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 Premium is getting a big price hike internationally (www.androidpolice.com)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by LuuTuyen to c/enshittification

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Google is doing scummy things, Literally 2024

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

yawns in DNS-based Google blocking

[–] okamiueru 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Next they'll inject ads into the video steam, at random locations with random ordering and length.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I have all of Google completely blocked and I don’t care to watch content from YouTube. It’s a nonissue for me, but sometimes I’ll use Invidious if I really need to — so the random ads would definitely suck.