• notfromhere@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Bricking refers to making the device a brick, as in it doesn’t work anymore. At all. You don’t “brick” features.

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      2 months ago

      Okay, I see what you mean. Do you know or can you suggest a different word for this? Mine would be something like paywalling: “paybricking”, but even I don’t think it’s good. “sub-brick-tion”?

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        2 months ago

        IMHO, this wreaks of enshittification, so the word I would suggest is “enshittify” or something similar.

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          It most definitely is, I just want to have different words for hardware that is made obsolete. This isn’t even planned obsolescence IMO, this is something else. A function that seemingly has nothing to do with a live service (in similar products) is getting taken out and exchanged for something most people (presumably) don’t want. This is a scam and people should be refunded. Also Amazon should be punished severely for something like this.

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            2 months ago

            They are taking functionality away and hiding it behind a paywall. This is pretty despicable behavior. They should get an award for it. Any consumer road shows that have a Dunce Award?

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    2 months ago

    Just based on the Kindle my kid had that you had to pay to stop it being an ad platform, I can’t fathom the incentive to buy anything hardware wise in the Amazon space. You buy a thing and it’s still sitting there being a portable billboard because ‘fuck you we can’.

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    2 months ago

    It’s like a drug. I don’t understand why ads are so enticing to mega corps. Why burn dollars worth of real customers and brand clout to chase pennys worth of hypothetical eyeball time?

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      2 months ago

      Because the shareholders want a quick return on their investment, so short term profit