Online services that allow advertising tend to pass through atransformation known as"enshittification".First, the service shows users what they want to see. Then it showsusers with high priority whatever businesses pay it to show them.Finally, it shows users with even higher priority whatever will keepthem spending more time on the site — at which point the users andthe advertisers hate it but feel they don't have an option to refuse.I do refuse. It just happens that these disservices tend to requireusers to run nonfree client software, and I refuse to do it. Thus,by defending my control over my computing, I avoid the shit too.I think that the key to ending enshittification is to pass laws tochange the funding model.