The grand old enshittification curve strikes again. Remember, as stated by Cory Doctorow, the process of enshittification entails these steps: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse t…
    • @pqdinfoEnglish
      6•1 year ago

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      • @OdoEnglish
        6•1 year ago

        Before Gmail, my old Hotmail account had a whopping 2MB of storage, and others were similarly small. Gmail was a few GB right from the start, forcing the rest to compete and offer more storage.

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          1•1 year ago

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    • snooggums
      5•1 year ago

      Making quality stuff for free does not mean they were not doing shady things in the background.

      I have no plan to boycott Google or anything, but they were nwver benevolent and usage has always been a tradeoff of data tracking for convenience.