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this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2024
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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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You don't have to watch YouTube.
The issue is that there is a LOT of content there that you can't really get anywhere else. These "just don't use it" responses aren't ever helpful. I think we can agree that this kind of enshitification is a problem. Dismissing it as a non-issue doesn't do anything to hold anyone to account.
Ohhh nooo someone forced you to watch a minute long ad. How could you ever endure life after that
If it was one minute in a lifetime no one would complain.
But that's beside the point. What we are discussing here is that it will break extensions compatibility, downloaders like yt-dlp, and maybe even youtube-links with timestamps.
Are there any good alternatives for YouTube? I seriously don't know.
You could read a book. That's a good alternative
Its like saying, instead of eating an apple you could eat a pear. Those are two completely different things.
Who needs video on the internet? Could've saved the star wars kid a lot of pain of we'd realized that from the start