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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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All this enshittification might be good for me. I think i might start reading more books instead of watching youtube. Fuck you google, I'll never buy yt premium nor watch you ads.
Yeah that's what I did when reddit shit the bed. I'm spending the free time with books and getting back into gaming. It's an improvement really.
I can't point to any one hobby that truly picked up my reddit time, but I do feel like everything I'm doing in its place is more productive
They'll put ads in books too.
You do know physical books exist, dont you? :) I did not say ebook.
They have physical books that supplement the printing costs with ads.
Libraries still exist for now. Take advantage of them and maybe they won't all get shut down.
library books are still physical books that sometimes have ads in them to supplement thecost of printing. they don't get conjured up by librarian mages.
insert gif here
Be a lot cooler if they did
Those aren't super intrusive. It's not a loud ad that has to load, yell at you and slows down getting to the content I question, and printed ads in books don't disrupt a music listening session by playing shitty ad music between songs as you're getting a specific mood on. Print ads don't bug me the way web and video ads do
Many physical books have ads in the beginning and end. I would dare to say all. At the very least, a small "banner" ad for the publisher on one page.
Do you have to watch it for 30 seconds before you're allowed to turn the page? Does it pop up every 5 pages and can't be skipped?
Lol sorry, are advertisements that aren't intrusive not considered advertisements to you??? Maybe that mindset is why the internet is unusable without an ad blocker..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising
I still think you dont know the difference between a magazine and a book, and that scares me tbh.
Genuinely asking, why won’t you ever buy yt premium?
Not OP, but I would definitely pay for premium if they offered a lower cost version that was only ad-free YouTube. But I won't pay when they justify the higher cost with forced bundling of other services I am not interested in and have no use for, e.g., YouTube Music.
$13.99/mo is pretty steep, and realistically I'd have to get it for my wife too which effectively doubles the price and would make it the most expensive streaming service I've ever subscribed to (behind SeriusXM which at least has to finance literal satellites in space and delivers me radio when I'm in dead zones with no cell towers). More than my budget right now will allow for sure (I just cancelled every subscription after rechecking my budget)