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YouTube is experimenting with server-side ads
(lemmy.world)
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.
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.