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==Examples== | ==Examples== | ||
===E-commerce=== | ===E-commerce=== | ||
In Doctorow's original post, he discussed the practices of Amazon. The online retailer initially drew in users with products sold below cost and free shipping. Once its userbase was well established, more sellers began to sell their products through Amazon. Finally, Amazon began to add fees to increase profits. In 2023, over 45% of the sale price of items went to Amazon in the form of various fees. Amazon also allows sellers the ability to push their listing higher in search results via its paid Sponsored Products program. Doctorow described advertisement within Amazon as a payola scheme in which sellers bid against one another for search-ranking preference, and said that the first five pages of a search for "cat beds" were half advertisements | In Doctorow's original post, he discussed the practices of Amazon. The online retailer initially drew in users with products sold below cost and free shipping. Once its userbase was well established, more sellers began to sell their products through Amazon. Finally, Amazon began to add fees to increase profits. In 2023, over 45% of the sale price of items went to Amazon in the form of various fees. Amazon also allows sellers the ability to push their listing higher in search results via its paid Sponsored Products program. Doctorow described advertisement within Amazon as a payola scheme in which sellers bid against one another for search-ranking preference, and said that the first five pages of a search for "cat beds" were half advertisements | ||
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===Software=== | ===Software=== | ||
[[Adobe]]... | '''[[Adobe]]...''' | ||
'''[[Microsoft Windows]]:''' | |||
- Search degradation. The search files menu has degraded over the years in favor of searching online with Bing to provide more advertisements as web results. | * Forced Microsoft account sign-in. Starting with Windows 10 and further enforced in Windows 11, preventing offline use and increase the telemetry data collection. | ||
* Built-in advertisements. Despite Windows being a paid-for software, the OS will contain advertisements in the start menu, lock screen, notifications about Microsoft 365, OneDrive, Edge, and more. Even if disabled, ads will reappear with the following OS update. | |||
* Dark patterns in applications. Edge will always ask to become the default browser, warnings about switching away. OneDrive prompts dialogues to "protect your files" which require a upload to the cloud with a OneDrive account. Applications often do not have a "never ask again" button, only "Try for free" or "maybe later" such as in Microsoft365. | |||
* Increased telemetry. Telemetry settings are always enabled by default and they provide limited ability to disable them. | |||
* Forced updates. Updates cannot be permanently disabled, you can only disable them for up to 4 weeks. The OS will force the download as soon as possible when the countdown timer has expired. | |||
* Bundled software bloat. Preinstalled Microsoft applications that aren't vital to the functionalities of the OS and do not request the user if they should be added. | |||
* Search degradation. The search files menu has degraded over the years in favor of searching online with Bing to provide more advertisements as web results. | |||
===Video Games=== | ===Video Games=== | ||
[[Unity Engine runtime fee|Unity]]... | '''[[Unity Engine runtime fee|Unity]]...''' | ||
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===Learning Applications=== | ===Learning Applications=== | ||
[[Duolingo]] | '''[[Duolingo]]''' | ||
==Further reading== | ==Further reading== | ||