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"Analog" has been used to say "the older, pre-computer version" since for decades now. It's fine.

I mean they're still not giving it back, right? It's an important gesture, but it also doesn't really change anything.

Not to be confused with "airway bacon", a cause of asphyxiation.

No. Enshittification imho requires intent. When Google makes you watch twelve ads before a YT video, that's enshittification. If SEO ruins search engines as a whole, that's not enshittification.

Even in glorious Europe with socialized healthcare*, it's very easy to rack up 100k or more in liabilities. Possibly decades of lost wages, improving their homes accessibility, caretakers, damages for pain and suffering and so on. E.g., German law mandates a minimum of 7.5 million Euros of coverage.

The US healthcare system sucks, but, completely independently, these coverages just aren't enough.

*Details vary.

But that's still not what they said in their original comment. They were directly linking Google's search becoming worse to Google's monopoly, while the same is happening to all other providers as well, no matter how niche they are.

Sure we can tranform this into some handwavy "capitalism bad" statement (and I agree), but that's not what they said and has basically no substance.

Enshittification isn't when companies make their products worse on purpose, for the sake of making it worse. The goal isn't to get worse, the goal is to maintain competitive force and increase profit margins by way of strategically "optimizing" previously good products to squeeze ever more profit.

Exactly. Google isn't intentionally delivering shitty search results to maintain a competitive force or increase profit margins, but because they're fighting a constant battle against people trying (and succeeding) to outsmart their algorithms.

The comment I replied to was specifically talking how Google was attempting to deliver a good product while they were small and is now leveraging it's market position to deliver worse search reults.

And that's just wrong, it has nothing to do with Google burning through venture capital back in the days or being the most popular search engine nowadays. Sure, the ads are annoying, they take all your data and all that could be reasonably called enshittification, but the crappy search results aren't intentional.

This. Google is losing the fight against SEO (and now AI), they're not intentionally giving you bad search results. Bing, DDG, etc. are all facing the same struggles.

Butterfly meme:

Literally everything bad vaguely related to tech

Lemmy users: "Is this enshittification?"

In later trials, drugs aren't compared against placebo, but a standard therapy regimen.