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YouTube is experimenting with server-side ads
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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
We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.
We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.
I am not sure if this applies here as they technically kept the service the same as it was before. Bait and switch is more different and not over a long time.
You are technically correct. The term for Google was doing is "dumping."
I think, dumping is the first part of what we discussed, then there's the second part where you can set an arbitrary price or do other unfair things because you've become effectively a monopoly.
But the public opinion clearly showed me that I shouldn't interfere with this discussion ๐