Komoot Acquired: History Says This Won't End Well

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Enshittification@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

And now things start to make a bit more sense. Earlier this week I posted on the news that Komoot …

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Oh fuck.

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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

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