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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[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How does sponsorblock does it, then?

[–] ByteWelder@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Users can mark videos and submit that content. Users can vote on other users’ marking of content. It won’t work if YT streams the ads in if they randomly change the timestamp at which the ad(s) start.

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Yup! Oh, I know how sponsorblock does it, but the question was more about highlighting that it's theoretically possible. Unless they do what you describe.