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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Dju@lemmy.world to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Okay, so what we now need is a browser plugin that skips ahead 15 or 30 seconds, mapped to a hotkey.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

On mobile.

Because on desktop, you can just tap your arrow keys a couple of times. Skipping around a video on a mobile device with nothing but a touch screen -- which is where the vast majority of users are viewing -- is a pain in the ass.

So yeah. Just put a Big Red Button in the corner for people to press. Skip.

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[–] Mango@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Imagine if we all just dropped YouTube on the spot and YouTube bit the dust. They wouldn't be giving away all their ad pushing software to a competitor, so the competitor would just be better for not having it.

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[–] andri@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

So is it over? 😭

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