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 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Dju@lemmy.world to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They absolutely will. There are far more people (and probably smarter people to boot) working on blocking their shit than there are people at Google working on making it unblockable.

This is an arms race where they will win the occasional battle, but always lose the war.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Introducing our new surveillance-based, dynamically generated, native sponsored video ads with mandatory interactive minigame engagement.

Careful - if we ever detect evasion, that's a lifetime IP ban.

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Careful - if we ever detect evasion, that's a lifetime IP ban.

And lose out on any potential future profits? Probably not. Especially if the IP is dynamic.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Dissidence detected. Terminating.