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As per title, I've been thinking, Tech has been seeing a downturn due to investor money divesting, perhaps that's part of the source of pressure for crackdowns on piracy, in addition to youtube restricting ad blockers, and other enshittification around other streaming media (whether it is behind reddit's enshittification is perhaps a different convo)

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[–] heartlessevil@lemmy.one 38 points 1 year ago

Yes, combined with rising federal interest rates. It's not a coincidence that the internet suddenly got significantly worse all at once.

[–] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 24 points 1 year ago

Yeah, you've hit the nail on the head there. Welcome to late stage capitalism.

[–] harsh3466@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

I hope this burns down web 2.0 and the centralized bullshit we've been dealing with for the last decade+.

[–] CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago

Not too surprising. I wonder how much worse it will get though by the end of the year.

[–] worfamerryman@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

What piracy crackdowns are you talking about?