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 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Dju@lemmy.world to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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[–] 4am@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Twitch did it already, it’s not impossible

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

and twitch is still adblockable. it does look harder though, it bugs out sometimes. i'm sure there will be a great solution, there always is.

and fuck google while i'm at it, adblocking is only growing because of how egregious ads are getting.

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, definitely not impossible. I had to install some TamperMonkey scripts to get Twitch adblock working, but it works.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

oh tell us about the script you use!