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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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Took me less than a minute of googling to find "hey, I'm paying for premium, why am I seeing adverts?" and it turns out there are a whole pile of exceptions that means YT can show you ads even when you're paying them not to.
I personally have had premium for ~3 years and I’ve never seen an ad. Sounds like FUD to me. I can’t believe I’m defending Google of all companies, I no longer use any of their products including Gmail, Search & Maps.
But nothing comes close to YouTube, it’s just them and a bunch of also-rans, and it’s literally the only streaming service I pay for because it simply cannot be replicated in any other way.