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Enshittification
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What is enshittification?
The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source
The lifecycle of Big Internet
We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.
Embrace, extend and extinguish
We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.
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If you're going to spend €40, you might as well get a Raspberry Pi and setup a PiHole. You cam also run your own Mastodon server and Lemmy instance on it if you set them all using Docker.
You really should still use both, have a Pihole and use uBlock. For one, if you have a mobile computer like a laptop or tablet, you may take it with you where you don’t have your Pihole (unless you set up a VPN at home which still should have uBlock Origin). There’s also some ads that the Pihole can miss or websites like YouTube where uBlock Origin is nearly flawless in the browser.
Though many modern ISPs make it difficult with how they lock down their routers they supply you, making it difficult to set up a PiHole without some changes to your network. But that’s another topic for another conversation…
Tailscale makes it realy easy to connect your pihole remotely (it even has a guide on how to set it up here), and has the aded bonus that you can get it to point to your pihole's DNS without having to touch any router settings if that has been an issue for you :)