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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[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Inject the ad into the stream making it indistinguishable from the video.

That, luckily, is completely illegal over here.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

I meant indistinguishable to the software. If the ad comes from the same source, and doesn't inhibit playback controls (such as fast forward), then it is significantly more difficult for an add-on to block it. Of course that would mean users can just fast forward if they don't want to watch it.