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The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee...::We analyze a new study where the EUIPO suggests online piracy is on the increase within the European Union.

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[-] Clbull@lemmy.world 86 points 1 year ago

It's not just streaming services that have turned to shit. Society as a whole has been enshittified because shareholders and directors are chasing the dollar.

Reddit started charging out of their butt for API access, and had killed off 95% of third party apps in the process.

YouTube is downright unusable without a Premium subscription or uBlock Origin. Every content creator meanwhile risks demonetization if their videos are too kid-friendly or too inappropriate, and now have to fill half their videos with endorsements for shitty mobile games like Raid: Shadow Legends if they want to break even.

Porn sites are now astroturfed by e-girls shilling their $20/month OnlyFans pages.

Online dating apps are now a carbon copy of one another, are owned by an oligopoly of big corporations and charge you the same price of four WoW subscriptions for basic features like unlimited swipes, seeing who liked you, etc.

Even real life sucks now. Enjoy paying 70% of your monthly income to pay off some filthy rich landlord's mortgage while the rich continue to snap up properties, all while the wealthy continue to brainwash sheep into voting against their best interests.

[-] tal@lemmy.today 17 points 1 year ago

Society as a whole has been enshittified

Porn sites are now astroturfed by e-girls shilling their $20/month OnlyFans pages.

It was a veritable new Dark Age for humanity.

[-] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

A symptom's a symptom.

[-] arekkusu@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 year ago

I don't think sex workers being paid better is comparable to what megacorporations have been doing to the internet for the past 10 years.

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Porn sites offer the best free user service on the Internet with the exception of Wikipedia. I don't know what you mean with that point, honestly.

Xnxx has 1 uhm... YouTube would call it shelf... with egirl ads on the first page of your search and that's it. If you proceed directly to page 2, you will never see it. I don't even block that element, it's easy to ignore.

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