Enshittification

1628 readers

2 users here now

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.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

hydra

982

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

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Dju to c/enshittification

363 comments fedilink hide all child comments

https://fosstodon.org/@sponsorblock/112603139898164385

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] jorp 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's fairly easy to block any user access to video buffers using DRM

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I am 100% fine with letting it play realtime in the background, having a plugin record that like ye olde VCR, and then skipping adds manually.

[–] jorp 1 points 6 months ago

You typically can't record DRM content, you might be able to crack HDMI security and record that way.

Hardware DRM doesn't expose decrypted video data to anything in the host operating system