one.
No one would want enjoy the bombardment of consent requests that would be needed if we didn't have this kind of legit use exemption.
The problem is really an enforcement one. If EU enforcers had fined a hundred companies out of existence in the first year of the GDPR for doing bullshit "legitimate exemption" processing ("pour encouragez les autres"), the rest of the industry would have colored within the lines.
Except that's not right: if you give me your postal address, you're letting *me* process your address. When I contract with a third party to ship your parcel, *they* process your information. That's not a consented use, it's a legitimate exception.
Amazon (which has its own logistics network) doesn't have to hand your address to a third party for a delivery, but I do - so I need the legitimate use exemption as a safe harbor.
@pluralistic @jeremymuller I think we're mixing things up here - I'm not saying it isn't an example at all; I'm saying not as far as cookies on a website go. Not even on amazon dot com; if I'm browsing they don't need to know or process shit about me & by the time I order there's a consent checkbox with the order form.
I can't think of an example where the exception is needed as a universal cookie for any website visitor. I'd be glad to be enlightened - but also, see my other point.
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It seems a fine example of a task which a computer/program should accomplish very well, automatically after once being instructed.
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