Enshittification

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What is enshittification?

The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source

The lifecycle of Big Internet

We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.

Embrace, extend and extinguish

We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.

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YouTube is experimenting with server-side ads (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Dju to c/enshittification

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Apparently this was a compromise with music publishers, which is why YouTube Music is force bundled with it. They insisted that if YouTube was going to have a premium service it had to pay out music licensing because so much music is already on YouTube.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Well that sounds like an issue between YouTube and music publishers. It doesn't change the fact that it's a ripoff. They could just add a lower tier that only removes ads from non-music videos for like $2-3/mo.