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What's a service you’ve been using forever that hasn’t enshitified? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 week ago by Davy_Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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We all know the struggle of beloved services slowly going downhill. What’s one service, tool, or website you’ve been using for years that’s still great and hasn’t turned to crap?

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[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 176 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Wikipedia.

Though I could do without the endless donation blockups.

[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 102 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can forgive Wikipedia and Internet Archive for the spam. Both sites are incredibly valuable and completely ad-free.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

They are one of the highest achievements of humanity, imho, that even make me feel proud to be a human.

It's hard not to try to support them.
The "spam" is for them to operate, not maximise their profits.

[–] QuizzaciousOtter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's not that simple and transparent actually. Wikipedia doesn't really need those donations to operate. They have money reserves for many years of expenses. I don't have a great source right now but this article looks decent. I didn't read the whole thing though.

[–] PmMeFrogMemes@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Gotcha, it's another anti-European (and anti-USA), anti-male, quasi-Marxist organization. This is what your donations to Wikipedia are going to. Wikipedia spends more money on left-wing causes than actually running an encyclopedia, and by a very long-shot.

Well shit, I guess I'll start donating

[–] QuizzaciousOtter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I see nothing wrong with that.

I just think it's fair to say the way they ask for donations is at least a little bit disingenuous.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago

I came here to say both of those things about the Internet Archive, but I also hope both of those orgs get tons of donations regularly because I wouldn't want to live in a world without them

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I just pay the 52$ once a year and know I've done my part for knowledge.

[–] Inaminate_Carbon_Rod@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

You know what?

I’m gonna start doing that.

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

It's not just the spam, there is other enshittification like the endless co-option with AI companies and private info disclosure (aka surveillance capitalism) under the self-serving excuse of being anonymized or aggregated.

[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 4 points 1 week ago

Just found these custom ad block filters. Seems to be working so far

wikipedia.org##.nag-trigger
wikipedia.org###centralNotice
wikipedia.org##[id$=“banner-nag”]
wikipedia.org###frb-inline
wikipedia.org##.cn-fundraising
[–] threeduck@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago

You can login and it'll stop with the pop ups for a year.