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BewilderedOstrich t1_j76nis1 wrote

Reply to comment by ndngroomer in Netflix Deletes New Password Sharing Rules, Claims They Were Posted in Error by echosayswhat

"We invested in the product and now it's time to cash in consumer loyalty for money."

It's not a new idea. Netflix also isn't the first company to vastly over estimate just how much consumer loyalty they actually have. As the kids say, FAFO.

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RNG_HatesMe t1_j76uzwy wrote

See "the enshittification of Tik-Tok":

https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/

Step 1 - be helpful to users - purpose: gain market share

Step 2 - be helpful to content creators/ advertisers / affiliate businesses - purpose: gain revenue

Step 3 - be helpful to yourself - purpose: gain profit

(Step 4 - become irrelevant because your users AND content creators now hate you)

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