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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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This is about greed and excessive ads, not a complete unwillingness to admit that platforms need a form of income to run.
When platforms go too far, people pushback. That should be a sign for YT that their advertising strategies are unsustainable and they need to make them less offensive and dusruptive to users.
Not everything done to maximize profit is excusable. People are entitled to draw a line when greed goes too far.
Can you show me how much profit Youtube had in 2023? You seem to know this, because you base your whole argument on it.
$31.5 billion in revenue in 2023. [Source]
This doesn't include subscriptions, which accpunt for around another $10-12 billion.
The company is worth hundreds of billions. So, no, I don't think they're suffering from ad blockers.
Ah yes, the good ol' revenue is just a synonym to profit. Classic.
Ah the ol' I have no real argument here and have no idea why I'm actually whiteknighting for a multibillion dollar corporation so I'll just act skeptical regardless of what's said.
Lol. Okay revenue=profit guy. You've said enough.