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Companies that prioritize recurring revenue over user experience are engaging in enshittification.
Their wordsHowever, a few years back, Eero fell victim to every corporation's favorite thing: recurring revenue. Eero started quietly pushing Eero Plus, a subscription service that I was largely uninterested in. Over the years, this has gotten more and more aggressive, and, annoyingly, more and more has been gated behind Eero Plus.
Their wordsSynology will be restricting features for those who do not use Synology-branded drives. Drives that are bog-standard enterprise hard drives, possibly with some custom firmware in them. Why? For more revenue.
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Their wordsI think it boils down to two simple facts: IMDB does not respect its users, which it demonstrates in new and fantastic ways every time you use it Callsheet does.
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