Oh man I’m gonna not pay for it harder than ever!
this post was submitted on 24 Sep 2024
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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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Bro they can charge $1000 a month I don't care.
Go after the whales like mobile games do.
That's like the 4th one in less than a year? Fucking cunts.
That's because everyone is doing multiple price hikes a year and people don't care.
conveniently coincides with them rendering Invidious and Piped virtually unusable.
yawns in DNS-based Google blocking
Next they'll inject ads into the video steam, at random locations with random ordering and length.
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.
I nearly bought premium for the family this year, decided to show everyone how to install breve browser instead, and no issues so far.
The way I look at it is the YouTube Capitalism profit line must go up… the longer we all delay that from happening the better, and if it is expensive in the future I can offset it against my savings today, or subscribe to Nebula, or some other platform if they really take the piss with the price.
Like clockwork, In every post about blocking ads is a ad for Brave, a company with a pretty sus history
Why is that?
Brave is a crypto cult. Brave people really really love their crypto bro browser.
Can you expand on this? Is Brave doing any shady stuff by default?
Long story short:
- Brave isn’t trying to block ads. They just want to replace ads with their crypto powered system. It’s just that none uses it.
- The founder is a jerk who is anti LGBT. Not just passively but actively.
- Brave pushes itself as a chrome alternative. It’s not. It’s just chrome with a fancy skin. If people want to support web diversity Brave does not help.
Thanks for the details…
if I don’t use their rewards program and they still block ads then it’s a win-win for me.
A founder with despicable views is not great, but again by using his product but not the monitization features I’m not really contributing anything to him.
Chrome with a fancy skin that blocks ads… is there another trusted browser that does the same thing with chrome level security that I can try? Even Edge is Chrome with a fancy skin now.
Just to clarify I do not browse with Brave, I only use it as a launcher for YouTube.
Fair. I would consider Firefox as well. With uBlock Origin you can use YouTube ad free too. And you help increase web diversity. Win win.
I use Firefox for general browsing and clear all cookies and history every shutdown. The problem I had was I had been rotating UBO, ABP, AdBlock, ghostry, Twitch Ad Block etc. and they all kept messing up browsing, YouTube, or Twitch in one way or another.
Brave was the only one to not fail on YouTube at any time in the last year, so I kept it just for YT.
Fair. I would say you don’t need most of those. Just try uBO alone. Add others as needed. But realistically you should not have to. All you should have to do is add a block list to uBO.
I did I only ever enabled one at a time. They all had their issues with Twitch and YT blocking though. I’ve not found a solution for Twitch that works well, so I just sub to the occasional streamer now.
Lol- I even spelt it wrong… what are you talking about? Do you mean Brave rewards for allowing advertising?
I don’t have any ads enabled afaik, wouldn’t even know how to turn that on. Never been interested in crypto, only interested in ad-free browsing.
If you have some info about nefarious things Brave is doing by default let me know.
Newpipe, Revanced and adblockers my beloved
Invidious on top!
But fear not! For they shall blame pirates for this!
The new android police logo sucks